Yoel Levy to run NYC marathon in Batman costume for Bibas family, Holocaust survivors
Marathoner Yoel Levy, known as “the Jewish fitness coach” on social media, who is based in Manchester, England, plans to lace up his running sneakers and don his Batman costume once again for the New...
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, artist Michael Smuss dies at 99
Michael Smuss, one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who later became an artist to process his Holocaust trauma, has died in Israel at the age of 99.
Smuss, who famously...
Sandy Koufax jersey up for auction at $1 million estimate
A signed, game-worn Sandy Koufax jersey is up for auction with an estimated value of more than $1 million.
The listing at the Dallas-based Heritage Auctions notes that the No. 32 Los Angeles Dodgers jersey from 1966,...
Chess world stunned by death of Jewish prodigy Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Naroditsky, a grandmaster who rose from child prodigy status to become among America’s most significant figures in competitive chess, died Monday at 29, the Associated Press reported.
The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky...
Tel Aviv University economist among 3 Nobel Prize laureates
Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de...
Award-winning photojournalist launches first book, ‘October 7th, Bearing Witness’
Photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel, winner of the 2024 “Local Testimony Photograph of the Year Award,” announced today the release of her first book, October 7th, Bearing Witness.
Now available in stores and online, it documents the...
Some things are non-negotiable … right, Sandy Koufax?
Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax—one of the best pitchers in the history of the sport—is ironically best known by many for not pitching. It was 60 years ago on Oct. 7, 1965, that Koufax, a...
Bringing new life to Israel: In memory of Adi Baruch
When 20-year-old Adi Baruch started working as a wedding photographer after completing her compulsory Israeli military service, she told her parents that she chose that field because it brought new life to Israel.
She was...
Aron Bielski: The Last of the Holocaust Hero Brothers
Aron Bielski passed away just before Rosh Hashanah. With his death, the last of the heroic Bielski brothers — who led the partisans, rescued Jews, and fought the Nazis — is gone. He was...
Rabbi Berel Wein: Recalling his Zionist opposition to the two-state nightmare
“The more I read and study Jewish history, the clearer it becomes that there is an Author and Planner, Who guides Israel to its destiny.”
— Rabbi Berel Wein (October 1990)
Rabbi Berel Wein, a Chicago-born pulpit...