A descendant of hassidim and Zionist activists, Cockerell writes compellingly about our people’s wanderings, the need for a ...

The Rebbe rebuilt Chabad, a movement in ruins from Communism and the Holocaust, and made it into the global powerhouse of ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of ...

Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during Christmas.

Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian war, each side has cast its enemy as heirs to the Nazis of World War II. In Ukraine, this has ...

Upon his retirement from the Israeli Foreign Service exactly one year ago, Ben Zvi was replaced as ambassador in Moscow by ...

The head of my school’s DEI [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] said that calling for a Final Solution isn’t hate speech.” ...

Project Esther is such an approach. Named after the Jewish heroine from the story of Purim who saved the Jewish people from ...

Before we look ahead to 2025, the New York Jewish Week remembers the lives of 18 Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2024. In ...

A life-long learner, Ham radio operator, ardent Zionist, Reconstructionist rabbi whose wife Ilene Schneider also is a ...

At the foot of the Kremlin walls, the Chanukah candle was lit for the thirty-fifth time in a row. A thrill of excitement ran through the crowd as the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s image appeared on the screens, ...

She remembers her first, difficult years in America. "You are not hungry. This is not Siberia. You are not in exile.." ...