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Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
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Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
By Shira Li Bartov
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Cathryn J. Prince, author of 'For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman.' (Courtesy)
April 26, 2026, 6:13 am
From child laborer to union leader: Too-relevant story of 20th-century immigrant Pauline Newman
In ‘For the Love of Labor,’ ToI contributor Cathryn J. Prince follows the Lithuanian-born labor activist who blazed trails fighting sexism and classism in her new homeland, America
By Rich Tenorio
Federal Minister Karin Prien wears a Star of David in her official government portrait. (Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)
March 26, 2026, 2:08 pm
Meet Karin Prien, who could become Germany’s first president of Jewish descent
A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, the highly popular federal minister wears a Star of David necklace and says her ‘Jewish biography’ shapes her politics and public identity
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is installed as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 11, 2026. (Courtesy RA via JTA)
March 20, 2026, 3:08 am
Berlin rabbi makes history as first European to head Conservative rabbis’ association
In a ‘major step forward’ in relations between US and German Jews of the major denomination, Rabbi Gesa Shira Ederberg is also likely the first convert to Judaism to assume the leadership role
By Toby Axelrod
Rachel Goldberg-Polin poses for a portrait on day 98 since her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped by Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
March 19, 2026, 12:54 pm
USA Today names Rachel Goldberg‑Polin as a Woman of the Year
Lauding mother of slain American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, paper says her ‘cadence, her analogies, her stories, remind us of what it’s like to be human’
By Sue Surkes
Esther Scroll scribed by Stellina bat Menachem in Venice, 1564. Braginsky Collection, Zurich, Switzerland. The artifact is part of the exhibition “The Girl Who Wrote” between March and September 2026. (Ardon Bar-Hama, Ra'anana/Courtesy of The Braginsky Collection, Zurich)
March 3, 2026, 3:22 pm
Her-storical documents: 2 Esther scrolls copied by female scribes celebrate Jewish resilience
The only two known ancient megillahs written by women are part of a new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, whose opening has been postponed due to the Iran war
By Rossella Tercatin
Lore Segal gestures during an interview in New York, February 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
January 28, 2026, 4:09 pm
NYC exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a Holocaust child refugee and skeptic of easy truths
‘And That’s True Too,’ on display through April 15, traces the New Yorker contributor’s arc from Kindertransport to the Big Apple, where she dazzled with novels, short stories and kids’ books
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Carole King performs in New York's Central Park on May 26, 1973. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File)
December 28, 2025, 2:33 am
How ‘Natural Woman’ Carole King defied societal expectations to achieve pop stardom
Former Forward editor Jane Eisner’s new biography tracks the Jewish artist from her native NYC to California, where she recorded hit album ‘Tapestry,’ through multiple marriages in Idaho
By Rich Tenorio
Hungarian-American chess grandmaster Susan Polgar. (Renata Goreczki)
October 25, 2025, 8:06 am
Skewering antisemites and sexists, a chess queen recounts her journey to the top
In new memoir, ‘Rebel Queen,’ Hungarian Jewish grandmaster Susan Polgar details attacking the forces that tried, and failed, to put her in check on the way to becoming a world champion
By Rich Tenorio
The cover of "Pedal Pusher" by Mary Boone; the author at a book fair. (Courtesy of Mary Boone via JTA)
October 22, 2025, 1:49 am
Citing DEI ban, US base nixed kids’ event celebrating pioneering Jewish woman cyclist
Author says children’s museum on Washington military installation canceled a reading of ‘Pedal Pusher,’ a picture book about Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, who rode around the world on a bet
By Andrew Lapin
In her new book, 'As a Jew,' Sarah Hurwitz argues how Jews can reclaim a tradition that has too often been shaped by others' prejudices and ignorance. (HarperOne via JTA)
October 15, 2025, 4:24 am
Sarah Hurwitz wants Diaspora Jews to stop apologizing and reclaim their story
In her new book ‘As a Jew,’ the former White House speechwriter confronts the challenges of appreciating Jewish tradition at a time of rising antisemitism and a polarizing debate over Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Journalist and author of 'French Victims of Hamas,' Rachel Binhas, in Paris, June 2025. (Robert Sarner)
October 9, 2025, 3:01 am
Journalist explores France’s eerily telling response to its citizens’ murders on Oct. 7
With ‘French Victims of Hamas: Their Story, Our Silence,’ Rachel Binhas shines a light on local victims of the slaughter and her country’s disturbing reactions to the tragedy
By Robert Sarner
Director Marisa Fox holding a photo of her mother, Tamar Fromer-Fox (aka Hela Hocherman) in a scene from 'My Underground Mother.' (c) Marisa Fox, 2025. (Andrew Abrahams)
August 2, 2025, 1:45 pm
Journalist thought her Israeli freedom-fighter mother hid something big. She was right
In ‘My Underground Mother,’ premiering at the SF Jewish Film Festival, Marisa Fox grapples with her Polish-born mother’s motives for keeping secrets and hiding her true identity
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Shannon Seban, Renaissance party candidate for the European Parliament election, addresses an audience in Aubervilliers, northeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 1, 2024, ahead of the European Parliament elections. (Stephane De Sakutin / AFP)
July 31, 2025, 7:58 am
French politician vocally fights antisemitism as her country is poised to recognize Palestine
After being targeted by a ‘Nazi’ website, Shannon Seban has leaned into her Jewish identity, fighting hate on the left and right — including with her new book, ‘French, Jewish and So What?’
By Robert Sarner
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. (Courtesy of Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Library Special Collections)
July 28, 2025, 1:10 am
The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism
New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the West Coast, two-thirds of them US citizens, up to four years
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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