2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (431+ words) The move has inspired debate how to preserve Nazi history without glorifying it....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1408+ words) A trip bringing back Jews who left Poland during an antisemitic government campaign exposed a dark open wound in the country’s history....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (451+ words) Roma Pride has has become “itself an instrument of exclusion,” said a board member for Keshet Italia....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (521+ words) Note: This tribute is adapted from the writer’s introduction to the oral history of Rita Semel as part of the Oral History Project at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library and was originally written when she was a mere 99 years old. She…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (630+ words) Among the project caught in the dragnet was one about violence against women during the Holocaust....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1425+ words) (JTA) — Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It’s unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait — there is only one known film of Anne and her sister Margot. And this isn’t it....

3+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (655+ words) When Daniela Gerson met her future wife, Talia Inlender, in Los Angeles, neither knew their families had come from the same town in Poland. They later learned that their grandparents had even been neighbors. In “The Wanderers,” Gerson, who teaches…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (759+ words) Why did it take that long for San Francisco’s Jewish community to start its own commemorative tradition? That rhetorical question, posed by JFCS Holocaust Center director Morgan Blum Schneider, hung in the air on Monday night for the 47th annual Yom…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1074+ words) The Jewish News of Northern California J. recently asked readers to share their memories about Jewish overnight camps in Northern California. While camps have changed with the times, there are some things that carry across the decades: friendships, fun and Jewish…...