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The Times of Israel

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the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
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Writer: Matt Lebovic

May 16, 2013
8:46 pm

Meyers Rimonim for Torah scrolls (photo credit: courtesy of Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

Colonial Jewish roots in America take center stage

A recent bequest to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and a record-breaking Sotheby’s auction illustrate growing appreciation of Judaica

By Matt Lebovic

May 8, 2013
1:39 pm

Attack-related art made during ITC session in Boston on May 7, 2013. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Israeli team helps Boston fight back against trauma

It takes a village, say Israel’s top specialists as they reshape individual Bostonians’ suffering and refocus on the community as a source of resilience

By Matt Lebovic

April 26, 2013
5:51 pm

Israeli saxophonist Daniel Rotem (photo credit: courtesy of Gangi N all that jazz)

Israeli music students in Boston play on, post-attack

Sabra musicians at the prestigious Berklee College of Music teach how the show must go on despite terror

By Matt Lebovic

April 22, 2013
1:24 pm

Interfaith procession on the way to a prayer service in Boston, April 21. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Boston’s ‘week of terror’ evokes Israel for Jews

While the city’s community connects with interfaith partners, voices within question how it should approach American Muslims

By Matt Lebovic

April 18, 2013
8:42 pm

The most famous image out of the Warsaw Ghetto. (photo credit: courtesy of the USHMM)

The ultimate emblem of resistance: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On the revolt’s 70th anniversary, exploring how Jews fought to determine their own fates and how that ethos influenced Israel

By Matt Lebovic

April 8, 2013
10:08 am

Production photo for 'Wallace Seeks Solace' (photo credit: Courtesy)

Dr. Seuss meets the Holocaust in student-made film

With a $1,700 budget, young filmmakers mesh storybook narration and a child’s perspective in new short ‘Wallace Seeks Solace’

By Matt Lebovic

April 4, 2013
3:53 pm

A hanukkiyah retrieved from a European flea market returns to its original purpose. (Courtesy of Bill Frankel)

Lost to the Nazis, then to flea markets, now back in use

Decades after the Holocaust, victims’ ritual objects fill European bazaars — but are being rescued by a new organization

By Matt Lebovic

March 12, 2013
3:12 pm

Members of the Weinrauch family, including future filmmaker Gita, center, remained in Vienna until after WWII was underway. (Courtesy of Gita Kaufman)

75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria

On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film

By Matt Lebovic

March 9, 2013
6:52 pm

Hundreds of performers, including Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson, helped raise awareness of the Holocaust as it unfolded by joining the cast of We Will Never Die. (Courtesy of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)

The first time Hollywood exposed the Holocaust

Saturday marks 70 years since a daring, controversial ‘propaganda pageant’ demanded US action against the genocide

By Matt Lebovic

March 8, 2013
4:57 pm

The "Wizard of Oz" prequel opening Friday in the US is based on the ideas of L. Frank Baum, whose descendants would eventually apologize for his hateful racial views. (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Lions and tigers and genocide? Oh yes

L. Frank Baum, the creator of Dorothy and ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ — opening Friday in the US — also dabbled in murderous racism

By Matt Lebovic

February 27, 2013
11:55 pm

Despite her nightmarish early years, Auschwitz survivor Paula Dash was a joyful presence in the life of her granddaughter, shown at her college graduation in 1993. (Courtesy of Allison Nazarian)

Author examines Holocaust trauma in a new generation

Inspired by her relatives’ differing responses — resilience and suicide — Allison Nazarian looks at survivors’ grandchildren

By Matt Lebovic

January 28, 2013
10:19 pm

Now 87, Israel "Izzy" Arbeiter visits Auschwitz, which he survived as a young man while cleaning latrines. (Courtesy of the WWII Foundation)

Survivor returns to Poland to dig up family history, literally

In a new documentary, Izzy Arbeiter honors a promise to his father made just before the family’s deportation to Treblinka

By Matt Lebovic

January 28, 2013
2:51 pm

Built in the 17th century by refugees from the Inquisition, Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue withstood the Nazi occupation to remain a center of Jewish life. (Matt Lebovic)

New cultural quarter resurrects Amsterdam’s Jewish past

Dutch capital earns international notice for efforts to rebuild a presence almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust

By Matt Lebovic

January 26, 2013
5:27 pm

A painting that still hangs in a cathedral in Sandomierz, Poland, depicts Jews murdering Christian children for their blood. (Courtesy of Zygmunt Miłoszewski)

Crime novelist finds ‘Truth’ in anti-Semitic blood libel

Polish writer Zygmunt Miłoszewski explains how an ancient lie inspired his latest book — newly available in English — and reflects on the charged history of Jews in Poland

By Matt Lebovic

December 21, 2012
5:22 pm

Michael Lozman initiated the creation of a memorial in Grozovo, Belarus, to Jews massacred during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Michael Lozman)

New York orthodontist restores Jewish history, one grave at a time

Michael Lozman’s cemetery-rehabilitation project educates college students and helps to reclaim Eastern Europe’s Jewish past

By Matt Lebovic

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Matt Lebovic

Colonial Jewish roots in America take center stage

A recent bequest to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and a record-breaking Sotheby’s auction illustrate growing appreciation of Judaica

Israeli team helps Boston fight back against trauma

It takes a village, say Israel’s top specialists as they reshape individual Bostonians’ suffering and refocus on the community as a source of resilience

Israeli music students in Boston play on, post-attack

Sabra musicians at the prestigious Berklee College of Music teach how the show must go on despite terror

Boston’s ‘week of terror’ evokes Israel for Jews

While the city’s community connects with interfaith partners, voices within question how it should approach American Muslims

The ultimate emblem of resistance: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On the revolt’s 70th anniversary, exploring how Jews fought to determine their own fates and how that ethos influenced Israel

Dr. Seuss meets the Holocaust in student-made film

With a $1,700 budget, young filmmakers mesh storybook narration and a child’s perspective in new short ‘Wallace Seeks Solace’

Lost to the Nazis, then to flea markets, now back in use

Decades after the Holocaust, victims’ ritual objects fill European bazaars — but are being rescued by a new organization

75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria

On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film

The first time Hollywood exposed the Holocaust

Saturday marks 70 years since a daring, controversial ‘propaganda pageant’ demanded US action against the genocide

Lions and tigers and genocide? Oh yes

L. Frank Baum, the creator of Dorothy and ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ — opening Friday in the US — also dabbled in murderous racism

Author examines Holocaust trauma in a new generation

Inspired by her relatives’ differing responses — resilience and suicide — Allison Nazarian looks at survivors’ grandchildren

Survivor returns to Poland to dig up family history, literally

In a new documentary, Izzy Arbeiter honors a promise to his father made just before the family’s deportation to Treblinka

New cultural quarter resurrects Amsterdam’s Jewish past

Dutch capital earns international notice for efforts to rebuild a presence almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust

Crime novelist finds ‘Truth’ in anti-Semitic blood libel

Polish writer Zygmunt Miłoszewski explains how an ancient lie inspired his latest book — newly available in English — and reflects on the charged history of Jews in Poland

New York orthodontist restores Jewish history, one grave at a time

Michael Lozman’s cemetery-rehabilitation project educates college students and helps to reclaim Eastern Europe’s Jewish past

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