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World’s Largest Online Database of Jewish Art Preserves At-Risk Heritage Objects | Smart News | Smithsonian The vast landscape of Siberia is dotted with long-abandoned synagogues, the crumbling relics of Jewish communities that once lived there. In 2015, Vladimir Levin, … Continue reading →

Investigators Are Turning to Big Data to Find Who Betrayed Anne Frank | Smart News | Smithsonian On a warm August morning in 1944, SS officers stormed into an Amsterdam warehouse and arrested Anne Frank, her parents, her sister and … Continue reading →

How American Independence Democratized Judaism, Too | ReformJudaism.org The values of the American Revolution – liberty, freedom, and especially democracy – profoundly affected the small colonial Jewish community and laid the groundwork for the emergence of Reform Judaism in America. … Continue reading →

The more Americans learn about Israel, the less they like it, study suggests – U.S. News – Haaretz.com What do you think of when you think of Italy? Maybe you picture beautiful works of art set against rolling Tuscan hills. … Continue reading →

Netanyahu must choose between ultra-Orthodox and US Jews Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to beat a hasty retreat from the Conversion Law (rejecting Reform and Conservative conversions) after it was passed by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on June … Continue reading →

Justice for Shylock: A Mock Appeal Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Venice Ghetto – YouTube Streamed live on Jun 21, 2017 The program is a mock appeal of Shylock’s case from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, taking place after the … Continue reading →

Ynetnews News – The nuclear batteries and the secret listening devices His name was Zalman Shapiro, a member of a family of Holocaust survivors living in America; only now, a year after his death, did his great secret see the … Continue reading →

Can an alphabet merging Hebrew and Arabic promote coexistence? – Israel News – Haaretz.com Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich … Continue reading →

Books, khaki shorts and falafel: The life of young Israelis in the state’s first decade There was no television, but the radio was very popular; there wasn’t much to eat except for the national dish; people didn’t go on dates … Continue reading →

The Rabbi Who Tracked Down Nazis In the spring of 1965, about 30 members of the 500-person strong American Nazi Party discreetly met in a cramped apartment on 114th Street and Broadway in New York City. It had been two … Continue reading →