Ask the Expert: Should I Light a Yahrtzeit Candle For an In-law?

Lighting memorial candles is well-established Jewish custom, but not obligatory under Jewish law.

The Jews of Scandinavia

The tiny Jewish communities of the Nordic countries have been sustained by regular arrivals of Jews fleeing persecution elsewhere.

Holocaust

Holocaust links

“Remembering” The Holocaust

Holocaust history, memory and art.

Holocaust Scroll

The Conservative movement's creation of this scroll is the latest attempt in contemporary Judaism to create a liturgy for Yom Hashoah.

Teaching the Holocaust

This history lesson stirs controversy in many educational settings.

Teaching the Holocaust

A look at some disagreements in how the Holocaust should be taught, including the emphasis on victimhood, the importance of ...

A Timeline of the Holocaust

From Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremberg trials, key events of the Shoah.

Art & The Holocaust

Can abstraction, and Abstract art, deal properly with the enormity of the Shoah? (Jewish Exponent) A Haredi woman, born to ...