Friends Of Refugees Of Eastern Europe In Chicago (Part II)
As the refugee population grew, we realized that we could reach more people through a Russian-language newspaper.
View ArticleKiddush Hashem 1966
Agnon's words at the Nobel ceremony resonated for a proud observant Jew embracing a momentous occasion.
View ArticleThe Sparks Of Judaism Come Alive In Belarus
Two and a half decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Belarus is still in many ways a communist country.
View ArticleWhich Jew Really Created Batman?
After writing the first Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate,” Finger went on to author 1,500 more stories over 25 years.
View ArticleFriends Of Refugees Of Eastern Europe In Chicago (Conclusion)
It is impossible to assess how many lives have been touched, how many mitzvot have been performed because of F.R.E.E., and the far-reaching effect of each interaction with another Jew.
View ArticleThe Judaism Of Joseph Pulitzer
Among other evidence, researchers have uncovered any number of official records, including passports and issued passes that conform Pulitzer’s mother was a Hungarian-born Jew.
View ArticlePete Seeger: An Anti-Zionist Who Sang Israeli Songs
None of this should have been surprising to those who knew him because he was always first and foremost an unrepentant communist who, despite his repeated assertions of standing for peace and mutual...
View ArticleIsaac Leeser: Father Of Torah Judaism In America
Orphaned at age 14 and raised by his devout grandmother, who greatly influenced him, Leeser emigrated from Germany to America three years later, arriving at Richmond (1824).
View ArticleJewish Geography, Part III: To the Ends of the Earth
Whatever their reasons for navigating those icy waters, it was a challenge for all early explorers, including the Jewish scientists who made contributions to the endeavor, sometimes at the cost of...
View ArticleDisraeli And The Secret Plan To End The U.S. Civil War
Disraeli was also a Zionist who, in several of his later books, expressed his strong desire to see the return of the Jews to their land, including Jerusalem.
View ArticleThe Jew Who Discovered Penicillin’s Use
He married within the faith (to chemist Anne Beloff) and was an outspoken anti-assimilationist.
View ArticleThe Jewish WWI Military Contribution To Germany
The German Military High Command through War Minister Wild von Hohenborn ordered the Judenzählung (1916), a despicable Jewish census designed to confirm the lack of patriotism among German Jews.
View ArticleJewish Geography, Part IV: Where In The World Are The Ten Lost Tribes Of Israel?
Were the Jews Eldad encountered during his life and travels really descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes?
View ArticleJerome Kern And ‘Ol’ Man River’
He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era and created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted more than four decades.
View ArticleYitzhak Ganon And ‘The Angel Of Death’
Though I assumed he was just another notary, I nonetheless decided on a whim to see if I could find out anything interesting about him – and therein lies a truly remarkable, almost unbelievable, tale.
View ArticleJohn Lennon, Helen Shapiro, And The Jews
Our extended family, although not a very orthodox group, was nevertheless totally Jewish in identity and heritage…
View ArticleBernard Baruch: ‘America First’
On the one hand, he was not a Zionist in the sense of supporting Eretz Yisrael as a Jewish state and he publicly proclaimed that he was not a political Zionist.
View ArticleHenry Stimson Approves Passover Furloughs
Many young Jewish soldiers who were away from home for the first time found that attending a Seder provided an important emotional link to familiar traditions of home and family.
View ArticleEdward R. Murrow Breaks The News Of The Holocaust
Though Murrow became a legendary pioneer of radio broadcasting and television news, he has received little recognition for his rescue efforts on behalf of persecuted scholars during the Holocaust.
View ArticleThe Israeli Declaration Of Independence
The proclamation of a Jewish state had to be made on May 14 because the British Mandate was to end at midnight and Jewish leadership did not want even one second to pass before the formal establishment...
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