Wearing tefillin may prevent damage from heart attacks
Wearing tefillin may have life-saving cardiovascular benefits for both men and women, according to University of Cincinnati researchers.
Tefillin, or phylacteries, are small leather boxes containing biblical passages on parchment scrolls. There are two in...
Documentary on largest-ever gift to Israel to screen at international film festival
A documentary that reconstructs the lives of Holocaust survivors Lottie and Howard Marcus, who made the largest-ever charitable donation to an institution based in Israel, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival...
AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust
Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International...
Renowned Holocaust survivor and educator to be awarded one of Poland’s highest honors
Legendary Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg will be posthumously awarded one of Poland’s highest honors this Friday in New York.
The Polish Consulate of New York will be presenting Mosberg’s family with the Great Cross of...
Nazi children’s board game ‘Jews out!’ on display in new exhibit
A new exhibit at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University features the Nazi-era children’s board game Juden Raus!, or “Jews out!”
The exhibit comes on the...
‘The images will stay with me for the rest of my life’: Warsaw Ghetto...
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews revealed on Monday new-found images of the Nazis mercilessly putting down the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Revolt.
Captured in secret by a Polish firefighter while German forces set...
Holocaust objects to be displayed at German parliament
An exhibition of Holocaust-era items from the collections of Yad Vashem whose stories are intertwined with Jews from Germany will open in the Bundestag next week, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jerusalem-based...
Anne Frank and Me: Three Weeks and 3,600 Miles Apart
Although I had no close relatives who were victims — and it wasn’t until years later that I learned that Nazis had hanged an uncle of my wife’s by his tallis — I was obsessed by...
A new post-Soviet aliyah
Hannah Yarutskaya made aliyah as a 9th-grader in 2015 from Mariupol–the Ukrainian city destroyed by Russian occupiers in the spring of 2022.
After serving as a lone soldier in Israel’s armed forces, Yarutskaya continues to...
Shas Party spiritual leader Shimon Baadani dies at 94
Rabbi Shimon Baadani, the president of the Shas Party’s Council of Torah Sages, died on Wednesday morning at Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer Hospital) in Ramat Gan at the age of 94.
Baadani suffered from...