In Denver, global effort underway to photograph every living Holocaust survivor
JTAApr 25, 2019
YOM HASHOAH 5779 By Lior Zaltzman At first, it seems like John and Amy Israel Pregulman nailed the ideal “digital nomad” lifestyle. The very-much-in-love couple...
Six Jewish takeaways from the Mueller reports
JTAApr 25, 2019
By Josefin Dolsten and Laura E. Adkins NEW YORK — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election was...
Israel will get Kafka archives, court rules
JTAApr 25, 2019
ZURICH — A Swiss court ruled that the archive of the renowned Jewish writer Franz Kafka must be handed over to Israel, ending a decade-long dispute. The Zurich...
Measles outbreak started in Ukraine, traveled to Israel, Brooklyn
JTAApr 11, 2019
JERUSALEM — Israel’s measles outbreak took off in September after thousands of mostly chasidic Orthodox pilgrims brought the virus back from Uman, Ukraine. Tens of...
Jewish coach heads to Final Four
JTAApr 04, 2019
By Marc Brodsky AUBURN, Ala. — Bruce Pearl has won plenty of accolades and championships in a basketball coaching career spanning nearly three decades, including...
‘Proud Jewish sled dogs’ cross the finish line
JTAMar 21, 2019
By Emily Burack NOME, Alaska — Writer and adventurer Blair Braverman raced in — and completed — the historic Iditarod sled dog race, finishing the grueling...
South African exhibit highlights Operation Moses
JTAMar 21, 2019
By Moira Schneider CAPE TOWN — In 1983, when Danny Abebe was nine years old, his Jewish family decided one Rosh Hashanah night to leave their remote village in...
Einstein manuscript reveals concern about Nazism
JTAMar 14, 2019
JERUSALEM — Albert Einstein writes about science and concern over the rise of the Nazis in Germany in 110 new manuscript pages made public, for the first time, at The...
Ketubah affirms life in the midst of death
JTAMar 07, 2019
By Henry Abramson JERUSALEM — It is jarring to see a Star of David placed between the Hebrew transliteration of the words Bergen-Belsen, the notorious Nazi...
Vatican to open secret archive on Holocaust-era pope
JTAMar 07, 2019
ROME — The Vatican secret archive relating to controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII will be opened next year. Pope Francis made the announcement at an audience...
