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“Our story cannot be told without also including the stories of the incredible rebirth of the Jewish people – and what is Boro Park, if not that?” said Shoshana Greenwald, director of collections at the museum.

Many of the Jewish prisoners, including most likely the author of our card, were members of the Underground who had been convicted for resisting Arab terrorism.

: Last installment discussed Moses Mendelssohn, questioning whether he was all that relevant to the modernization and secularization of a significant portion of European...

In FY 2019, JCF distributed 23 percent of assets, well above the industry average.

To prevent their books from being lost or stolen, owners would routinely write their name or an inscription in them.

In Rumkowski's infamous speech, "Give Me Your Children," he urged the Jews not to resist deporting 20,000 of their children to be exterminated.

The text of the prayer is riddled with grammatical irregularities and comprises odd mix of verses and pleas.

Administered property by doctors, marijuana could be a samah shel chaim [potion of life]. Freely used by people at large, it could well be a samah shel maves [potion of death].

In the late 1930s, Bolivia’s president, German Busch, desperately sought ways to revitalize his country’s economy. Mauricio (Moritz) Hochschild – a Jewish business tycoon and a friend of the president – convinced Busch that Jewish refugees could be of help in this effort.

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All the kosher food on the Titanic was prepared in a small and crowded kosher kitchen located near the third-class kitchen on the F Deck of the ship.

We Jews have been coming to less-than-perfect tefillot for as long as synagogues have existed.

According to the headline, the funeral attracted 15,000 people, including hundreds of rabbanim and local government representatives.

My father was an outstanding sportsman and in 1938 - after the Anschluss - a game of tennis saved his life.

Frankfurter was a lifelong committed Zionist, beginning with his association with Brandeis, who enlisted him into ZOA membership and a leadership position with the Parushim.

The shul is not only open to every Jew; it is accessible to every Jew.

Some breakouts are smart, others are silly, but they all make for fun conversation and hopefully fond memories.

Thousands attended its religious services. Its members included Abraham Beame, New York’s first Jewish mayor, and the operatic tenor Richard Tucker served as the center's cantor for many years.

Many of the provisions in these constitutions attempted to curtail assimilation or deter members from moving toward Reform.

Rosenberg and his family escaped Germany on January 23, 1940, thanks to an affidavit provided to them by a complete stranger from Texas.

Emotions were high as the olim walked off the plane at 6 a.m. where they were met with rousing cheers, shofar blasts, and an exuberant crowd of 1,400.

Some academics suggest that Washington's letter, which virtually all agree presents his most prominent pronouncement on religious toleration, was actually drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

"Gruninger paid a high price for the choice he made. In the struggle between his sense of duty as a police officer, and dedication to the concepts of humanity, the latter triumphed," states Yad Vashem.

This is not history to be relegated to the past and forgotten.

Noah tried to found a Jewish state at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat.

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In 1946, Lansky ordered his men to help bring Holocaust survivors to Eretz Yisrael and facilitate the establishment of the Jewish state.

If his writings did little to sway the masses, it was his life that acted as the heady perfume. His very existence presented an alternative – a highly seductive alternative – to the ghetto Jew.

Judaica was everywhere: crammed on glass shelves, teetering atop narrow display cases, peeking from behind cardboard boxes in the store’s sprawling interior.

The dispute evolved into a fierce fight between chassidim defending the Shapiros and mitnagdim defending the Romm printers.