Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education
Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
Unearthed: 2,500-year-old silver coin from Kingdom of Judah
An extremely rare silver coin dated to the Persian period (6th–5th centuries BCE) was recently discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation in the Judean Hills, providing evidence for the earliest known use of coins...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor
The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year.
On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...
Talking trees
I remember once teasing a friend whose birthday is on Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees. I told him: “Make like a tree and grow up!”
Tu B’Shevat, literally the 15th of the Hebrew month...
Those who can keeping the day for those who can’t: Shabbat 4 Soldiers
When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away.
Now in their second year of marriage, the couple had been...
On the 75th Anniversary of Israel’s First Free Elections
Inherent in the recent outrageous charges that Israel has an apartheid system, or is committing genocide is that somehow Israel is not a true democracy while nothing could be further from the truth. This...
Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film
A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror.
In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
A Klezmer Adventure in old Bessarabia
Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure by Yale Strom, with illustrations by Emil Singer-Fuer and translations to Yiddish by Nikolaj Olniansky; Hoor, Sweden: Olniansky Tekst Farlag publisher © 2023; ISBN 9789198-721980; 44 pages in English;...
Baruch Spinoza: The Universal Anti-Hero
In his Theological-Political Treatise, published in 1670 and banned in 1674, Spinoza wrote: “In a free country every man is allowed to think in his own way and to say all that he thinks.” It...