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Robin Bigga-Piskernig, second from right, is interning as part of an Austrian program that sends youth abroad to learn and teach about the Holocaust. From left, art teacher Janet Lust Ganes, foundation president Olivia Mattis, two students from Lawrence High School and foundation administrator Matthew Spirn take part in an art exhibit dedicated to Sousa Mendes, a Holocaust rescuer. (Courtesy Sousa Mendes Foundation via JTA)
June 28, 2026, 4:25 pm
Austria once denied its Nazi past. Now it sends young people abroad to confront it
Instead of military service, Austrian volunteers can work in nonprofits around the world, helping preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its victims
By Stewart Ain
Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)
April 14, 2026, 6:12 pm
With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up
Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity
By Stewart Ain
Clockwise from top left: Aleksandra B.'s grandson took his grandmother to a village 100 kilometers (62 miles) away to find safety; Lidia S., 97, drove with her daughter from Kyiv to Poland where they were able to maketheir way to Switzerland to stay with her grandson; Olympiada D. will be 100 in December 2022 and lives in Odessa; Alekander S., who will be 92 in June, is now in western Ukraine after escaping the bombing. (Courtesy of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous/via JTA)
May 14, 2022, 11:47 am
US group rushes to aid 15 Righteous Among Nations in Ukraine after Russia invasion
As war broke out, the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous expedited yearly payments to aging heroes seeking shelter from Russian shelling
By Stewart Ain
Clergy, members and guests celebrate the 100th anniversary of SAJ-Judaism that Stands for All, the flagship Reconstructionist synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, January 29, 2022. (Courtesy Comptroller Brad Lander/ via JTA)
February 9, 2022, 3:26 am
Manhattan synagogue marks its 100th year as Reconstructionist Judaism’s flagship
SAJ will host events throughout 2022 that examine the influence of founder Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and his movement on contemporary American Jewish life
By Stewart Ain
Inge Auerbacher, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Jamaica, Queens, poses with the books she's written. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
January 20, 2022, 2:33 am
New York-based survivor to address German parliament on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Inge Auerbacher follows the likes of Elie Wiesel and Shimon Peres in being invited to speak to the Bundestag, where she will discuss being sent to Theresienstadt as a child
By Stewart Ain
A number marks a Jewish grave, left, at the former Central Islip Psychiatric Center on New York's Long Island. A stone at right was added after the hospital began working with a Jewish burial society. (Patricia Desrochers/Touro Law Center/ via JTA)
December 10, 2021, 3:56 am
Families demand names where numbers mark Jewish graves at former NY psych hospital
In the cemetery of the now-defunct Central Islip Psychiatric Center, markers for the interred lack names. A nearby Jewish law school is helping relatives identify loved ones
By Stewart Ain
Eric Fischer and Danielle Clemons held their wedding on July 2, 2020 in her family's backyard in Armonk, New York with just 14 people. (Eric Fischer and Danielle Clemons/via JTA)
December 5, 2021, 3:03 am
US Jewish weddings are back — along with rising prices, staff shortages, uncertainty
Demand has skyrocketed as couples schedule nuptials that were on hold due to restrictions or health concerns, putting a strain on everyone, from rabbis to caterers and vendors
By Stewart Ain
Jack Reimer enters Federal District Court in Manhattan on August 17, 1998. (Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
November 6, 2021, 2:46 pm
3 House Democrats ask why 9 former Nazis weren’t deported, died naturally in US
Despite trials and convictions for taking part in the Holocaust, years of red tape and bureaucracy delayed justice until it was too late. Now, politicians ask for accountability
By Stewart Ain
The Forest Hills Jewish Center has been a fixture on Queens Boulevard since the late 1940s. (Jewish Week)
November 6, 2021, 4:08 am
Queens fixture the Forest Hills Jewish Center to sell its building and relocate
Congregants vote overwhelmingly in favor of selling the building, which dates back to the 1940s, and upgrading to newer facilities that will better suit a modern crowd
By Stewart Ain
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during opening day of the 2019 legislative session in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
August 11, 2021, 2:46 am
Kathy Hochul, set to replace Cuomo as NY governor, no stranger to state’s Jews
Lt. gov. was among first to call out recent antisemitism spurt in New York; made impression by attending meetings with US Jewish community leaders and touring Hasidic strongholds
By Stewart Ain
The Mercaz Academy will operate a Jewish day school in what had been the elementary school campus of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Plainview, Long Island. (Mercaz Academy/ via JTA)
August 7, 2021, 4:19 pm
Parents chip in to save a Long Island Jewish school — by buying it themselves
With the help of local leaders, the institution — to be reincarnated as the Mercaz Academy — will continue to serve the community, and retain its teaching staff
By Stewart Ain
Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Gutterman's Funeral Home, May 15, 2020, Woodbury, New York. (Photo by Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris Images)
May 11, 2021, 3:47 am
US synagogues touched by COVID adapt to serve grieving congregations
Reeling under a staggering number of deaths, many communities create support groups, hold online memorial services and hire social workers to help congregants cope with losses
By Stewart Ain
A healthcare worker tends to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in San Jose, California, January 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
January 22, 2021, 9:20 pm
In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community
With mortality rates in some places up 50% and nowhere to store bodies prior to burial, families wait weeks to bury their loved ones
By Stewart Ain
Rabbi Adir Yolkut, who is doing a yearlong rabbi-in-residence program at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York, says it's been hard to assess the intangibles of prospective jobs given the impossibility of in-person visits. (Emil Cohen/Marry Me A Little Photography/ via JTA)
January 4, 2021, 4:07 am
Starting a new job as a rabbi during the pandemic? For Americans, it’s not easy
With synagogues shuttered and services moved online, the health crisis affects everything from the hiring process to meeting congregants, even pre-graduation rabbinical fieldwork
By Stewart Ain
February 27, 2012, 9:40 am
Norman Finkelstein, the new darling of pro-Israel bloggers?
In a taped interview, Finkelstein derides the BDS campaign for covering up it is out to destroy Israel
By Stewart Ain
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