A lonely Jew reassembles her vanished family through a combination of genealogical sleuthing, genetic testing and cousin-fishing ...
The world watched in horror earlier this year when videos went viral showing ISIS bulldozing the 3,000-year-old ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud in Iraq—a city so old it is mentioned in Genesis. The militants toppled walls and bas-reliefs, sledgehammered statues and used a bulldozer to overturn and ...
"I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing," writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943. ...
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2015 // Leonard Fein, who passed away in 2014, and Elie Wiesel—both writers deeply concerned about Judaism and Jews—founded Moment to be an independent voice in the Jewish American community. ...
HER FAMILY OWNED THE BUILDING. THE NAZIS TOOK IT AWAY. NOW SHE WANTED JUSTICE. ...
Jewish American Heritage // January/February 2015 ...
Entrepreneurial 19th-century Jewish immigrants reshaped the garmnet industry and paved the way for today's fashion superstars. From jeans to attached collars to Hollywood glamour to preppy clothes and schmatte chic, Jews have defined the American look. ...
How should we view the complicated history of Lydda and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? ...
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela roamed widely across the medieval world, from Narbonne to Cairo, meeting Rabbanites and Karaites along the way. ...
You probably already know that 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was radical for his time—from his notorious excommunication from the
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Norman Gelb is the author of many works of history, including The Berlin Wall, Less Than Glory, Desperate Venture, and
...Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent many years as a Washington Post reporter and editor, now serves as
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