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0 Literature Culture

Letters to the Editor: Keep Buying Jewish Books

Editor in Hadassah · 3 Oct 2025

Readers of Hadassah Magazine provide a variety of responses to the July/August 2025 issue, highlighting the importance of continuing to buy and engage with Jewish literature.

0 Art History

Meet the Jewish architects who designed NYC’s iconic art deco buildings

Jackie Hajdenberg in JTA · 21 Jul 2025

New York City's iconic art deco skyline owes much to the influence of Jewish architects who contributed to this distinctive style during its peak in the 1920s and 1930s.

0 Music Culture

The cantors who captivated Hasidic rebbes

Dov Bergman in Forward · 11 Jul 2025

Cantors, once celebrated within the secluded Hasidic courts of Europe, became cultural icons with remarkable influence in America.

0 Leadership Communities

Remembering Rabbi Sholom Lipskar z”l

Mordechai Wilhelm in Ami · 7 May 2025

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, a revered Chabad emissary, dedicated his life to transforming Miami into a flourishing hub of Jewish life and spirituality from its roots as a spiritual desert.

0 Holocaust History

In Memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Vasily Grossman in Jewish Review of Books · 15 Jan 2025

Vasily Grossman's poignant essay, written but censored in 1948, is a moving tribute to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and its fighters.

0 History Politics

Forward Looking Back

Forward · 2 Dec 2016

Exploring historical moments from the past century, the article reflects on events such as the electoral triumph of Meyer London, a socialist and Jewish immigrant, in Manhattan's Lower East Side, as well as the controversial political ambitions of Charles Lindbergh and the Nazi-affiliated past of German Chancellor Kurt Georg Klesinger.