Soon after Rabbi Moti Grumach moved to Kyoto, Japan, about three years ago to serve as an emissary there for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he realized that a local craft dovetailed neatly with Jewish traditions. Warosoku, or candles made from the fruit of the haze tree — or Japanese sumac, sometimes called the wax tree — […]
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In a world of fake news and hype, what distinguishes theories from conspiracy theories? Do certain issues and rhetoric, such as anti-Zionism, receive a protected platform on university campuses around the United States? Is there an anti-Jewish bias in academia, and if so, does that create problems in other areas of society? Is there a […]
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The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, welcomes back international guests with the reopening of Israel to international tourism after 18 months of closure. Visitors from all over the world can re-discover this one-of-a-kind, award-winning hotel which combines 4,000 years of history, landmark architecture, and contemporary luxury hospitality. The Jaffa Hotel and Residences are situated in […]
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Austria dedicated a new memorial to murdered Jews this week, on the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht. The Shoah Wall of Names Memorial is Austria’s first public Holocaust memorial and is seen as a gesture that the European country is finally taking public responsibility for its past – something Austria has been notorious for avoiding for decades. The […]
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Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave […]
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A watershed mark in the corona pandemic: As of November 1, individual tourists may enter Israel, under certain conditions. This is the moment so many travelers – and Israel’s tourism industry – have been waiting for since the pandemic shut out much of foreign travel through Ben-Gurion International Airport in March 2020. Effective November 1, […]
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The Madeira Promotion Bureau is thrilled to announce new non-stop flights from New York (JFK) to the Madeira Islands (FNC) via SATA Azores through our partner Inovtravel, a Portugal-based tour operator and DMC offering the perfect opportunity for your clients to experience Madeira. This is the first non-stop flight ever from a major U.S. gateway […]
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French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated near Paris what is believed to be the world’s first museum on the wrongful and antisemitic persecution of the late army captain Alfred Dreyfus. The new museum, inaugurated in the suburb of Médan, features at least 500 documents including photographs, court papers and personal objects from the 8-year ordeal […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]
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