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Emotional Artists Motty Wiesel & Mendy Wiesel In A Particularly Moving Duet – ‘Zei Gut!’

The video, accompanied by the ‘Malchut‘ choir and the ‘Zingerlich‘ children’s choir, is being released on the tenth anniversary of the passing of the man of chessed, Rabbi Hershy W...

In the course of his 104 years, he resisted the Nazis, fought against blood libel and became a towering Jewish intellect...

Today, in a public ceremony held at Les Invalides, President Emmanuel Morin led the French Fifth Republic in paying its last respects to one of the nation’s great public figures, E...

Sixty Years After 'The Jews of Silence'

Haim Ben Yakov, Jewish News Syndicate Elie Wiesel's book transformed the fate of Soviet Jewry into a global public issue and became part of the open struggle against Soviet state...

Ruth, Naomi, Mara, Maror, Meir and Elisha ben Abuyah

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Welter and Waste in the Hebrew Bible

Jacob Wisse, Mosaic The work of history's greatest artists—from Michelangelo to Rembrandt—is filled with depictions of the Exodus, of Mordechai and Esther, of creation itself. But...

Law, Witnessing, and the 'Grey Zone'

What insights emerge from comparing Primo Levi's and Benjamin Ferencz's responses to the Holocaust?

'Responsibility for genocide does not diminish with age or the passage of time'

Emir Suljagić survived the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst massacre since World War II. As director of the town's Genocide Memorial Center, he says justice remains elusiv...

Soccer helped my family survive the Nazis. Our community has lost sight of that story’s meaning

A new exhibit at the Holocaust Museum LA should be telling my great-grandfather’s story as part of its study of soccer, Jews and the Holocaust. But it won’t, because the museum fai...

The Kristallnacht Monument and the Question of Whether to Stop

Miniature, polite gestures of memorialization serve neither as insurance against future catastrophes nor as tributes to the victims. So should we stop to acknowledge them? The post...

A genius encumbered by loss: A haunted Jewish poet is brought back to life

Amid Surge in Antisemitism, Spanish Jewish Leader Builds Landmark Museum in Madrid

Hatchwell believes the most powerful response is not silence or retreat, but education. The post Amid Surge in Antisemitism, Spanish Jewish Leader Builds Landmark Museum in Madrid...

The Sure Way of Edith Stein

Jake Meador, Mere Orthodoxy She was brilliant. She was faithful. In 1942, she was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The German-born Jewish philosopher Edith Stein was a...

'France's grandfather': Jewish philosopher Edgar Morin dies at 104

Eulogized by President Emmanuel Macron as 'humanism embodied,' Edgar Morin fought in the French Resistance and is remembered for his scholarly contributions to sociology and philos...

'History is on my side': Why one of Israel's harshest internal critics still has hope

Ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey lost his job, his wife and spent five brutal days in jail after he seemed to celebrate the death of five Israeli soldiers. His memoir decrying...

New Expanded Edition of Courage of the Spirit II Tells the Extraordinary Story of Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg

The account of Rabbi Dr William Weinberg, who served the survivors of the Holocaust in Austria and Germany, is a story of courage of the spirit to persevere against all odds. His a...

Retracing the epic journey of the world’s oldest Jew

I, A Wandering Jew. A Five-Century History of our Modern Condition Yair Mintzker Princeton University Press, 272 pages, $29.95. My father, an American-born son of Belarusian immigr...

Singer Mendy J & Bondi Beach Survivor Leibel Lazaroff Sing for Mumbai, Dubai & Bondi: “Hurting with Insanity”

Chabad singer Mendy J, like many of us, was affected by these three terrible tragedies. He wasn’t planning on releasing a song in their memory. However, when he received a

Last remaining survivor of 1929 Hebron massacre passes away at 100

Yitzhak Ben Hebron was about four years old at the outbreak of the riots that led to the massacre, and managed to escape the violence through the window of the Avraham Avinu Synago...

Is anyone in the West Bank settlement of Carmel willing to say 'enough'?

I hope there's someone among Carmel residents whose heart hasn't sealed completely, and can still realize what you've inflicted on hundreds of human beings. So far, I've only seen...

Gazan Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is our generation's Janusz Korczak

The director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital refused to abandon his patients, even after his son was killed and he himself was wounded. Today, he is being held without charge in an...

‘Giant’ and the Seduction of Certainty

Director and playwright Moisés Kaufman sees the play's power not in its denouncement of antisemitism but in its depiction of how antisemitism persists.

A Jewish hero’s elevation to the French Panthéon uncorks simmering divisions over who wears the mantle of resistance

Marc Bloch’s family called for leaders of the far-right National Rally to be banished from the ceremony. -- The post A Jewish hero’s elevation to the French Panthéon uncorks simmer...

As a senior Israeli doctor, our silence on Hussam Abu Safiya is insufferable

Mamdani's Diving in the Deep End in the Socialist Pool