Reflecting on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
by Symi Rom-Rymer
One hundred years ago today, 146 immigrant women, primarily Jewish and Italian, died while trying to escape a fire that raged through the...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
A Revolution By Any Other Name
By Niv Elis
For the Czech Republic it was Velvet. For Serbia, it was a Bulldozer. For Iran, it was distinctly Islamic. But nobody has yet...
Czech Out Those Jews: Judaism in the Czech Republic
By Kayla Green
How is it possible to judge the attitude toward Jews in the Czech Republic, a country where Jews have in recent history suffered...
The Golem in the Attic
By Kayla Green
Tucked away in the snowy cobblestone streets of Prague’s Jewish Quarter stands a synagogue that is as old and significant as it is...
The Holocaust Today
By Symi Rom-Rymer
January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 years after the liberation,...
Jewish Ghosts of Budapest
By Merav Levkowitz
On the last evening of 2010, a Friday, about 35-40 (mostly) young adults, gathered in a non-descript apartment in the center of Budapest’s—actually...
A Tale of Two New Years
By Gabriel Weinstein
Optimism and excitement for the new year still permeate the crisp winter air as in the second week of 2011. Lofty...
Renewing Galicia
by Gabriel Weinstein
My grandfather always chuckled when we spoke about the Galicia region of northwestern Ukraine and southeastern Poland. He’d cackle, “Galicia! We used to...
Gentrification and the Jews
by Lily Hoffman Simon
Jewish immigrant communities coming to North America around the turn of the 20th century faced many problems, including poverty, anti-Semitism, and poor...
Israel's Other Refugee Problem
by Daniel Kieval
On Monday night, a few days after thousands marched for human rights in Tel Aviv, Israel deported about 150 refugees back to their...