Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani to open 150 eateries in Europe
Eyal Shani, the Israeli king of pita bread and cauliflower, is set to open 150 restaurants in Europe over the next five years, according to local media reports.
The celebrity chef behind the super successful Miznon chain of...
New survey reveals Israel’s Mizrachim Jewish majority overlooked by school textbooks
The majority of Jews in contemporary Israel are descendants of Jews who were expelled or fled from countries under Muslim rule between 1948 and 1967. Generally referred to as Mizrachim (from the East), they include...
First permanent Holocaust exhibit comes to Muslim-majority Indonesia
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem opened the first permanent exhibition in Indonesia about the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II, reported Ynet.
It is one of Yad Vashem’s “Ready2Print” exhibitions aimed at...
Yeshiva University unveils $50,000 Sacks Book Prize to inspire Jewish thought
Erica Brown, vice provost for values and leadership and inaugural director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, announces the creation of Yeshiva University’s Sacks Book Prize, funded by the...
How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and The Problems They Have Caused Them –...
Prof. Weiser discusses (in English) the origin of Ashkenazic Jewish names and focuses on the bureaucratic issues historically associated with keeping track of and reconciling Jewish naming practices. The first of a three-part Winter...
More than 15,000 Holocaust survivors passed away last year
Over the past year, 15,324 Holocaust survivors died in Israel, according to data published on Wednesday by the country’s Social Equality Ministry.
According to the report, published by the ministry’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority on...
‘Shema Yisrael’ pendants found in archaeological digs at Sobibor death camp
Three pendants inscribed with the “Shema Yisrael” prayer and depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments have been discovered in archaeological excavations in the Sobibor extermination camp over the past decade, the Israel Antiquities...
Magnificent Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem
When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...
Yad Vashem chair urges Christian world to keep Holocaust Remembrance Day
In his first appearance before an exclusively Christian audience as the new chairman of Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan this week urged the Christian world to turn International Holocaust Remembrance Day every Jan. 27 into...
Remembering Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan: NCSY republishes collection of his selected works
On the occasion of the 39th yartzheit of Rabbi Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan, NCSY – the national youth movement of the Orthodox Union – has launched the NCSY Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Library. The reissuance of Rabbi...