2+ week, 3+ day ago   (174+ words) • On Simchat Torah 1944, 800 boys were selected for death; 51 walked out alive after being chosen (or slipping in) to unload potatoes. • The order appears to have come from Johann Schwarzhuber rather than Josef Mengele, though the precise motive remains unclear. • Schiff…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1562+ words) Is religious education enough? Giving voice to 160 years of Jacaranda Jews Extremist targets judge in antisemitism case Israel cricket team not bowled out by hostility in Finland The issues on the minds of Israeli voters Eliya and Ziv celebrate life,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (221+ words) (JNS) A new app, named Shachpatz, or “bulletproof vest,” was launched last week to offer security tips and pro bono legal assistance to Israeli reservists traveling abroad. The invention follows years of legal threats and arrest attempts by anti-Israel groups…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1209+ words) Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50,000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his own execution. Before he met the gallows, Stroop described in unrepentant detail his ascent as a Nazi, his…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (653+ words) Over the past three weeks I‘ve been fortunate to spend in Cape Town, conversations have repeatedly turned to what it means to be Jewish in Poland today: the legacy of the Holocaust, rising antisemitism, and whether I plan to…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (674+ words) Erica Frydenberg was not yet one year old when her uncle helped save her from the Holocaust in Budapest. What Nandor Eichel did next, moving through a city gripped by Nazi terror to rescue other Jews, remained largely unspoken for…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (445+ words) Ynetnews The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will open a landmark exhibition in September marking the 80th anniversary of the recovery of the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the clandestine collection of documents created by Jews in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (512+ words) The Great Synagogue of Vilna stood for three centuries before it was ransacked by the Nazis and destroyed under Soviet rule The bimah of what was once one of Europe’s largest synagogues has been uncovered by archaeologists in Vilnius, Lithuania,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (252+ words) Excavations at the Great Synagogue associated with the Vilna Gaon, which was destroyed by the Nazi regime and later by the Soviet authorities some 70 years ago, have revealed sections of the prayer hall and the women’s gallery, colourful floors, seating…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (632+ words) Published 5:45 am Friday, July 31, 2026 Temple Emanu-El, long occupied by Longview’s Jewish congregation, will be forever part of the city’s story with the donation of the aging property on Eden Drive. The Longview City Council voted unanimously Thursday to accept the…...