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In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light
Category : Editor's Picks
“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s, Léonce Schwartz. What her tribute reveals is part memoir, part historical documentation of a lesser-known chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi’s mass arrest, in French the word […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Mireille Knoll, murdered Holocaust survivor, honored in Paris
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Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her Paris apartment in a horrific antisemitic attack in 2018, has been commemorated in the French capital with a street named in her honor. In a ceremony, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, inaugurated the “Allée Mireille Knoll” in the city’s 11th arrondissement, where Knoll resided, accompanied […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Stamps celebrate the lives of Portuguese who saved Jews during the Holocaust
Category : Latest Destination
Among the five Portuguese recalled in this special edition are some names already well known, such as Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who lost his position as Portuguese consul in France for having insisted, against the orders of the regime, on granting visas to Jews seeking to flee the country, and Father Joaquim Carreira, whose efforts […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021
Memory Map of Jewish Manchester
Category : Featured Article
This new digital resource takes the form of a freely available interactive website, which maps stories, histories, and recollections of the Jewish community who once lived in the Cheetham Hill, Strangeways, and Hightown areas of North Manchester. The Memory Map of Jewish Manchester aims to create a lasting document of the living memory of […]
Read MoreWednesday, October 20th, 2021
Rabbi Raphael Berdugo commemorated 200 years after his death
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A ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Raphael Berdugo, one of the eminent figures of Moroccan Judaism, was held in the old Jewish cemetery of Meknes. This ceremony took place on the sidelines of a symposium initiated, simultaneously in the Presidency in Israel, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the […]
Read MoreThursday, October 7th, 2021
Celebrating 180th birthday of South Africa’s Jewish community
Category : Featured Article
Once, on my travels in the US, I encountered a young lady who had recently emigrated from Kenya. I recognized her origins by her distinctive accent. When I mentioned that I, too, was African, she looked at me aghast, not believing that someone of European appearance with a neo-British accent could have been born and […]
Read MoreFriday, September 24th, 2021
10 reasons the Negev is the next place to visit in Israel
Category : Blog
Amazing views, gorgeous wines, fascinating history, and all sorts of active adventures, push the southern desert to the top of our travel wish list. TIME magazine recently named Israel’s Negev Desert as one of the World’s Greatest Places for 2021. And for good reason, too, since despite its seemingly arid appearance the southern desert is one […]
Read MoreThursday, September 23rd, 2021
8 reasons why we love Israel in the fall
Category : Blog
From blooming flowers and migrating birds to stunning sunsets and saying goodbye to sandals, fall might be Israel’s most perfect season. Across the world, people are bemoaning the end of summer and the beginning of a long, dark winter. In Israel, however, a loud collective sigh of relief can be heard as the blistering heat […]
Read MoreSunday, September 19th, 2021
10 great reasons to love the pomegranate
Category : Editor's Picks
Pomegranates add color and symbolism to the Rosh Hashana table décor, but they are also extremely good for your health. Coaxing the edible seeds out of a pomegranate is a popular how-to topic. Some swear by the whack-with-a-wooden-spoon method; others massage out those ruby-red arils in a bowl of water to keep things neat. Any […]
Read MoreTuesday, August 31st, 2021
JEWS IN ALL 6 GULF COUNTRIES JOIN TOGETHER FOR FIRST SELICHOT GATHERING IN DECADES
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The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the people-to-people network of Jewish communities from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries that are developing Jewish life in the region, will hold its first joint Selichot event – believed to be the first event of its kind in the region. On Sunday, August 22 at 5:00 p.m. […]
Read MoreMonday, August 16th, 2021