Monthly Archives: July 2020

Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night....

Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July -- English translations provided -- Performed by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Yiddish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxCkt-HsHw "America the Beautiful" in Yiddish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVVNE9wcg4 "America" (Yiddish song about Mount Rushmore) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__Ggt3XUc0 "Fourth of July" (a.k.a. Zman...

Thursday, July 2 | 4:30pm (EDT) Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series See all lectures » Admission: Free Registration is required. REGISTER  Miriam Udel | Delivered in English. View the Program & Bibliography Scholars are only beginning to consider the corpus of nearly one thousand extant...

The Jerusalem Municipality and Nefesh B’Nefesh have just announced plans to build a full-service 2,200-square-meter Aliyah Center in the heart of the city. A piece of land across from the Supreme Court building has officially...

A ground-breaking collaborative effort to create a unified listing of all Hebrew books in Italy has been announced by the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy (UCEI), the Rome National Central Library (BNCR) and...

It is a just cause, poisoned by anti-Semitism. The drive to end racism merits all our participation, and we should all stand against the anti-Semitic acts and attitudes that have attached themselves to this unexpected...

Is there any red line that the Anti-Defamation League won’t cross in order to pursue its current agenda that prioritizes partisan politics over combating anti-Semitism? In the five years since Jonathan Greenblatt succeeded longtime...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said on Wednesday that the government’s plan to extend sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria was unlikely to be carried out as scheduled. “It seems unlikely that anything will...

Israel was created by world powers to solve the “Jewish problem,” and Muslims should not carry out terrorist attacks against European countries and the United States, but rather against the Israelis directly, Malaysia’s former...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Israel not to extend its sovereignty to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in a front-page Hebrew op-ed published by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Wednesday. Calling himself a “passionate...