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Harvard Director of Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gives talk on Israel-Palestine history
Director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gave this year’s Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency22h
Only in NY: This Bronx high school has its own Holocaust museum
The Bronx High School of Science boasts nine Nobel Prize winners and 10 Pulitzer Prize recipients among its alumni, but there ...
Holocaust Remembrance Day events: A series of commemorations across Staten Island and NYC
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, honors the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust and the courage of those who resisted. This year, it will be observed from ...
OSV News1d
Meet the Sister of Charity making sure Catholics ‘never forget’ the Holocaust
Sister Gemma del Duca, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., is pictured in a file ...
The Times of Israel1d
What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
Director of Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism delves into the little-known history of women's Holocaust survival and resilience ...
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KKBE Synagogue to celebrate 275th anniversary with cantorial concert at Gailliard Center
It stands as a symbol for strength and heritage for the Jewish community, and this year a fixture of downtown Charleston is ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency2d
FSU shooting suspect used neo-Nazi imagery on social media, ADL finds
Phoenix Ikner, 20, is accused of killing two and wounding six in the shooting on April 17. In a review of his online gaming ...
The Advocate4d
'Merely tolerated, violently persecuted:' new book explores history of Southern Jews
Some of the book’s strongest research covers the years spanning Reconstruction through Jim Crow, when, Rabin writes, “most ...
The World from PRX6d
For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the US’ greatest cantors
New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle7dOpinion
If we want Jewish life to survive, we must invest in the living
Jewish continuity has never come from educating others about our suffering. It always comes from educating our children about ...
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Jewish News of Greater Phoenix9dOpinion
Scholars have told important Jewish stories with the NEH’s support. What happens to them now?
As a historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades, I was aware when I applied to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program ...
Cleveland Jewish News9d
The lost seder plates: A glimpse into a vanished Jewish world
The centuries-old seder plates photographed by Theodor Harburger in the 1920s may be the only remnants we have of many Jewish families from Bavaria.The post The lost seder plates: A ...