Jewish People

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out....

For years, there has been a debate about whether Zionist hero Joseph Trumpeldor actually uttered the famous declaration attributed to him moments before he died of his wounds defending the Jewish settlement at Tel...

SOLANA BEACH, California — While Professor Harold Hill may have been a part of Tanna Frederick’s formative years, the college graduate who left Iowa, was bound for glory in New York or Los Angeles where...

On Nov. 25, 1942, a five-paragraph article, buried on page 10 of The New York Times, confirmed the deaths at that time of 2 million Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe and warned of the perilous plight...

It begins in a world now gone, lying at the borders of Ruthenia, Bukovina and Galicia, forgotten places that were the glory of the Habsburg Empire and of European Judaism. Seventy years later, all...

This past week, President Reuven Ruvi Rivlin - ראובן רובי ריבלין ,met with the winners of the Katz Prize. Among the winners is Rabbi Asher (Osher) Zelig Weiss, the posek for Shaare Zedek Medical...

On May 18, 1965, the Israeli Eli Cohen, recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times, was executed by Syria on espionage charges. Eli Cohen was born on December 26, 1924 in...

*EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) on Monday honored the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as part of the celebration of May as Jewish American Heritage Month. *Our thanks to Eva Trieger who spotted the video above...

Janusz Korczak His life, his achievements In the year 1878 – it might have been a year later as the father was not known for looking after his paperwork in time – Janusz Korczak, whose name...

“If I live to be 100, there will still be so many things unsaid,” Kirk Douglas wrote to his wife, Anne, in 1958, four years after their marriage in Las Vegas. After marking his 100th...