Leonid Pasternak, Father of Boris, Wrestled with his Jewishness
Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of portraiture and book illustrations, went down in history in the shadow of his son Boris, a...
Bernie Marcus, billionaire Home Depot founder and Jewish philanthropist, 95
Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the Jewish billionaire founder of Home Depot who donated extensively to Jewish causes, died in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 95.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called Marcus "a good friend...
Still learning of liberators, all these years later
Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
Some memories live forever …
Doesn’t it seem like yesterday when your first child was born? To me, it does, and decades later, you recall the excitement—more appropriately called nervousness—that had been building as the “due date” approached. Lamaze birth classes are...
German soccer fans pay tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Supporters of Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen paid tribute to murdered Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Saturday afternoon before their team's friendly match against FC Bayern Munich.
Fans in the stands at Weser Stadium in...
Jewish comedian wins Emmy for HBO special about New York sit-down with neo-Nazis
Emotion overwhelmed comedian Alex Edelman while accepting an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for his “Just for Us” HBO comedy special as part of the awards show on Sunday night.
Standing on...
‘Defender of Israel Award’ goes to three men whon willingly put their lives on...
During the attacks and atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7, Elchanan Kalmanson, his brother Menachem Kalmanson and their nephew, Itiel, drove towards the Gaza Strip under heavy rocket fire,...
Portuguese officials pay tribute to historic Jewish leader
The International Observatory for Human Rights and B’nai B’rith Portugal paid tribute last night, at the headquarters of B’nai B’rith, to the first chief rabbi of the kingdom, Yaish ben Yahya, whose cooperation in...
Shoah survivor and psychologist Ruth Westheimer, ‘Dr. Ruth,’ 96
With her German accent, wit and warmth, therapist Ruth Westheimer—known affectionately as “Dr. Ruth”—helped romantic couples better understand their intimate relationships for more than 40 years.
She died in Manhattan on Friday at about 11:30...
Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London
In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life.
Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...