Nigerian Jewish youth connect, study
Special to the IJNSep 12, 2019
More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered in late August in Onithsa for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by Shavei Israel,...
Architects for Babi Yar Memorial announced
Special to the IJNSep 12, 2019
KIEV — Austrian architecture bureau Querkraft Architekten and landscape architects Kieran Fraser Landscape Design, also from Austria, have been selected to design the...
Excavations reveal inscriptions, bimah of Vilna’s Great Synagogue
Special to the IJNJul 25, 2019
VILNIUS, Lithuania — While excavating the premises of the Great Synagogue of Vilna complex in Vilnius’ old town, archaeologists have unveiled two out of four pillars...
‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’
Special to the IJNJun 27, 2019
Aviva Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” opening June 28 at Chez Artiste, is the first feature-length documentary to tell the real story of Morris “Moe”...
International soccer match fights hate
Special to the IJNMay 30, 2019
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When the New England Revolution and England’s Chelsea Football Club took the field on a chilly evening in mid-May at Gillette Stadium, home of...
L’Chaim! Israeli scientists brew beer with 5,000-year-old Egyptian yeast
Special to the IJNMay 23, 2019
JERUSALEM — What kind of beer did Pharaoh drink? In ancient times, beer was an important ingredient in people’s daily diet. Great powers were attributed to beer in...
World ORT honored with MLK award
Special to the IJNFeb 07, 2019
ORT received the Let Freedom Ring Humanitarian Award from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund in Detroit, Mich., on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day....
Tu b’Shevat — as we know it — got started in Nebraska
Special to the IJNJan 17, 2019
By Hizky Shoham It’s a little-known quirk of timing and history that the transformation of Tu b’Shevat from an obscure kabbalistic holiday can trace its origins to a...
Hundreds gather in Cheyenne to honor Pittsburgh victims
Special to the IJNNov 08, 2018
Mt. Sinai in Cheyenne held an interfaith anti-hate and memorial event, Oct. 29, to commemorate the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Dave Lerner,...
In Pittsburgh, thousands gather to mourn victims
Special to the IJNOct 30, 2018
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Chriss Swaney, The Forward Some 2,500 people gathered on Sunday at a memorial service for the 11 Jewish worshipers slain in their Pittsburgh...
