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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

Shira Li Bartov

Jesse Eisenberg arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
March 8, 2025, 3:26 pm
Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar
At NY ceremony, actor, screenwriter and director tells Polish president it’s the ‘honor of a lifetime’; movie ‘A Real Pain’ tells story of 2 cousins exploring family’s Holocaust history
By Shira Li Bartov
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
Rabbi Irena Gritsevskaya leads prayers from a new Ukrainian-language siddur. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter, TALI, Masorti Olami via JTA)
February 28, 2025, 5:40 am
On anniversary of Russia-Ukraine war, isolated Ukrainian Jews translate their prayers
Many in the Jewish community seek translations of sacred texts as a way of fighting for their national and religious identity. A new children’s prayer book marks the latest addition
By Shira Li Bartov
The Czech-Jewish composer Victor Ullman, left, was murdered during the Holocaust; Pavel Kling, right, survived and later became the concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. (Courtesy Louisville Orchestra via JTA)
January 25, 2025, 12:16 am
Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt
After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ will honor him
By Shira Li Bartov
A boy visiting the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Mechelen, Belgium, on December 22, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
January 23, 2025, 9:03 am
No need for Belgium’s railway to pay for sending Jews to death camps, panel finds
Government commission concludes Belgian National Railway Company should apologize for WWII transports; Holocaust restitution group pans outcome
By Shira Li Bartov
Estonia's Prime Minister Kristen Michal speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, December 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
December 20, 2024, 6:38 am
Estonian government rebukes university for cutting ties with Israeli institution
Estonian Academy of Arts says it’s now reviewing decision to cancel workshop by visiting professor from Shenkar College, after premier and FM condemn move
By Shira Li Bartov
The Central Synagogue of Aleppo, which sustained minor damage in apparent shelling in an undated photo provided on February 10, 2016. (The Amaliah Organization)
December 13, 2024, 6:35 am
Assad’s downfall spurs effort to assess fate of Jewish relics in Syria
Archaeologist cautions that nature of next regime will ultimately determine whether gems of country’s Jewish history can continue to survive after years of neglect and war
By Shira Li Bartov
Arthur Harari (right) as attorney Georges Kiejman in 'The Goldman Case.' (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/Moonshaker)
December 4, 2024, 1:35 am
Award-winning French film about Jewish radical shrouded in mystery makes US debut
‘The Goldman Case’ tells the story of Pierre Goldman, who was convicted of murdering two pharmacists in a robbery before a retrial cleared him of the charges
By Shira Li Bartov
Police officers clear people away from Dam Square during an anti-Israel protest in Amsterdam on November 10, 2024. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP via JTA)
November 12, 2024, 4:24 pm
Amsterdam Jews are reeling from ongoing attacks, fear cops can’t protect them
Organized, widespread beatings of Israeli soccer fans led to a temporary ban on protests, which anti-Israel activists are ignoring, and violence is continuing
By Shira Li Bartov and ToI Staff
A woman passes the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 7, 2024, 11:09 am
Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust and are now just a few thousand
By Shira Li Bartov
Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks via JTA)
October 14, 2024, 7:08 am
‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as Holocaust survivor who guides wayward grandson
Author of children’s book that movie is based on says it is important that non-Jews help carry on lessons of Holocaust; film debuted this month after delay due to Hollywood strike
By Shira Li Bartov
Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague's Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 11, 2024. (Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)
October 13, 2024, 11:32 pm
Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust
Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the crowds expected for the sacred day
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: A flower lays on polished so-called 'Stolpersteine' or 'stumbling stones' commemorating people deported and killed by the Nazis, in front of a resident building in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2021, the 83th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 10, 2024, 5:21 am
German town’s memorial stones for Nazi victims stolen on Oct. 7 anniversary
Officials in Zeitz react with horror to dislodging of 10 ‘Stolpersteine,’ with mayor denouncing it as ‘an attack on our democracy’
By Shira Li Bartov
Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in 'Nobody Wants This.' (Stefania Rosini/Netflix)
September 30, 2024, 3:38 am
Real-life rabbi coached the ‘overtly Jewish’ scenes on Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’
Series about interfaith relationships is based on filmmaker’s own conversion to Judaism before marrying her Jewish husband. She enlisted her rabbi to make it real on screen
By Shira Li Bartov
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
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