World Jewish Congress committed to China’s relationship with Israel and Jewish people, says WJC...
HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - The Israel Council on Foreign Relations, which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, co-hosted Tuesday a symposium on the growing role that China is playing on the world...
Now online: Never-before seen footage of 1900s Jewish Britain
The images tumble from the screen, in glorious Technicolor or flickering black-and-white. The quality is highly variable and so is the subject matter, ranging from the utterly banal to the high-flown.
And yet, there is...
Artists After the Escape: Heinrich Heine — Finding the freedom to write in France
As a young man, Heinrich Heine faced a hard question: homeland or freedom? Frustrated with censorship and anti-Semitism in Germany, the writer headed to Paris. There, he penned masterpieces but always longed for home.
The...
Remembering the Jewish community of Baghdad
Described as “gripping” and “absorbing” by Peter Bradshaw, the The Guardian's chief film critic, Remember Baghdad reveals the untold story of Iraq, though the eyes of the Jews, Iraq’s first wave of refugees. From...
Yossel Rakover
La storya konta ke in las rovinas del ghetto de Varsovya se topo in medyo de piedras karbonizadas una botilya. Kontenya un testamento eskrito unas kuantas oras antes de la fin del ghetto.
Varsovya, el...
Jewish trove hidden from Nazis gives up its secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
The...
La vida del Aktor “Leonard Nimoy”
Famoso por su presentasión de un medio umano i medio Vulcano en el karakter de “Mr.Spock” en la seria titulada “Star Treck”, Nimoy viene de murir en Los Angeles a la edad de 83 anios. El...
The miracle of Soviet Jewry
The term Soviet Jewry is an oxymoron. According to the normal rules of history, there should be no such thing. By that logic there should be no such thing as the Jewish people either...
Bronx Jewish Historical Initiative Inducts Third Hall of Fame Class
On Wednesday, November 29, The Bronx Jewish Historical Initiative inducted its third Hall of Fame Class. The ceremony took place at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, which is located in the former Young...
Documentary resurrects memories of idyllic Greek Jewish community
Filmmaker Lawrence Russo needed to make the documentary Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria for one simple reason: to memorialize a vibrant interfaith community that was nearly forgotten after World War II.
“Whenever the subject of Greek...