Features
Fixing broken hearts in Israel
Dina Kraft, JTAJun 16, 2011
HOLON, Israel Just two days earlier but a world away, 8-year-old Salha Farjalla Khamis said goodbye to her parents and four siblings in her village on the African...
The man behind Chabad — ‘We measure success in small increments’
Chris LeppekJun 10, 2011
WRITING a thumbnail biography on Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky is no small challenge, at least if one follows the rabbis own guidelines. By his own definition, the rabbi is...
Russian immigrants’ turning point in Israel: Dolphinarium terror attack
Dina Kraft, JTAMay 26, 2011
TEL AVIV Faina Dorfman, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan hoping that her only child would have a better life here, walks along a stretch of beach just south...
AJA’s 40th birthday: a proud history, an exciting future
Larry HankinMay 19, 2011
Present at Creation 1971 Allied Jewish Apartments to Open in August, Intermountain Jewish News, July 9, 1971: Paul Miller, president of the of Allied Jewish Housing,...
From Vitebsk to Denver, deputy at county jail is a Russian Jew
Chris LeppekMay 12, 2011
WHEN Captain Jacob Kopylov begins his 12-hour shift as a watch commander in one of the several Denver County jails where he works, he knows hell be overseeing some...
‘My mother saved hundreds at Bergen-Belsen’
Shana GoldbergMay 12, 2011
NEW YORK Sunday, May 13, 1945, five days after the end of WW II in Europe, was Mothers Day in the US. At Bergen-Belsen in Germany, however, there was […]
Oral histories document Israeli struggle for independence
Dina Kraft, JTAApr 28, 2011
RAMAT GAN, Israel Ruth Farhis eyes cloud with tears and her gaze turns from the camera recording her story as she tells of a memorable January night in 1948...
In the spirit of the Mishnah…freeing up the seder
JTAApr 14, 2011
By David Arnow, JTA SCARSDALE, NY — You can find the secret to creating lively Passover seders in a surprising place the 1,800-year-old law code, the Mishnah....
Baking your own matzah
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAApr 14, 2011
LOS ANGELES In every generation, the Haggadah tells us, the wise, the simple, the non-askers and even the baddies are obligated to see themselves as though they...
‘West Side Stories’: The movie that Denver Jews cannot stop talking about
Andrea JacobsApr 14, 2011
“West Side Stories,” an hour-long documentary about Denver’s Jewish shtetl of long ago, induces tears of nostalgia in those who grew up in its Yiddish arms. People...
