New Jersey Jewish farming colony archive gets $24,500 grant to digitize materials
Stockton University’s Alliance Heritage Center has won a $24,500 grant to digitize the archives of the Alliance Colony, a Jewish farming community founded in southern New Jersey in the late 19th century.
The center’s archives include physical...
Chabad’s annual Kinus HaShluchos draws 4,000 women emissaries
From Feb. 8-13, some 4,000 shluchos, Chabad women emissaries, from more than 100 countries gathered in and around the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn for the annual Kinus HaShluchos, whose agenda included workshops, speeches and Shabbat gatherings. It...
Un artikulo en La Vara de 1939, avlando del teretemblo en Turkiya de akel...
El sigiente es un artikulo ke se puvliko en La Vara en desembre de 1939 kuando akontesio un dezastre paresido. Grasias a los esforzos del periodiko La Vara (el jurnal en Ladino de Nueva...
‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,’ new to Netflix, offers no glimpse of character’s ‘Jewish soul’
Crocodiles are not kosher. But the much-beloved protagonist—initially misunderstood as a villain—of Bernard Waber’s children’s books “The House on East 88th Street” and “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is arguably Jewish.
Waber, who wrote and illustrated the...
As storm batters Israel, Chabad program brings warmth to Holocaust survivors
With storm Barbara bringing freezing winds, rain and snow to Israel, over 200 volunteers braved the conditions to deliver portable heaters, blankets and prepared meals to 300 elderly and Holocaust survivors living in Jerusalem.
The...
90 Ukrainian Jewish refugees come home to Israel
Ninety Ukrainian Jewish refugees arrived in Israel on Wednesday to begin a new chapter of their lives, on a chartered flight made possible by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ).
The group joined...
Digitization of the papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade is now complete...
(New York, NY; Jerusalem, Israel) 6 February 2023 – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers...
Kosovo’s tiny Jewish community aims to punch above its size
It has been almost 15 years to the day since Kosovo, a landlocked country of 1.95 million north of Greece, declared independence on Feb. 17, 2008. Its Jewish community numbers just 35 to 50 people, but...
On Tu B’Shevat, let’s celebrate homeland and heartland
Ask any Hebrew school child what the food bokser is, and you’ll receive a description of what sounds like tree bark. But you’ll also see that the student understands that this nearly inedible annual treat comes...
La estorya de Purim fue el tema preferado de Rembrandt
La istorya de Esther fue el tema de munchos pintores olandezos en la istorya. Estas todas pinturas de los artistos esta trayendo al tino una kestion
“Deke los artistos ollandezos se enteresaron tanto en la...