Facing Nazi Atrocities, Teachers Trace Path From Warsaw To Treblinka
TREBLINKA, Poland — In 1998, after visiting the Treblinka death camp site on a Holocaust education trip to Poland for teachers, Aimee Ross vowed she would never come again. “I […]
July 18, 2024
TREBLINKA, Poland — In 1998, after visiting the Treblinka death camp site on a Holocaust education trip to Poland for teachers, Aimee Ross vowed she would never come again. “I […]
August 15, 2022
This was not my first Jewish holiday away from home. Studying abroad in London, my friends tossed crumpets in the Thames for Tashlich. Living in rural Thailand, my boyfriend and […]
August 15, 2022
The Jews stranded in Ethiopia have been promised authorization to make Aliyah for decades.
August 15, 2022
According to a new survey, American Jews are far more likely to see antisemitism as a problem in the United States than non-Jews and are nearly twice as likely to […]
August 15, 2022
I‘ve given a few different irreverent answers when people have asked why I’m undertaking this physically demanding (and not cheap) journey to climb Kilimanjaro. If you must know, there’s some […]
August 15, 2022
This story first appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News/cjn.org. Reprinted with permission As late as 9:38 p.m. Nov. 16, customers of Amazon could buy a “generic Jewish wine tumbler” bearing […]
August 11, 2022
I prefer not to seem like a dumb American tourist, but I much more prefer not to be called a “Russian.” It took me a day to get a hold […]
April 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — Being in the crowded, confined space of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was uncomfortable for Kevin Smokyday. It wasn’t because of the photos and videos that he saw […]
April 1, 2022
Eleven people were murdered in Israel by terrorists marking it as the deadliest time period within Israel since 2006.
March 30, 2022
In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Israeli friend contacted Jenna Mitelman and asked her to help two Ukrainian refugees. A single mother and her nine-year-old boy […]