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This doll is Lore Mayerfeld’s direct link to the events of Kristallnacht. (Yad Vashem/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 9, 2018, 7:09 pm
A girl’s doll is a poignant reminder of the horrors of Kristallnacht
Lore Mayerfeld donates a children’s toy to a new Yad Vashem exhibition — one which she carried as her family fled to the US after the pogrom indicating the onset of the Holocaust
By Hillel Kuttler
Pickles have been associated with old-time New York City, and its Lower East Side neighborhood, which once teemed with Jewish immigrant vendors. (Buyenlarge/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 27, 2018, 1:48 pm
As pickles conquer the mainstream, are they still a ‘Jewish’ food?
At the Pickledelphia festival, American Jews come to jarring realization that the salty cukes have made it out of the Lower East Side
By Stephen Silver
Bertha Reynolds, born Bertha Hurwitz in Poland, served as a White House secretary in the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. (Courtesy of Shirley Thaler/via JTA)
May 3, 2018, 2:58 am
Recalling Aunt Bertie, the longest-serving Jewish staffer in White House history
An old suitcase schlepped down from the attic turns out to contain a trove of historical American treasures from a woman who, in a hostile-to-Hebrews world, worked with giants
By Steve North
Actors perform the opera 'Morning Star' at the Eldridge Street Synagogue on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (Pavel Antonov)
March 22, 2018, 2:55 pm
In historic NY shul, opera resurrects victims of tragic Shirtwaist Factory fire
Actors belt lyrics from balconies in ‘Morning Star,’ a production about 20th century greenhorns, held in the very Eldridge Street Synagogue where their characters once worshiped
By Danielle Ziri
Left to right: Naomi Strand of Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDCR), Kim Berman of Kadima, and Wendy Pantoja of NWDCR after the award ceremony. (Tomas Madrigal)
January 26, 2018, 10:15 pm
Seattle synagogue gives inaugural ‘tikkun olam’ award to immigrant rights group
Seeing a parallel with Jewish history, the Reconstructionist Kadima congregation honors Northwest Detention Center Resistance in solidarity against Trump administration policy
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
German Neo-Nazis at a rally in Dresden, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
January 25, 2018, 10:35 am
Alleged German neo-Nazi on trial for targeting Jewish immigrants in 2000 bombing
Ralf S. accused of attempted murder with ‘racist’ motive 18 years after attack in Dusseldorf injured 10; probe reopened after he ‘bragged’ about masterminding attack
By Richard HEISTER and Deborah Cole
Moishe Mana at a party in Miami, December 6, 2017. (Romain Maurice/Getty Images for InList)
January 23, 2018, 3:28 am
Israeli who founded NY Moishe’s Moving empire wants to make NJ an artists’ mecca
After pulling himself up by his bootstraps, Moishe Mana hopes to give budding creatives the affordable space and community they need to thrive
By Ben Sales
A Jewish family in Jedrzejow, Poland, circa 1900. (Imagno/Getty Images via JTA)
January 12, 2018, 11:41 pm
When Jews came from ‘shithole’ countries
While US president’s reported comment focused on Haiti, African countries, Jewish immigrants to America were also once considered ‘undesirable’
By Ben Sales
Luzer Twersky, left, and Ronit Asheri in 'Awake and Sing!' at Manhattan's 14th Street Y. (Pedro Hernandez/via JTA)
December 11, 2017, 1:05 am
Go figure: A classic play sounds more American when it is performed in Yiddish
Today’s immigration issues lend an even more contemporary ring to a translation of Clifford Odets’s ‘Awake and Sing!’ playing at Manhattan’s 14th Street Y through December 24
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jack Warner, of the Warner Bros. and the famous Warner Bros. water tower. (Jack Warner/public domain; image of tower/ traveljunction.com)
November 9, 2017, 10:45 pm
Hollywood’s success, and sex scandals, go back to some of its founding fathers
Today’s disturbing allegations are not unprecedented. A spotlight on Jack Warner, co-founder of one of the biggest movie studios, who was accused of ‘womanizing’ decades ago
By Rich Tenorio
Children posing for a photo in hats that read 'Exodus 1947' in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. (Robert Gary/via JTA)
October 7, 2017, 2:52 pm
Incredible photos of Holocaust survivors from the SS Exodus up for auction
Under the hammer on October 31, journalist Robert Gary’s album of post-Holocaust life in DP camps is one of the highest-quality records to survive
By Andrew Tobin
Survivors gathered around the Exodus memorial, July 18, 2017. (Laura Ben-David)
July 27, 2017, 12:31 pm
In pictures, the 70th anniversary of the SS Exodus in Haifa
Israelis honor the sacrifice made by over 4,500 Holocaust survivors and potential immigrants who were sent back to Germany by the British
By Laura Ben-David
An empathy-building piece on why the Irish immigrated to England at London's Museum of Immigration and Diversity. (Ed Marshall/19 Princelet Street)
June 23, 2017, 12:30 am
A year after Brexit vote, London museum pays tribute to living history with refugee installation
The townhouse at 19 Princelet St. has been a gateway for Huguenots, Irish, Jewish and Asian immigrants. Now, as London’s Museum of Immigration and Diversity, it is a testament to valuable newcomers
By Robert Philpot
Eliezer Jaffe. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 30, 2017, 6:26 pm
Father of Israeli social work dies after winning lifetime achievement award
American-born Eliezer Jaffe led numerous government programs to help needy, founded trailblazing academic program
By JTA
(L to R) Nefesh B'Nefesh 2015 Bonei Zion Prize recipients: Professor Charles Sprung; Chana Reifman Zweiter; Rabbi Dr. Seth Farber; Tal Brody; Staff Sgt. Asaf Stein, PhD; Asher Weill; and Jon Medved (Photo credit: Sasson Tiram)
May 16, 2017, 9:56 pm
7 immigrants to receive awards for contributing to Israel
Nefesh B’Nefesh to grant English-speaking winners Bonei Zion Prize at Knesset ceremony in June
By JTA
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