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In this text, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss various important topics including U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk's suggestion...

Photos have emerged showing convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk at the Sobibor death camp, despite his denial of ever working as a guard there. The im...

Andrea Bernstein's book "American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power" explores the intricate dynamics of power and corru...

While visiting Vilnius, the author stumbles upon a life-size statue of Leonard Cohen in a courtyard, part of a series of public sculptures by Lithuanian arti...

At the start of Parashat Vayetze, Jacob dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels ascending and descending. A midrash expands on this dream, suggesti...

The podcast discusses the origin of the Maccabiah Games, likening their inception to a great miracle similar to Hanukkah. It also touches on controversial to...

Yiddish children's literature evolved from being nonexistent to having its own dedicated stories in newspapers in the late 19th century, coinciding with the ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas intends to republish the book "Exodus from Iraq" by the late Iraqi-Israeli writer Yitzhak Bar Moshe, detailing ...

The text explores the deaths of Abraham, Gideon, and David in the Bible, particularly focusing on their endings at a ripe old age. It delves into the connect...

In this excerpt from "One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir" by David Lehman, the narrator recounts seeking advice from a wise man in the synagogue on how to...

In the fall of 1989, Prague experienced a metamorphosis towards democracy and freedom. The initial student-led protests on Nov. 17 against the Communist regi...

In 1988, East Germany under Erich Honecker made unprecedented efforts to engage with its Jewish community, organizing events around the 50th anniversary of K...

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Zionist movement, known in America as the refuseniks movement, sparked a significant resurgence of Jewish identity when 18 religi...

The Letter of the Eighteen, written by 18 religious Jewish families in the Soviet republic of Georgia in 1969, was a bold plea to emigrate to Israel rooted i...

Philip Glass's Egyptian opera "Akhnaten" is set to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera, marking its American production story, which has been more modest tha...

The discussion explores the concept of messianism in Jewish history and thought, tracing it from the late 2nd Temple period in Roman-controlled Judea to mode...

The story of Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jewish boy who assassinated a German diplomat in 1938, not only sparked Kristallnacht but also outlined the de...

David Witzthum explores the unlikely alliance formed between David Ben Gurion and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shortly after WWII in his book "The Begin...

In his book "The Beginning of a Wondrous Friendship? The story of Israeli-German reconciliation 1948-1960," historian David Witzthum explores the unlikely al...

In remembrance of the Tree of Life shooting a year earlier, an exhibition titled "Lest We Forget" featuring oversize images of Holocaust survivors by Luigi T...

The Codevilla Tapes discuss the complex nature of power and governance in America, highlighting the role of an elite ruling class that is purportedly impoten...

As Hungary commemorates the 30th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central Europe, the author reflects on their time in Budapest in the late 1980s. Des...

Historian and journalist Dr. Tom Segev's new book, "A State at all Costs: The Life of David Ben-Gurion," delves into the life of Israel's founding father, dr...

In his new book "A State at all Costs: The Life of David Ben-Gurion," historian and journalist Dr. Tom Segev delves into the life of Israel's founding father...

Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist figure, is explored in the Jewish Lives Podcast through the perspective of Vivian Gornick, who authored a biography about...

Flora Spiegelberg, a Jewish woman from New York, played a pivotal role in advocating for modern waste disposal methods, including covered garbage cans and in...

The controversy surrounding Victor Arnautoff's murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco continues to escalate, with conflicting views on whet...

The author reflects on the significance of family meals during the High Holidays and the impact of reduced refugee entrance to America under President Trump,...

Ukrainian President Zelensky is currently entangled in American politics due to his phone call with President Trump being a focal point of the ongoing impeac...

Shmuel Yosef Agnon's work "The Ubiquitous Gabirol" delves into the story of a mystical encounter with the medieval poet Solomon ibn Gabirol, where Agnon weav...

Yosef Begun, initially unknown outside Soviet prisons, gained recognition when Elie Wiesel mentioned him in a Nobel Prize speech. Begun's activism for Jewish...

The text recounts a personal interaction with Gershom Scholem, a prominent Jewish scholar of mysticism, at an event in Jerusalem. Scholem's interest in surna...

Joachim Gans, a metallurgist from Prague, is celebrated as the first documented Jew in North America, having been part of the 1585 Roanoke Island expedition,...

The American Library of Nazi-Banned Books is a significant collection of books that were banned by the Nazis during World War II and is now housed at the Leo...

In "We Stand Divided," Daniel Gordis explores the longstanding rift between American Jews and Israel, tracing its roots back to differing views on religion, ...

Known as a legal shark and a remorseless political fixer, Roy Cohn was infamous for his Machiavellian tactics that shaped American politics and law. His care...

The text delves into reflections on the timeless influence of Virgil's works, particularly the Aeneid and Georgics, on various literary figures and cultures ...

Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech at Washington Square Park focusing on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, drawing parallels between the tragedy and cor...

Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a powerful speech at Washington Square, referencing the historic Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 to highlight the...

In "State or Substate?", Dmitry Shumsky explores the idea of nonstatist Zionism, focusing on major Jewish figures like Judah Magnes and Martin Buber who envi...

Doba-Mera Medvedeva's memoir details life in a shtetl in late 19th and early 20th-century Belarus, marked by poverty, revolution, and war. Despite being bare...

Samuel Greenberg, a Jewish poet and artist born in Vienna in 1893, moved to New York with his family and settled on the Lower East Side. Despite dropping out...

Rocketmen, curated by Adolfo Roitman, Hagit Maoz, and Michael Maggen at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, focuses on Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who ...

The text discusses different perspectives on Jewish identity and the relationship between Israel and the diaspora. There are critiques of a book analyzing Eu...

Abraham Joshua Heschel, a prominent Jewish thinker and refugee scholar, faced uncertain times during Nazi rule in the 1930s. In a new collection of his writi...

The exhibit "Jews, Money, Myth" at the London Jewish Museum curated by Joanne Rosenthal, Dominik Czechowski, and Morgan Wadsworth-Boyle until October 17, exa...

Bob Silverman's piece explores the historical alliance between American Jews and African Americans in founding the NAACP, emphasizing the importance of inter...

The transition from Tishah B'Av to Shabbat Nachamu reflects Jewish history's pattern of tragedy followed by revitalization and creativity, such as the Mishna...

"Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook" delves into the deep American biblical tradition, emphasizing the...

The anthology "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook" explores the significant influence of the Hebrew Bi...