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Before he was King, Charles was patron of Cracow’s JCC
Steve LipmanSep 22, 2022
The founder of one of the first US-style Jewish community centers in the former-communist Eastern Europe, formed after the Iron Curtain fell three decades ago, says the...
7 Rosh Hashanah desserts that aren’t honey cake
JTASep 15, 2022
By Rachel Myerson, The Nosher We’ve probably all tried various versions of lekach, or honey cake, over the years. While this Rosh Hashanah treat has for...
Jewish cellist reunites descendants of Holocaust survivors
Penny Schwartz, JTAAug 25, 2022
On Aug. 18, against the odds, some 20 descendants of Julius Blach and his brother Felix Blach gathered for four days in Stralsund, Germany, where the Blachs lived and...
Hidden in the attic: Puppet resistance
Special to the IJNAug 25, 2022
By Dan Pine, j. the Jewish Weekly of Northern California Long before Frank Oz gained fame as the puppet master behind such characters as Miss Piggy and Yoda, he was...
Deep-sea wonderland near Tel Aviv
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21cAug 04, 2022
Sunlight does not reach the Palmahim Slide, a rare geological formation deep in the Mediterranean Sea about 30 kilometers (19 miles) off the coast of Tel Aviv.