Jewish History

Testimonies from Holocaust Survivors

As the number of Holocaust survivors declines every year, efforts have been made to preserve their testimonies.

This past week, four synagogues in my hometown of Montreal (actually, they are even in my neighborhood) were attacked in ...

The media world is in a frenzy this morning over Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” in defending ...

Many of us know that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Selma Civil Rights ...

Yesterday Jeremy posted a link to the quiz of the top 52 cities in the world in terms of Jewish ...

Sorry, that title is a little misleading. What I really meant to say was, how well do you know Jewish ...

Six Haredi educational institutions are suspected of having cheated the state out of tens of millions of shekels through the ...

Everyone loves Top Ten lists. They are easy to read (and write!) and generally are straight to the point. No ...

Today is a fast day, and it’s a weird one.The Tenth of Tevet, according to MyJewishLearning (you can read more ...

“Look upon their pride; send Your anger upon their heads, give into my widow’s hand the strength that I plot. ...

There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...

I was too young to ever see this commercial on TV, so I just discovered it via YouTube now. First ...