Yad Vashem exhibit details death march of 1,300 Jewish women in January 1945
To mark Women’s History Month, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem is featuring an online exhibit titled “The Death March to Volary,” depicting the fate of Jewish women forced on a...
No need to make Purim a whole Megillah!
Purim is quite a holiday. During the chanting of the Megillah, the noise level can be deafening. Young and old shout aloud—hissing, pounding tables, stamping feet, whirling groggers and boo-ing when Haman is mentioned, ...
In Los Angeles, United Hatzalah raises $5 million with help from Jay Leno
Thanks to the generous donations of contributors and the support of celebrity comedian Jay Leno, the first annual Los Angeles Gala of Friends of United Hatzalah on Thursday raised enough money to buy 100...
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...
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Jewish Agency offers tour of Mexican Jewish sites
The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced its first-ever mission to Mexico, May 22-27, in order to gain a more thorough perspective about Jewish life in the United States’ neighboring country.
As the American Jewish...
Jews and Muslims remember victims of 1992 Khojaly genocide in Azerbaijan
The American Sephardi Federation and the Muslim American Leadership Alliance of New York held a special event last week remembering victims of the 1992 Khojaly genocide in Azerbaijan.
The ceremony was in memory of the 613...
Chassidic rocket scientist overcame Soviet oppression to guide Israel’s space launch to the moon
One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and private space programs.
Mathematician...
Jewish Agency to provide loans to employees seeking child surrogacy overseas
The Jewish Agency for Israel has decided to grant financial loans to employees of the organization who decide to search for a pregnancy surrogate overseas, becoming the first Israeli governmental organization to offer financial assistance...
Special initiative to map and preserve historic European Jewish cemeteries
A new initiative to map historic Jewish cemeteries will utilize a drone to fly over 1,500 endangered burial sites.
According to Time magazine, the German-based European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative will feature a team of drone operators surveying...
Philanthropist, GOP donor Sheldon Adelson undergoing cancer treatment
Jewish philanthropist, Republican billionaire donor and Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder and CEO Sheldon Adelson has been undergoing cancer treatment and not been at his firm’s office since the end of December, said one...