Hadassah, Jewish Women’s Archive and Uprooted Collaborate to Strip Away Taboos Associated with Infertility...
With a new initiative called YOUR FAMILY-BUILDING STORY, Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (HWZOA), the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) and Uprooted: A Jewish Communal Response to Fertility Journeys (Uprooted) are joining forces to strip away the taboos that often accompany family...
‘If you build it, they will come’: The blessings of the holiday sukkah
Some people take the commandment to beautify a mitzvah very seriously indeed, especially when it comes to their sukkah.
It’s been nearly three decades since Len Upin took brush in hand and, using acrylics, painted a...
New Jewish Documentation Center, Containing 100 Years of Jewish Life in Mexico City, Opens...
A catastrophic 1985 earthquake that killed thousands of people in Mexico City and destroyed the (back-then) Jewish neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa also left the archives of the Ashkenazi community in a state of...
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33,771 murdered Jews: The Babi Yar nightmare
77 years ago, Dina Levina was at Babi Yar, a ravine just outside of Kiev, Ukraine, where she witnessed one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust.
The massacre was the largest mass-killing under the...
James Caan, best known for role of Sonny in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82
Santino (“Sonny”) Corleone was a hot head whose life ended in a hail of bullets.
James Caan, the Jewish actor who played the iconic role in “The Godfather,” lived much longer than that, though was...
New website lists events and resources celebrating Israel’s 75th year
The new website “Celebrating Israel at 75” is a resource providing information about communal celebrations of Israel’s 75th anniversary in the United States.
The site also features information about the founding of Israel, as well as graphics...
Meet Carlos Lopez-Cantera: Florida’s first Jewish governor (for five days)
With Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceding his re-election bid on Sunday to Republican Gov. Rick Scott, the state will have its first Jewish governor on an interim basis for five days when Scott is sworn...
Speakers of Esperanto, which has Jewish origins, to convene in Italy
Between July 29 and Aug. 5, some 2,000 scholars and enthusiasts of Esperanto—the 136-year-old artificial language with Jewish roots—are expected to descend on Turin in northern Italy.
The World Esperanto Association (UEA), which has held...
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On the approaching night of shared candles
A benevolent calendar coincidence, occurring every few years, will bring us on Dec. 24 to the shared lighting of solstice calendars by both Christians and Jews. The solar and lunar calendar cycles have intertwined,...
Yiddish radio show commemorates 75th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
די וואָך איז געוואָרן 75 יאָר זינט די סאָוועטן האָבן באַפֿרײַט אוישוויץ. כּדי צו באַערן די קרבנות פֿונעם חורבן און די וואָס האָבן איבערגעלעבט דעם נאַצישן גיהנום, האָבן אַ צאָל פּרעזידענטן, פּרעמיערן און דיפּלאָמאַטן...