History

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

How a group of Yiddish-speaking women forced monopolists to lower beef prices.

by Larry Domnitch

Emanuel Ringelbaum, a chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto, called that day in 1942 “the blackest day in Jewish history in modern times.”

by Yehudis Litvak

When David Engles translated his mother’s diary from Yiddish to English, written while hiding in a barn, he finally met the mother he’d barely gotten to know.

by Judy Gruen

Yitskhok Rudashevski’s stunning journal becomes an interactive, online museum exhibit.

by Avi Abrams

Eighty years ago 283 Jews were released by Nazi Germany and brought to the Land of Israel. This is their remarkable story.

by Yehudis Litvak

Before the Holocaust, many Jews deposited their money in Swiss banks in an attempt to secure their families’ future. It took decades and lawsuits for the heirs to recover the money. Some of them never did.

by Jonathan D. Sarna

Why Jews should care about the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

by Larry Domnitch

A horrific era when Jewish boys were forced into 25 years of Russian military service.

by Deborah Gastfreund Schuss

After 85 years, the 18^th century silver cup is returned to the owner’s great grandson.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Snapshots of Lincoln’s remarkable relationship with Jews.

by Yehudis Litvak

Stripped of their citizenship overnight by the Vichy French government, Jews of Algeria formed a Resistance group, providing invaluable assistance to the Allied forces.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

This loaded Arabic term has a long and surprising history.

by Rabbi Menachem Levine

How the traitorous Jew who helped bring Stalin to power discovered that a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

by Menucha Chana Levin

In 1947 a Jewish boy, 16, was kidnapped from Jerusalem and never seen again. His alleged abductor, a British WWII hero, apparently got away with murder.

by Yehudis Litvak

As a teen in Vienna during WWII, Georg Rauch suddenly discovered his mother was a Jew. Then he got called up into the German army.

by Rabbi Ken Spiro

The Treaty of San Remo redrew the map of the region and sowed the seeds of long-standing geopolitical conflicts.

by Raquel

Henry Wermuth broke out of his labor camp to try to kill Hitler.

by Rabbi Mordechai Becher

I am upset about the rampant antisemitism on campus. But I’m not surprised. History has taught us that you can be well-educated, cultured and utterly evil.

by Yehudis Litvak

Meet some of the unsung heroes who deciphered enemy communications which proved crucial to winning the war.

by Hanna Perlberger

Major setbacks in Jewish history proved to be the springboard for extraordinary new adventures in Jewish spirit and creativity.

by Sarah Pachter

Masza Rosenroth survived Auschwitz and became a successful celebrity seamstress.

Eliezer Whartman has a few things he needs to get off his chest.

by Avi Abrams

What happened to the notorious war criminal?

by Kylie Ora Lobell

A new film details the incredible story of a winemaker who saved Jewish girls from the death grip of Auschwitz.

by Rabbi Menachem Levine

The only Jew in FDR’s cabinet, the influential politician was in a position to stand up for being a Jew and help save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The remarkable true story of Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The famed designer was a vicious anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator.

by Ilene S. Cohen, Ph. D.

Why have so many Jewish psychologists been pioneers in the field of psychology?

by Jeff Jacoby

The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle.

by Adam Ross

Karoly Karpati’s legacy of strength, Jewish pride and inspiration.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

A new book reveals the darker side of the operation that rescued 10,000 children from Nazi Germany.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

A new book uncovers the almost-lost story of hope during the darkest of times.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg took on the fraudulent title of “countess” to rescue thousands from the death grip of the S.S.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Hiding in an attic, Curt Bloch created anti-Nazi journals every week for nearly two years.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Watermelons have become an anti-Israel symbol. It’s time to reclaim this popular fruit.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

After fleeing the Nazis, many Hasidic Jews settled in Samarkand, alongside the centuries-old Bukharan Jewish community when the communists ruled the region.

by Yehudis Litvak

Aliyah and the rebuilding the Land of Israel.

by Erik Lewis

The Hamas massacre reminded me of Jean-Paul Sartre’s immoral defense of terrorism as a weapon for the oppressed.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

The prominent wildlife conservationist and friend of Theodore Roosevelt was a notorious racist who impacted Nazi ideology.

by DW Duke

A clear, brief history of the Mideast conflict that is required reading to better understand what is happening today and a path forward in seeking a resolution.

by Will Barclay

By the end of the 1970’s, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Islamic states and Muslim nations around the world.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Senior Nazi official Ernst Hansfstaengl attended his 25th Harvard reunion in 1934, despite his Nazi ties.

by Rabbi Berel Wein

Raw evil was unmasked and unashamed, a chilling harbinger for the destruction of European Jewry.

by Eileen SG

As a Jewish immigrant to the US from Iran, I first encountered the word “pogrom” in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Plus two delicious pumpkin recipes with a Jewish twist.

by Yehuda Avner

"There can be no deals with terrorism whatever the circumstances." In memory of Yehuda Avner.

by Rabbi Dr. Benji Levy

Even though Israel was barely able to support its own economy, he felt it was the right thing to do.

by Judy Gruen

The battle against the Nazis relied on machinery, manpower, money, and even a bit of magic.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

In the depths of hell, Livia Koralek encouraged her fellow concentration camp prisoners.