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A protest organized by a large number of Jewish groups gathers outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Headquarters to protest ICE raids and arrests in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images, via JTA)
March 12, 2026, 9:01 am
‘Do not oppress the stranger’: 1,000-plus US rabbis sign letter backing immigrant rights
Ahead of HIAS’s annual ‘Refugee Shabbat,’ Jewish clergy from 45 states invoke biblical commandments, say ‘tradition is clear’ in support of refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers
By Grace Gilson
Naveh Shoham is seen upon his arrival to Israel after 50 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, where he was held with his sister Yahel, 3, mother Adi and grandmother Shoshan Haran, 67, on November 25, 2023. (courtesy)
June 23, 2024, 9:06 pm
Freed hostage, 9, exchanges letters with pope, asking for help to free captive father
‘It would be better if we played [soccer] together instead of shooting at each other,’ writes Naveh Shoham, recalling grandfather, who took him to games and was murdered by Hamas
By ToI Staff
One of Carl Jung's many letters to his student, Dr. Rivkah Schärf Kluger. (Kedem Auction House)
May 20, 2022, 1:48 pm
Letters by Jung showing interest in Jewish texts up for auction
While most of the collection, addressed to psychoanalyst Rivkah Schärf Kluger, deals with psychiatry, some never-before-seen letters show Jung’s fascination with Hebrew writings
By ToI Staff
Ilana Sporta Hania, a 65-year-old resident of Ashkelon, suspected of sending envelopes containing bullets to the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on May 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 13, 2022, 12:01 pm
Netanyahu condemns woman who allegedly sent PM and family menacing letters, bullets
Opposition leader says political activist Ilana Sporta Hania, 65 of Ashkelon, will be expelled from Likud if claims proven true
By Michael Horovitz
Yoni Bennett, the son of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 28, 2022, 5:46 pm
Resign or we’ll harm your family, letters with bullets said to warn PM Bennett
For second time this week, letter with death threats and a bullet sent to prime minister’s family; Thursday’s was addressed to his teenage son
By ToI Staff
A letter written by Albert Einstein on December 26, 1928, and addressed to 12-year-old Los Angeles resident Arthur L. Cohen, regarding the laws of motion as they relate to his theories of relativity. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
April 26, 2022, 2:52 pm
Einstein’s letter to a 12-year-old boy from LA up for auction
In 1928 letter, written by Einstein shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize, he replies to a question posed by Arthur L. Cohen about the physics of motion
By ToI Staff
Visitors are pictured in the Israel pavilion during a media tour ahead of the opening of the Dubai Expo 2020 in the Gulf Emirate on September 27, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
October 31, 2021, 5:33 pm
Featured at Dubai Expo, a mixed Hebrew-Arabic script takes on new purpose
Revolutionary half-half lettering system ‘Aravrit’ was created to enable Jews and Palestinians to relate to each others’ language. Now it’s helping Israel and Arab nations connect
By Shira Hanau
Ullmann family photos (Elisabeth Åsbrink)
April 20, 2020, 12:52 pm
Letters reveal curious tie between Jewish refugee and Nazi-admiring IKEA founder
Initially, IKEA’s Ingvar Kamprad was happy to cooperate with Elisabeth Åsbrink’s book on his Jewish friend. Then she found a 1943 file showing he’d been a Swedish Nazi party member
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Holocaust survivor Sala Kirschner in a trailer, published March 10, 2012, to a book about letters she concealed from the Nazis titled "Sala's Gift." (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 15, 2018, 12:33 pm
Holocaust survivor whose hidden letters became a book dies at 94
Polish native Sala Kirschner concealed hundreds of photos and cards from Nazis in Auschwitz, kept them secret for decades before making them public
By JTA
Albert Einstein. (AP Photo)
March 14, 2018, 12:30 pm
Albert Einstein’s candid letters to his sister to be auctioned
Collection includes rare acknowledgements of his discoveries’ importance; thoughts on fame and his waning brilliance
By ToI Staff
Some items from the estate of Oskar Schindler's wife Emilie up for auction on December 8, 2017. (Lawrences Auctioneers)
November 8, 2017, 3:59 pm
‘Thank you’ letters to Schindler up for auction
You have ‘restored my faith in mankind,’ reads one missive sent to couple who saved over a thousand Jews from Holocaust gas chambers
By ToI Staff
A picture taken on October 19, 2017, shows Gal Wiener, owner and manager of the Winner's auction house in Jerusalem, displaying two notes written by Albert Einstein, in 1922, on hotel stationary from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan. A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
October 24, 2017, 8:19 pm
Einstein’s modest theory of happiness sells for $1.56 million
Winning bid for German-Jewish physicist’s formula for joy far dwarfs auction house estimate of $5,000-$8,000
By AFP
Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)
October 22, 2017, 8:45 pm
Revealed and for sale: Albert Einstein’s formula for happy living
Physicist penned the advice, in lieu of a tip, for a courier, during a 1922 lecture tour in Tokyo. Now his note is up for auction
By AFP
Illustrative: Message inside of a bottle sent by Palestinian children in Gaza as part of UNRWA campaign. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 20, 2017, 10:05 am
Gaza fisherman catches message in a bottle from Greece
Jihad al-Soltan finds bottle in his net six weeks after a British couple set it afloat into the Mediterranean Sea
By ToI Staff
Can you read these words? Aravrit from Liron Lavi Turkenich's Facebook page
June 1, 2017, 5:52 am
Can you read ‘Aravrit,’ the typography of peace?
With Hebrew below and Arabic above, Liron Lavi Turkenich designs revolutionary lettering all Israelis and Arabs can understand
By Andrew Tobin
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