Rabbi at Cheder Chabad of Baltimore Aims to Grow Student Body and Yeshivah Presence
Cheder Chabad of Baltimore, a local yeshivah, has recently welcomed a new member into its ranks. Rabbi Elchonon Chaikin will serve as the school’s...
New Film Brings to Life ‘Largest Single Work of Art Created by a Jew...
Sarah Rosen | New York Jewish Week via JTA
While hiding from the Nazis, the German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon began a series of autobiographical...
Holocaust Book of Names to Be Inaugurated at U.N. Underscores Individual Identities of the...
Renee Ghert-Zand | JTA
When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders...
Chai Lifeline’s New Mid-Atlantic Director: Role Fills ‘Need to Give Back to Community’
Rabbi Kalman Akiva and Michal Kovac welcomed a new baby and Chai Lifeline into their growing family at exactly the same time. Michal was...
Three Sisters Travel to Germany to Lay Stones for Family Members Who Fled World...
Three sisters who grew up in Baltimore knew little about their mother fleeing Nazi Germany as a toddler. But an unexpected call from a...
In the Netherlands, a Majority Do Not Know the Holocaust Affected Their Country
A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education around...
One Month Ahead of Ukraine War Anniversary, JDC Widens Care for Jews in Europe
As the world prepares to commemorate one year since the start of the crisis in Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) continues and is expanding its...
AJC Survey on Holocaust Knowledge Among Americans Shows Few Know Numbers, Details
Most U.S. adults know when the Holocaust happened and are familiar with Auschwitz, but fewer are cognizant about the number of Jews murdered and...
Online Holocaust Denial Suppressed in English, Though Rife in Arabic
As International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 forces Jews to ask themselves how safe they feel, new data from CyberWell has revealed social-media...
‘Jews Out!’ German Board Game on Exhibit at Tel Aviv University Library
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new exhibition at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi...
