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In 2014, David Rosenberg was reunited with his birth mother Margaret Erle Katz thanks to the modern miracle of at-home DNA testing. Until then, Katz...
In 1996, Joanna Rakoff was among hundreds of recent university graduates working as assistants at New York publishing companies and literary agencies....
This year, COVID-19 competes with Haman as the villain of the Jewish holiday of Purim for India’s Bene Israel “kirtankars.” The kirtankars, a...
As a young teenager in 1998, Abraham Riesman met Stan Lee at a comic convention called Wizard World Chicago. Lee, known as the father of the Marvel...
People thought twice about messing with the Unreich brothers in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. There were seven sons in the family, and six of them were...
In a case of necessity being the mother of invention, a Canadian father recently started a company to address the unique fashion requirements of his...
As she grew up, Sigal Samuel secretly dreamed of becoming a rabbi. Instead, she became a journalist and author. “My family is Iraqi on my...
London 8th grader Mossy Simonson recently got a surprise bar mitzvah gift he’ll never forget. On January 17, famed American author Kwame Alexander...
Why, after more than a century of bloody conflict, have Israelis and Palestinians failed to reach a peace agreement? Israeli director Dror Moreh goes...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge pain for everyone, and migraine sufferers are no exception. In fact, many have reported more attacks than usual...
Over the course of the smash hit British television drama Downton Abbey‘s six seasons, author Jessica Fellowes produced five official companion...
By all outward appearances, the Galvins seemed to be an ordinary, albeit exceptionally large, family. Parents Don and Mimi met in New York and married...
German scientist Otto Hahn won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of nuclear fission. However, Hahn wasn’t alone in making the...
On January 6, 2020, Jacqueline Saper appeared on a PBS Newshour broadcast to comment on the assassination of Quassim Suleimani, military commander of...
Early 1920s newspaper ads for the blockbuster New York Yiddish stage shows Dos Khupe Kleyd (The Wedding Dress) and Yente Telebende (Loquacious...
On the morning of October 27, 2018, an anti-Semitic white supremacist armed with a semi-automatic weapon entered the Tree of Life synagogue in the...
As of October 22, nearly 228,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, surpassing all other countries. A new documentary film released just weeks before...
The Holocaust always fascinated author Max Gross. But while reading incessantly about the Nazis’ notoriously efficient genocide of the Jews, one...
When Czech-American Holocaust survivor Franci Rabinek Epstein wrote a frank, sexually explicit memoir of her wartime experiences in the mid-1970s, no...
German-Jewish refugee Rabbi Alexander Altmann was a respected scholar who served as the communal rabbi for Manchester, England from 1938 to 1959....
The new Netflix documentary “Athlete A” takes viewers behind the scenes of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked USA Gymnastics and put long-time...
A stunned Maria Schrader won the 2020 Emmy Award for her direction of the sleeper Netflix hit “Unorthodox.” The based-on-true-life miniseries...