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Aug 18, 2026, 12:26 AM

My One-Minute Prayer at Birkenau

Every visitor to Poland arrives with a different story. Some come as students. Some come as historians. Some come because their grandparents survived. Others come because their grandparents never left. Each deserves to remember in their own way. Before we arrived, I...

Lauren Gladstone

Aug 14, 2026, 8:21 AM

Can You Belong to a Place You’ve Never Lived?

Above the orignal entrance to "De Dierense Shul". Photo taken by the author

I have never prayed in the synagogue in Dieren, the Netherlands. I don't know the rabbi. I've never attended a Shabbat service there or celebrated a holiday with its congregation. I don't receive its emails or know the people...

Aug 13, 2026, 8:37 PM

Rabbi Michael Molho of Thessaloniki

At times, this blog will highlight important parts of the history of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki. In this first post, we will pay homage to Rabbi Michael Molho. Rabbi Michael Molho (Thessaloniki, 1890-Buenos Aires, 1964) was a prominent rabbi...

Aug 11, 2026, 6:07 AM

Unholy Vows: The Wolf in a Bishop’s Robe

In March 1971, readers of the United Israel Bulletin were confronted by a headline that left little room for ambiguity: “War Criminal Remains a Free Man in U.S.” Its editor, veteran United Nations correspondent David Horowitz, opened with an accusation...

Aug 10, 2026, 6:07 PM

Hungary’s Jews Need More Than a Pro-Israel President

Hungary is about to elect a new president, and this time the choice is not Viktor Orbán’s. Péter Magyar’s Tisza party, which won a landslide election in April and holds a constitutional majority in parliament, has nominated András Baka,...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:10 PM

Just a Shabbes. An Inner Magnet of Jewish Cultural Code

Michael Rogatchi (C). Freilax. Daily Miracles collection. Oil on canvas. 77 x 94 cm. 1995. The Rogatchi Art Collection.

Recently, we were lucky to attend a very nice Shabbat gathering on Friday evening, almost literally at the serene Baltic shore of Jurmala in Latvia, near its capital Riga. One can say that it has been one of many Shabbes...

Aug 4, 2026, 8:49 PM

Jews in European Art: An Albanian Portrait

The representation, caricature, and portrayal of Jews in European art is a phenomenon traceable at least to the Middle Ages. Art was frequently utilized for ideological, propagandistic, and political objectives by the Catholic and Protestant Churches, as well as...

Israel Ben Iosef

Aug 4, 2026, 2:48 PM

The Pyramid of Contemporary Global Egypt

Curiously, many of yesterday's exploiters are today accused of being slave owners simply for exploiting their fellow man... or not. Most of the time, people only talk about the victim's skin color, origin, culture or identity. It becomes news,...

Aug 2, 2026, 2:29 PM

In the Shadow of the Bronze Priest: An Athenian Pilgrimage

Each Step… A Story… From the bustle of modern Athens—traffic surging, shopkeepers calling, cafés spilling onto narrow sidewalks—the eye is drawn upward. Above the city, the limestone plateau of the Acropolis commands the horizon, crowned by the sun-bleached columns of...

Julian Ungar-Sargon

Aug 2, 2026, 9:14 AM

The City My Father Lost — Part I

Courtesy of Julian Ungar-Sargon

Some journeys are measured in miles. This one was measured in sentences — my father’s, which I had been carrying, unread, for sixty years. The Austrian Airlines flight came down over the Marchfeld in the late afternoon and I understood,...

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