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A call to preserve Jewish memory
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (304+ words) On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the slaughter of six million Jewish lives lost in the Shoah. Women, men, children, and souls from whom the light was turned off forever. But the Yom Hashoah should not be only about death....
How a Norwegian pastor helped Jews pray in secret during the Holocaust
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (969+ words) The Holocaust in Norway was especially devastating relative to the size of the country's small Jewish community. Of the roughly 1, 100 Jews who remained in Norway and did not flee, about 770 were murdered, mainly in Auschwitz. There was almost no Jewish…...
Old Westbury sued for barring synagogue construction
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (429+ words) After nearly two decades of legal sparring, a town on Long Island has been ordered to pay a local Chabad center $19 million, settling claims that officials unlawfully blocked the construction of a synagogue on its rabbi's property. Rabbi Aaron Konikov…...
In the shadow of the Holocaust, survivors kept Passover alive in 1946
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1051+ words) Eighty years ago, as the spring of 1946 arrived across a shattered Europe still drenched in blood, the Jewish people prepared to celebrate Passover under circumstances almost beyond human comprehension. World War II had ended less than a year earlier. The…...
When miracles demand courage: A moral reading of Exodus for our time
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (756+ words) There are moments in history when reality itself seems to fracture " when the familiar dissolves, and humanity is forced to confront the limits of fear, power, and hope. The story of the Exodus is on. It is often remembered as…...
Inviting Zohran Mamdani to a Seder undermines Jewish identity
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (475+ words) The inclusion of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Downtown Seder alongside Jewish and Israeli figures reflects a failure of judgment at a moment when clarity is essential. At a time of rising antisemitism and intensifying debates over…...
The Fort Sill Haggadah: A Seder for hundreds of soldiers
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (522+ words) In 1946, on the occasion of my first Seder, I was given the National Jewish Welfare Board Haggadah published during World War II. Known as the JWB Haggadah, it was used in all American military installations around the world. It was a…...
Columbia's Hillel director: What do we do about antisemitism on campus?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (519+ words) As the parent of a high-school junior and someone who has worked with Jewish college students almost my entire career, nearly all the conversations I have with other parents revolve around the college search process and - unfortunately - one question: "Is…...
Despite Iran war, 40 American, Canadian Jews make aliyah ahead of Passover
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (472+ words) Forty North Americans became Israeli citizens on Wednesday, including 25 who landed at Ben Gurion Airport and 15 already in Israel who completed the process the same day, arriving just before Passover and in the middle of the ongoing war with Iran....
Yad Vashem Chairman meets with Pope Leo XIV to discuss Holocaust rememberance
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (277+ words) Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday to discuss the importance of Holocaust remembrance and research, including its significance for the Catholic world. Dayan and the Pope raised the idea of potential…...