Minsk, Belarus

When Jews are on the ballot, it’s time to get out.

Hana Raviyt Schank in Future of Jewish · 4 Nov 2025

Hana Raviyt Schank reflects on her experiences as a Jew living in various cities, notably New York post-9/11 and during recent resurgences of antisemitism.

0 Art Holidays

Julian Alper — Painting the Etrog: A Topsy-Turvy Tale of Etrog Painting

Julian Alper in Lehrhaus · 5 Oct 2025

Julian Alper explores the symbolism of etrog and lulav through the lens of Jewish art, specifically focusing on paintings by Marc Chagall and Paula Gans.

0 Music History

How the Yiddish 'poet of the people' wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard

Henry H. Sapoznik in Forward · 1 Aug 2025

Solomon Smulevitz, a prolific Yiddish songwriter and performer from the early 20th century, greatly influenced Jewish music despite struggling with financial success.

0 History Jewish Law

The Lost Legacy of the Leshem

Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · 1 Jul 2025

Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, also known as the Leshem, was a prominent kabbalist of the Lithuanian world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

0 History Communities

Twentieth-Century Russia, a Microcosm of Jewish History

Tel Aviv Review · 9 Jun 2025

Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen explores the complex history of Jews in 20th-century Russia, highlighting their evolution from marginalized subjects to significant participants in Soviet society.

0 History Politics

Refusenik Lessons for Today

Sapir · 14 May 2025

The term "refusenik" refers to Soviet Jews whose emigration requests were denied, highlighting a tenacious fight against Soviet oppression.

0 Politics History

Elissa Slotkin, the Jewish Democrat chosen to rebut Trump, has a riveting family immigration story

Philissa Cramer in JTA · 4 Mar 2025

Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Jewish Democrat from Michigan, prepares to deliver her party's response to President Trump's speech to Congress, a significant moment that reflects her status as a prominent voice in a politically divided state.

0 Music History

Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever

Jennifer A. Stern in Forward · 26 Feb 2025

Sofia Magid, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist active between 1928 and 1938, made significant contributions to preserving Jewish folk music by recording a rich collection of Yiddish songs and Hebrew chants in Belarus and Ukraine.

0 Television/Film Antisemitism

Why a 100-year-old film about a 'City Without Jews' seems disturbingly prescient today

Diane Cole in Forward · 14 Feb 2025

"The City Without Jews," a 1924 silent film newly rescreened with contemporary Klezmer music, foreshadowed the dark trajectory of antisemitism in Europe leading up to the Holocaust.

0 Culture Food

At last, a new restaurant opens at the Jewish Museum in the space vacated by Russ & Daughters

Lisa Keys in JTA · 7 Nov 2024

The Jewish Museum in New York's Upper East Side is opening "Lox at the Jewish Museum," a new kosher restaurant by Chef David Teyf, taking over the space left by Russ & Daughters after its pandemic closure.

0 History Culture

The true story behind the 'Night of the Murdered Poets'

Rukhl Schaechter in Forward · 3 Aug 2023

On August 12, 1952, Stalin's regime executed 13 Jewish cultural figures in Moscow's Lubyanka prison, an event now known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

0 Music Culture

God Bless Irving Berlin!

Forward · 11 May 2021

Irving Berlin, born Israel Isidore Beilin, was a Russian Jewish immigrant who became one of America's most celebrated songwriters, known for hits like "White Christmas" and "God Bless America."

0 History Jewish Law

High Threshold

Allan Arkush in Jewish Review of Books · 2 Apr 2019

Allan Arkush reflects on the life and influence of Rabbi Avraham Karelitz, known as the Hazon Ish, through the lens of a chance encounter and Benjamin Brown's comprehensive biography.

0 Music Holocaust

Resurrecting Yiddish Music One Song At A Time

Forward · 21 Jun 2018

In a captivating project, the album "Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II" resurrects the poignant yet powerful voices of Soviet Jews through Yiddish songs composed during the Holocaust.

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