Jewish history

'Melting Point': Showing the dilemmas and struggles of Diaspora Jewry

A descendant of hassidim and Zionist activists, Cockerell writes compellingly about our people’s wanderings, the need for a Jewish homeland, and her family’s fight to create it.

By GIDEON SYLVESTER
04/01/2025

Hanukkah's miracles shine throughout history

Hanukkah’s story of triumph teaches gratitude for everyday miracles. As light banishes darkness, the holiday inspires hope, reminding us to find joy in small victories and the miracles around us.

By MENACHEM SPIEGEL
03/01/2025

'Jesus lived and died as a Jew': Chikli slams pope for Vatican keffiyeh nativity display

“There is no other way to understand this decision than as a deliberate adoption of the Palestinian narrative,” Chikliwrote to Pope Francis.

Consistent Torah education has earned today's Jews the stamina to survive

"I have followed the articles by Walter Bingham in The Jerusalem Report and marvel at what he has accomplished in life, despite the traumatic loss of his family during the Holocaust. Resilience!"

By CHAVA GIVON
18/12/2024

‘The Brutalist,’ the epic new movie getting Oscar buzz, is built from the stories of postwar Jews

The Hungarian Jewish designer Marcel Breuer, educated at the Bauhaus school, was forced to renounce his Judaism while he lived in Germany.

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
16/12/2024

Achieving a legacy of greatness

Prime Minister Netanyahu can be remembered for more than being Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. If he takes bold steps to improve Israel’s peace, sovereignty, and security.

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI
15/12/2024

Tel Dan Stele, oldest archaeological evidence of King David, comes to NY’s Jewish Museum

Before coming to the Jewish Museum, the stele was on display for nearly two months at a biblical archaeology museum in Oklahoma.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
14/12/2024

Biden signs bill developing plan transferring Weitzman Museum to Smithsonian

The act establishes a body that will examine whether the Philadelphia Museum, known as the Weitzman, can join the Smithsonian Institution.

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
12/12/2024

Polish police took initiative in Jewish killings, new book explores

Polish police murdered Jews during the Holocaust with gusto and even without Nazi orders, according to new resesarch.

By ZEV STUB/JTA
10/12/2024

On a mission to Auschwitz, I found hope amid the ashes

I visited Krakow again to work on Jewish-Polish reconciliation and yet again in 2022, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when the shadow of war once again loomed over Europe.

By WILLIAM C. DAROFF/JTA
07/12/2024
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