Facts are important, but numbers are not the full story. If five villages were attacked or 20 were attacked it would still be an issue. The big picture is that these charges against the Jewish residen ...

Matzah and Flour” includes recipes from across Sephardic Jewish history. Author Hélène Jawhara Piñer posits that matzah can ...

Last summer, to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, photographer Marc Asnin and writer Dovid Zaklikowsky published “The Oracle,” a handsome volume ...

The Nazis didn’t just wake up overnight and say, ‘Let’s kill the Jews,’” Jane Bartsch, Seymour High School English teacher ...

Barbra Streisand didn’t just break barriers — she sang through them and directed herself into the history books with “Yentl.” Since then, the gender-bending musical has continued to ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...

When an accident threatened to expose two young Jewish refugees to Nazi forces, they found medical help and sanctuary in an Alpine town.

Memories can’t be cancelled. The Boltanski family never celebrates significant dates, even their own birthdays; according to ...

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If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...