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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Jewish immigrants

Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle, co-authors of 'Sabor Judio: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook.' (I. Rabchinskey /courtesy The University of North Carolina Press)
December 25, 2024, 9:18 am
Latkes con mole and other delicacies feature in this Mexican-Ashkenazi fusion cookbook
‘Sabor Judío’ by Ilan Stavans and Margaret E. Boyle contains more than just recipes from Eastern European immigrants to Mexico – it also dishes up a slice of Jewish history
By Penny Schwartz
Two Holocaust survivor families on the Vineland, New Jersey-area poultry farm they jointly purchased in 1947. From left to right: Dina and Dorothy Liverant, standing next to a visitor, with Ruth, Bronia, and Nuchim Grin, Seth Stern's mother and grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Stern)
September 2, 2023, 3:47 am
How Holocaust survivors flocked to NJ to start a thriving poultry farming industry
Seth Stern’s new book ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ tells how his grandparents joined thousands of other Jews in a plucky venture as they rebuilt their lives in rural America
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Immigrants fleeing from war zones in the Ukraine arrive at the Israeli immigration and absorption office, at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
March 8, 2023, 7:26 pm
Interior Ministry proposes law to restrict passports for new immigrants
Legislation would only allow new arrivals to receive documentation after residing in Israel for 1 year; ministry says some exploit benefits without settling down
By ToI Staff
Albert Einstein, left, and Henry Morgenthau Sr., former US ambassador to Turkey, in New York on May 13, 1935, during a dinner held to raise funds for the aid of the children of German-Jewish refugees. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)
January 21, 2023, 6:53 am
How the ‘Jewish Kennedys’ helped save 200,000 Jews in WWII and delayed Iranian nukes
A new book tells how over 150 years the Morgenthaus, a German-Jewish immigrant family, publicized the Armenian genocide, ran the US Treasury and prosecuted mobsters and terrorists
By JP O’ Malley
Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine arrive at the Israeli immigration and absorption office, at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 30, 2022, 12:44 pm
Likud said to oppose demand to abolish ‘grandchild clause’ in Law of Return
Netanyahu’s reported objection to legislation amendment that would significantly limit immigration to Israel is seen as attempt to avoid compromising Israel-Diaspora ties
By ToI Staff
The brains behind exhibit 'I’ll Have What She’s Having.' Cate Thurston is the pickle; Laura Mart is the fish; Lara Rabinovitch is the sandwich. (Jennifer Caballero)
September 8, 2022, 1:07 am
LA deli exhibit puts a little mustard on the Jewish-American immigrant tale
In ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having,’ open through September 18 at the Skirball Center and then in November in NY, curators say the way to understand US Jews is through their stomachs
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: A new housing complex, where former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee laid bricks at a housing complex in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on August 1, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel/File)
August 13, 2022, 1:57 am
In 2021, American immigrants again moved to settlements far more than other arrivals
Fresh figures released by Central Bureau of Statistics show roughly one out of every 10 people who arrived to Israel from the US made their way to a West Bank settlement
By Judah Ari Gross
Javier Sinay visits the Jewish cemetery in Moise Ville, Argentina, during a visit to the village in 2013. (Paula Salischiker/ via JTA)
June 24, 2022, 3:42 am
A series of 19th-century murders connects an Argentine writer to his family’s past
When Javier Sinay learned that his great-grandfather was a fellow journalist who covered the killing of shtetl immigrants, he connected with his Jewish roots – and wrote a hit book
By Julian Voloj
Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of nuclear powered submarines, boards the USS Nautilus from the Navy Tug 534 in the Narrows below Brooklyn, New York on August 25, 1958. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 11, 2022, 1:17 am
How a Jewish immigrant from the shtetl became the father of America’s nuclear Navy
Abrasive, controversial and tenacious, Admiral Hyman Rickover was called ‘the greatest engineer to ever live’ by Jimmy Carter. A new biography tells his incredible life story
By Rich Tenorio
Gary Brownstein, one of Acme Smoked Fish's production managers, started at the company in 1975. He is the grandson of Harry Brownstein, the company's founder. (Michael Harlan Turkell/via JTA)
May 25, 2022, 4:28 am
47-year veteran of Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish celebrates his final ‘Fish Friday’
Gary Brownstein, 3rd-generation member of the Jewish immigrant family that founded the iconic company in 1906, has charmed customers with creative specials like Mango Avocado Poke
By julia GERGELY
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 17, 2022, 12:52 pm
Minister defends calling out ‘white hypocrisy’ of colleagues over refugee policy
Pnina Tamano-Shata says she couldn’t remain silent in cabinet meeting marred by offensive jokes; defends ongoing efforts to take in Ukrainian refugees, despite setbacks
By ToI Staff
David Sipress and cover of memoir 'What's So Funny?' (Photo by Nina Subin, cover courtesy of Mariner Books/ via JTA)
March 15, 2022, 3:52 am
New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress smiles through the pain in a new memoir
In ‘What’s So Funny?’ the Jewish son of Eastern European immigrants talks about growing up in New York, defying his parents’ expectations and finding inspiration in everyday life
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid visits the Siret crossing on Romania's border with Ukraine, March 13, 2022. (Government Press Office)
March 13, 2022, 6:08 pm
Lapid: Israel has moral duty to let in more non-Jews; ‘unforgivable’ airport scenes
Touring Romania-Ukraine border region, FM says country should be ‘much more generous’; Labor MK Kariv: Entry cap put in place due to ‘nationalist ideology’
By ToI Staff
Screenshot from Israeli Channel 12 footage, broadcast on March 10, 2022, of refugees from war in Ukraine waiting for hours in crowded conditions at Ben Gurion Airport. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 10, 2022, 9:38 pm
Refugees fleeing war in Ukraine kept waiting for hours at Israel’s airport
Interior Minister Shaked orders all waiting refugees be moved to hotel, after footage shows people massed in a closed terminal for lengthy periods without basic provisions
By ToI Staff
Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett seen with Jewish immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine, onm a rescue flight sponosred by the IFCJ, at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 6, 2022. (Hadas Parush/Pool)
March 10, 2022, 9:32 pm
Bennett says Israel ‘must open doors and hearts’ to Jewish Ukrainian refugees
PM vows state will not repeat ‘mistakes’ made with previous immigration waves, as footage circulates of refugees held for days at Ben Gurion Airport without basic necessities
By ToI Staff
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