In Greece, a city struggles to come to terms with its Jewish past
Walking through the bustling center of Thessaloniki, Greece, Hella Kounio Matalon points off to the distance.
“Most of the properties that we see on this road are former Jewish properties,” she said as she walked...
Should Jewish celebrities be wearing yellow stars?
In September 1939, while Nazi Germany invaded Central Poland and initiated World War II, Polish Jews were ordered to wear signifying markers on their clothing to identify them as such.
Germany was already steeped in...
5 holiday drinking games to get through the Jewish holidays
1. Rosh Hashanah
Welcome in 5778 the only way a Jewish family knows how to–with lots of food, chutzpah, and liquor. All New Year's resolutions about less lashon harah (did you see what Adam’s new girlfriend was...
Holby storyline gives rabbi her ‘Hollywood moment’
Leading Liberal rabbi Charley Baginsky has enjoyed her “Hollywood moment”, advising writers of the BBC’s medical soap, Holby City, on a Jewish plotline.
In reality, it was considerably more than a moment as her advisory role...
Community hopeful on Swiss Bill threatening kosher meat imports
The Swiss Jewish community expressed cautious optimism that a bill aimed at outlawing the importation of products made from animals that the legislation identifies as “mistreated” will not lead to a ban on bringing...
Meet Erin Davis, Fairy Godmother of The New York City Jewish Singles Scene
Erin Davis’s grandparents grew up in the same Polish village, were herded into the same ghetto, fell in love in hiding, and escaped together to a displaced person’s camp.
Erin Davis’s parents fell in love...
Will Israeli soccer embrace British-Jewish player?
British-Jewish striker Nick Blackman, who is currently playing for Derby County, was flown to Israel at the invitation of BMaccabi Tel Aviv to meet the team and examine the option of relocating to coastal...
‘U-bet’ we love sodas, egg creams and all things seltzer!
Ashkenazi Jews love seltzer.
Brooklyn used to be full of seltzer delivery men bringing soda siphons full of seltzer to Jewish families, picking up empty siphons from the previous week. Some Brooklynites still get their seltzer...
When the INS threatened a 2-year-old Jewish girl with deportation
A Philadelphia taxi driver, Sanford Jacobs, 21, and his wife, Louise, have been notified by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that they will have to take their 2-year-old daughter, Lesley, out of the...
A Dutch filmmaker searches for his Jewish roots
“My father, Marcel Bregstein, was a successful professor of civil law. He later became Rector of what was, at the time, Amsterdam Municipal University. My father forced me to study law. As a Jew,...