Features
Florida museum lands Wiesel trove
Special to the IJNMar 07, 2024
For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the...
Spiritual defense — ‘Partners in Protection’
Steve LipmanFeb 22, 2024
Elad ben Batya is the Hebrew name of the soldier, likely serving in Gaza during the last few months, in whose merit Terri Moore, a third-generation Jewish resident of...
They can’t keep Shabbat in Gaza, so we’ll do it
Deborah Fineblum, JNSJan 18, 2024
Through Shabbat 4 Soldier, Toronto households are keeping Shabbat — most for the first time — for soldiers who are fighting in Gaza.
At the shiva home of Ben Zussman
Special to the IJNDec 13, 2023
Personal essay from Israel: Visits to two shiva homes, including that of Ben Zussman, reveal the fabric of the Jewish people. When we blend together as one nation, we...
Frozen in time
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTANov 23, 2023
A pocket watch, frozen in time when the Titanic sank, sold at auction Nov. 18 for £83,000 ($101,600).
Unity of mind, and action, sweeps across Israel
Chaim GoldbergNov 09, 2023
Israel is experiencing an unprecedented, overwhelming force of unity. What does it look like? For starters, this is not a unity of words and platitudes. This time,...
Etrog — the wandering fruit
JTAOct 05, 2023
Together with Warren Klein, the curator of the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El, and Sharon Liberman Mintz, Josh Teplitsky’s probing into the history, use,...