Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023, I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the crisis in Israel or will be read through the lens of the war ...
About 60 children spent the morning with about 80 grandparents or special grown-ups on Jan. 5 at the Jack, Joseph and Morton ...
During World War Two, Andre Scheinmann became a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French while working undercover ...
Books by Elliot Abrams and Joshua Leifer take on a sense of growing division and uncertainty among American Jews.
Fanny framed the need to share Jewish stories in terms of education. She wanted others to learn about Jews. The implied reasoning behind this is that antisemitism emerges from a lack of knowledge, and ...
Before we look ahead to 2025, the New York Jewish Week remembers the lives of 18 Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2024. In ...
the story of millions of Jewish-owned books looted by Adolf Hitler’s forces is less familiar. In their efforts to annihilate Jews and their culture, the Nazis stole books from European libraries ...
A historian remembers the Conservative day school in Queens as it drops the Schechter name and becomes Orthodox.
Many books about Israel were published in 2024. These are the standouts. One need not agree with everything that the authors say (I certainly don’t) to acknowledge that these books are worth reading ...
A steady stream of museum visitors counted down to the first night of Hanukkah, take part in community service activities and ...