European rabbis take to the streets in Ulm, Germany
BERLIN—Forty rabbis from all over Europe walked the streets of the German city of Ulm on Tuesday, a couple of days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, advised Jews against wearing kipot, or skullcaps, in...
Rethinking restitution: A case for Jewish dignity
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This is in stark contrast to other European Union states,...
Krakow street to be named after rabbi and 300 orphans murdered in the Holocaust
The city council in Krakow, Poland, has announced that a municipal street will be named next month after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, a caretaker of the Krakow ghetto orphanage.
During the liquidation of the orphanage...
The Greatest Jewish Generation
The Greatest Generation, that milestone generation which saved the world in the Second World War, is rapidly dwindling right before our eyes. The death of George H.W. Bush at age 92, the youngest Navy...
Conference in Kiev for JDC volunteers focuses on Jewish responsibility and identity
More than 250 Jewish volunteers and professionals from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s regional volunteer center network joined together in Kiev, Ukraine, for expert presentations, educational sessions and team-building exercises aimed at strengthening...
Leading German daily prints cutout kippah in solidarity with Jews
Days after Germany’s anti-Semitism czar said that Jews would be ill-advised to wear kippot in public in some parts of the country, one of the nation’s leading dailies printed a “do-it-yourself kippah” cutout on its front...
Rabbi speaks of communal strength to Carnegie Mellon graduates in Pittsburgh
Rabbi Shlomo Silverman, director of the campus Chabad center at Carnegie Mellon University and vice chairman of the Council of Religious Advisors at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered the invocation at this year’s commencement ceremony on May...
Israeli-American Council announces new chairman
The Israeli-American Council (IAC) announced on Thursday business leader and longstanding philanthropist Naty Saidoff as its new chairman.
Saidoff is a co-founder of the IAC and has served on the IAC’s board of directors since its...
Israeli ‘Artivism’ programs offer Eurovision-style cultural exchanges year-round
When Israeli singer and looping artist Netta Barzilai won the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Portugal last May, all of Israel was ecstatic. Beyond watching their native daughter win big on an international stage,...
‘It’s all for the Jewish people:” Four decades of the Jeff Seidel story
Jeff Seidel is a left-hander who cheerfully admits to having a terrible sense of direction. “It’s the worst,” he says with a grin. “I get lost coming out of the shower.”
But if there’s one...