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May 22, 2025, 5:27 AM

Behind the Headlines: When Hate Went Mainstream

Behind the Headlines: The History of Modern Israel is a series that looks beyond the news cycle to explore the key moments, ideas, and people that have shaped the modern State of Israel. Each article offers context, highlights often...

May 13, 2025, 7:50 AM

Olami Manhattan Took Me To Poland: Day Five (Part One)

Miriam Frankel stands in the barracks of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where countless individuals were forced to endure harsh conditions. Photo by Margaux Betesh.

Upon my return from Europe, I turned to my local library to further investigate the peregrinations and hardships faced by Jews during their internment in the Auschwitz concentration camps. Running my fingers along the bindings of countless volumes, I...

May 10, 2025, 8:48 AM

Climate Change, Frankenstein’s Monster and the HEP HEP Riots of 1819 (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2) Not only was the language and conceptual constructs of anti-semitism not at the disposal of the HEP HEP agitators, but neither was the whole library of racial literature and theory. It would be another forty years...

May 6, 2025, 8:49 PM

When will it ever end?

Introduction: The film “Jud Süß 1940,” which is better known in English as “The Jew Ziss” is considered to express topics directly or implicitly, such as Nazi ideology, relationship to the Jews, the Republic of Weimar, and the perception...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Apr 26, 2025, 11:00 PM

The Circumcisor

The Torah commands that when a Jewish boy is born, he should be circumcised on the eighth day (Lev. 12:3). The verb used in that passage to denote “circumcising” the child is yimol, and similar words for the act of...

Jeremy M Staiman

Apr 24, 2025, 1:26 PM

Room on the Kaddish Plate

Finding the listing of Chana’s grandmother in the Terezin Archive.

Mere hours prior to the onset of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), new discoveries about our family came to light. Would we find the answers to unanswerable questions? — If you’re young, and never had to say the Jewish memorial prayer...

Micah Ben David Naziri

Apr 22, 2025, 10:41 AM

Black Hebrew Israelite Paternal Jewishness Claim Debunked

The Hebrew Israelite and Black Hebrew Israelite movements are as diverse as they are controversial, but one thing that remains a point of contention between most of them and normative Judaism and Jewry (the same word in Hebrew, it...

Apr 17, 2025, 11:55 PM

Olami Manhattan Took Me To Poland: Day Four

In January, while writing an article on a new film titled Bardejov, I had a chance encounter that would change everything. I met Rabbi Shmuel Lynn, the film’s screenwriter, and, as I would soon discover, the Director of Olami...

Apr 12, 2025, 1:16 PM

Volya and Herut: One Fight for Freedom

Earlier this week, I woke up at 5 am to the harsh sound of an explosion. The windows were shaking, and the alarms of cars were going off. After making sure that my building was not damaged, I went...

Apr 6, 2025, 3:11 PM

When Art Is a History Marker: YIVO Commemorative Exhibition in Vilnius

Historical Art at the YIVO commemorating exhibition at the Vilnius Picture Gallery. (C) Gintare Grigenaite. LDNM

Historical Art and Sculpture at the the first in the world exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of YIVO Part IV. From the beginning of March 2025 and until mid-September, a special multi-genre exhibition is on display in the heart of...

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