Their Stories Foundation to create films about the Holocaust
Their Stories Foundation is a new nonprofit organization whose mission is to create films that tell stories of the Holocaust and related topics, as well as to educate future generations about this traumatic time...
“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by...
"Vu di velt hot nor an ek" (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children's poems in Yiddish and English.
Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her favorite children's poems by legendary...
Save The Music Presents: Marie Laforêt – “Berceuse” 1968 (Raisins secs et amandes) –...
Raisins secs et amandes (en yiddish ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, Rozhinkes mit Mandlen) est une berceuse juive, tirée de la comédie musicale Shulamith, écrite en yiddish par Abraham Goldfaden en 1880. Elle est devenue si...
Simchat Torah Hakafot with Nova survivors and hostage families
In Israel, Shmeni Atzeret/Simchat Torah ended on Thursday night with large public celebrations. In Jerusalem, hundreds danced to live music at the Western Wall Plaza, Liberty Bell Park and various other sites.
Outside of Israel,...
Simchat Torah: Should We Dance or Cry?
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the devastating attack on Simchat Torah, a day celebrated as one of the most joyous in the Jewish calendar, we are confronted with a profound paradox....
New York exhibition to re-create Anne Frank’s annex
Anne Frank House)
The Anne Frank House, one of the most visited historical sites in Europe, announced the upcoming opening of “Anne Frank The Exhibition” in New York City. For the first time in history, it will...
Zamir Choral Foundation launches program to train Jewish choir conductors
A $500,000 donation to the Zamir Choral Foundation from husband and wife Robert and Vicki Lieberman aims to teach conductors of Jewish choral music.
Named after Matthew Lazar, the foundation’s founder and director, between 12 and 15...
With eyes on winning war, building third Jewish Temple, Ark replica shown in Jerusalem
Areplica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred vessel that was the First Temple’s central fixture, was displayed in Jerusalem on Sunday evening,...
Snapshots of Sukkot
Sukkot is a week-long holiday in Israel (as opposed to eight days in the Diaspora), with the first and last days as Yom Tov and national holidays in which businesses are closed. This year,...
Sukkot and Sukkah Songs
The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—is the holiday when we expose ourselves to the elements in covered huts, commemorating G‑d's sheltering our ancestors as...