Daily Archives: July 20, 2017

The Chief Rabbi made his concern over the Dweck affair clear when he spoke out last month. Rabbi Mirvis described the affair as “divisive and damaging”, and it was apparent that his intention was to bring the matter to a...

My oldest son graduated high-school in June. Now he is headed off to college–after a gap year studying Russian in Moldova, which my Soviet-born parents are not ecstatic about, as I wrote here. Back in 2015,...

Members of Hungary’s Jewish community expressed deep disappointment with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday evening, saying a speech by the Israeli premier at a Budapest Jewish center catered mainly to the Hungarian government and...

A recent storm in Poland led to the destruction of many of the graves in the Great Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw. A visitor told the haredi newspaper Hamevasser, "This scene is terrible. Thousands of Jewish graves, including...

A brief glossary of important and commonly used Yiddish words and phrases. Bissel (bisl)— A little bit, as in “I just want to eat a bissel right now.” Bubbe (bubby) — Grandmother Chutzpah —Nerve, extreme arrogance, brazen presumption, confidence, as...

Today marks the 125th birthday of Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, the diplomat known as the “Mexican Schindler” who is said to have saved 40,000 lives during WWII while serving as Mexico’s Consul General in France. Born...

The shop frontage of an historic kosher butchers in Liverpool is to be preserved following the award of almost £300,000 in National Lottery funding. P. Galkoff Family Butchers was opened in 1908 by Percy Galkoff,...

Families, mark your calendars: You don’t want to miss “Boker Tov at the Shore” at the JCC on Sunday, July 23, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Led by locallyborn artist and musician Rebecca Schoffer, the PJ...

Jewish actress Hannah Benitez stars in the one-act drama "Bad Jews," running now through Aug. 13 by Main Street Players at the Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes. The story is centered on the death...

De entre las sinagogas de la komunidad sefaradi de Yerushalayim merese una mension el chiko i ermozo kal “Olei Bursa”, yamado por todos “el kal de los bursalis” i ke se topa en la...