Spain seeks descendants of Hungarian Jews saved from Nazis by diplomat
The Spanish government released the names of Hungarian Jews who evaded Nazi persecution with the help of a Spanish diplomat in an effort to find their descendants and share their stories with the world.
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz...
550 Bnei Menashe from India visit Western Wall with Israel’s chief rabbi
Some 550 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community who recently immigrated to Israel and now live in the Galilee visited the Western Wall on Wednesday for the first time, together with the Ashkenazi...
Kirk Douglas’s quintessential American Jewish life
Actor Kirk Douglas may have been the last surviving star from the golden age of Hollywood. So his death this week at the age of 103 is a chance for fans of cinema to...
New survey reveals Israel’s Mizrachim Jewish majority overlooked by school textbooks
The majority of Jews in contemporary Israel are descendants of Jews who were expelled or fled from countries under Muslim rule between 1948 and 1967. Generally referred to as Mizrachim (from the East), they include...
Surveys explore Jewish life in South Florida, with some surprising results
How many Jews live in South Florida? Where do they come from? And what do they need?
Two new surveys, completed in May, are seeking answers to these questions and will determine whether South Florida...
Ruth Pearl, mother of slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, dies at 85
Ruth Pearl, the mother of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, died on July 20 at the age of 85.
In 2002, Ruth Pearl and her husband, Judea Pearl, were thrust into international attention after Al-Qaeda...
Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon
The octogenarian former president of the about 30-strong Jewish community in Lebanon, who had sought to conserve the abandoned Magen Avraham synagogue in central Beirut, died on Dec. 27 and was buried the same...
What it’s like to be the rabbi of the rainforest
Nestled deep in the Amazon rainforest lies one of most isolated Jewish communities in the world. Located where the Solimões and Negro rivers join to form the Amazon—1,500 kilometers upstream from the Atlantic and...
Esther Rantzen: On a mission to save our children
Jewish teenagers are more at risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts as a result of exam stress, than those in wider society, according to Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen.
Dame Esther claims that community...
Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner, 95, died last Monday
Renowned and prolific Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner died on Monday morning at the age of 95 at his home in Kibbutz Merchavia.
Ruebner was born as Kurt Erich in 1924 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He grew...