Kaunas County, Lithuania

Many children killed in the Holocaust had no one to say Kaddish for them. These Jews have stepped up.

Stewart Ain in JTA · 14 Apr

In an effort to honor the memory of Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust who have no surviving relatives, Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, Florida, has instituted a poignant tradition called "Remember a Child."

0 Politics Antisemitism

Lithuanian government party leader convicted of inciting hatred towards Jews

Grace Gilson in Forward · 4 Dec 2025

Remigijus Zemaitaitis, leader of Lithuania's populist Nemuno Aura party, was convicted for inciting hatred against Jews and minimizing the Holocaust.

0 History Holocaust

The Japanese Scholar Who Saved a Generation of Jews

Meir Soloveichik in Tablet · 3 Nov 2025

This engaging article by Meir Soloveichik recounts the extraordinary story of Chiune Sugihara and Setsuzo Kotsuji, two Japanese heroes who played pivotal roles in saving Jewish lives during World War II.

0 Culture History

The remarkable story of the Lost Shtetl Museum

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Forward · 3 Sep 2025

The Lost Shtetl Museum, inaugurated in 2025 in eduva, Lithuania, stands as a poignant tribute to the once-thriving Jewish community of this former shtetl, which was entirely wiped out during the Holocaust.

0 History Holocaust

Hiding from the Nazis in Japan

Jennifer A. Stern in Forward · 13 Aug 2025

In August 1940, Meyer Zucker, a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe, received a life-saving visa from Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania.

0 Art Politics

Ben Shahn On Nonconformity

Frances Brent in Moment · 2 Jul 2025

Ben Shahn, a Jewish artist and prominent figure in the American Progressive movement, is celebrated in a retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

0 History Leadership

Au Revoir, Rav Yisrael

Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · 24 Jun 2025

Rav Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years in Paris to address the spiritual decline of the Jewish immigrant community.

0 Ethics Jewish Law

Chevruta: The Risk of Justice Work

Jewish Currents in On the Nose · 14 May 2025

Maya Rosen and Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein engage in a chevruta, exploring the ethical challenges faced by activists in the West Bank through Jewish texts.

0 Antisemitism Communities

Ireland's prime minister gave condolences for Hitler's death — here's why that's a contemporary problem

Simon Lewis in Forward · 2 May 2025

The article explores the complex historical and contemporary relationship between Ireland and its Jewish community, focusing on the controversy surrounding the 1945 condolences sent by Irish Prime Minister Éamon de Valera to Germany upon Adolf Hitler's death.

0 Holocaust History

Our preeminent historian of the Jews is finally ready to confront Auschwitz

Dan Friedman in Forward · 22 Apr 2025

Simon Schama, a distinguished Jewish historian, explores the horrors of the Holocaust in the PBS documentary 'Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On.'

0 Literature Communities

The Shopkeeper on East Broadway

Yenta Serdatsky in Jewish Review of Books · 7 Apr 2025

Yenta Serdatsky's short story "The Shopkeeper on East Broadway" explores the Jewish immigrant experience in New York City through the lens of an idealistic shopkeeper, whose gesture of decorating his store with American and Zionist flags reflects the dual identity faced by Jewish immigrants.

0 Communities History

Persia’s Plight; Lithuania’s Light

Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · 18 Feb 2025

In 1871, a severe famine struck Persia, disproportionately affecting its Jewish population due to governmental neglect.

0 Culture Holocaust

Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire

Miriam Isaacs in Moment · 23 Jan 2025

Hannah Pollin-Galay's "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" explores the transformation of the Yiddish language during the Holocaust, highlighting how it became a unique dialect known as Khurbn Yiddish.

0 History Leadership

Scribe | The Yom Kippur sermon Stephen Wise never gave

Forward · 26 Sep 2020

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leading American Jewish figure in the 1930s and 1940s, is scrutinized for his silence during Yom Kippur 1942, despite having dire reports on the Holocaust's progress.

0 Culture History

Luba Kadison Buloff, 99, Last Survivor of Yiddish Theater Company

Forward · 12 May 2006

Luba Kadison Buloff, a celebrated Yiddish theater actress and the last surviving member of the Vilna Troupe, passed away at the age of 99.

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