Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel started out in its standard manner here in Jerusalem. As the sun set Sunday night, the city ground to a halt as pretty much all commerce shut down. The Adopt-A...
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Numbered, Nagila: Two Highlights of the NYJFF
The sixteen-day 22nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presented by The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ended last week. Two of the standout documentaries they screened were...
Bits and Pieces of Jewliciousness
The Israeli government’s hoped for move to the center is dashed by a failure to agree on a universal draft law that would apply to Ultra Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. So Kadima broke up with...
Stupid ADL / Urban Outfitters Holocaust T-Shirt (Non) Controversy
This is just ridiculous, I mean am I missing something here? See, Urban Outfitters had this t-shirt that they were selling online. Designed by a Danish clothing brand called Wood Wood, the shirt...
Yom Hashoah: From the Depths of our Souls
Survivors are disappearing. We are left with stories, fragments, articles, films, interviews. But nothing can capture the enormity of what happened between 1939-1945. Nothing. After spending years in...
A Wooden Synagogue is Rising from the Ashes
In the course of World War II, an entire class of architecture was obliterated: the elaborate and sophisticated wooden synagogues of Poland. Not a single example of these remarkable structures...