Subcarpathia, Poland

Natan Slifkin in Rationalist Judaism · 10 Mar

Amid the ongoing war challenges in Israel, an incident involving a group of yeshiva students traveling to Poland for a religious pilgrimage has sparked controversy.

0 History Israel

Israel is what happens when you run out of places to go.

Ido Singer in Future of Jewish · 24 Feb

Ido Singer's essay delves into the persistent displacement and resilience of Jewish communities throughout history, addressing the oft-posed question, "Why don't Jews just leave?"

0 Leadership Jewish Law

The cases that made Nat Lewin — and the causes he made possible

Gabby Deutch in Jewish Insider · 30 Jan

Nat Lewin has had a profound impact on American legal history and the role of Jews in the legal profession.

0 Holocaust Literature

Holocaust Diary Gets New Life 80 Years After Author’s Death

Peter Ephross in Hadassah · 5 Jan

Renia Spiegel's Holocaust-era diary, first published internationally in 2019, has now been translated into Hebrew, gaining renewed attention and serving as an important educational tool on the Holocaust.

0 Holocaust History

He Has Me Covered

Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · 30 Dec 2025

Reflecting over eighty years of life, Zisha Goldman shares how divine protection seems to have safeguarded his family from the horrors of the Holocaust.

0 Food History

Russ & Daughters celebrates 111 years of Jewish New York history with a new cookbook

Rachel Ringler in JTA · 8 Sep 2025

Russ & Daughters, an iconic Jewish appetizing institution in New York, celebrates its 111-year history with the release of a new cookbook, "Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing."

0 Culture Education

Why Jews will miss the Corporation of Public Broadcasting terribly

Benjamin Ivry in Forward · 4 Aug 2025

The recent announcement of the impending closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) marks the end of a pivotal support system for Jewish cultural and educational media in the United States.

0 Communities Culture

For 110 years, a proudly Jewish family has been a treasured purveyor of pork

PJ Grisar in Forward · 23 Jul 2025

The Teitel Brothers Wholesale Grocery on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is a century-old institution run by the Teitel family, Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland, known for its Italian pork products.

0 Jewish Law History

A Bridge between Ashkenaz and Sepharad: Hakham Tsevi - Rabbi Yosie Levine

The Habura · 24 Apr 2025

Rabbi Yosie Levine delves into the life and controversies surrounding Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi, a prominent rabbinic figure bridging Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewries during the early 18th century.

0 Holocaust Jewish Law

This Holocaust survivor rediscovered her Jewish roots decades later—thanks to a Canadian genealogist

The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner · 27 Mar 2025

Jewish genealogist Stanley Diamond helped uncover the true identity of Maria Vasitinskaya, born Rivka Silber, who was left in a ditch during the Holocaust and raised as a Christian, by connecting her with her surviving Jewish relatives decades later.

0 Television/Film Holocaust

Filmmaker Allan Novak turns the camera on his family: the oldest living Holocaust survivors in the world

Not That Kind of Rabbi · 20 Nov 2024

Veteran filmmaker Allan Novak created "Crossing the River: From Poland to Paradise," a documentary about his family, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings who remarkably survived by being deported to Siberia.

0 Holocaust History

Filmmaker Allan Novak turns the camera on his family: the oldest living Holocaust survivors in the world

TMDS in Not That Kind of Rabbi · 20 Nov 2024

Allan Novak's documentary, "Crossing the River: From Poland to Paradise," highlights the extraordinary resilience and survival of his mother and her siblings, recognized as the world's oldest living Holocaust survivors.

0 Holocaust History

Filmmaker Allan Novak turns the camera on his family: the oldest living Holocaust survivors in the world

TMDS in Not That Kind of Rabbi · 20 Nov 2024

Allan Novak, a veteran director, turned his lens inward to document his family, known as the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings, in his film 'Crossing the River: From Poland to Paradise.'

0 Communities Holocaust

Jewish orphans evacuated from Odessa to Berlin at Ukraine war’s start are headed home again

Deborah Danan in Forward · 21 Feb 2023

Rabbi Mendy Wolff is orchestrating the return of 120 children and staff from the Mishpacha Orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, to their homeland, after a year of refuge in Berlin due to the ongoing war.

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