“A Particular Responsibility: The Making of the U.S. Army Talmud” opened April 8, 2002, in the American Jewish Historical Society Gallery at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 Street, New York City. With historical documents, photographs and artifacts, the exhibit tells the story of the involvement of the United States Army in the […]

The violent breakup of Yugoslavia which began in 1991 and the bloody civil war that accompanied it had far-reaching and traumatic effects on the 5,000 to 6,000 Jews who lived in the country. Yugoslavia was a loose federation of six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro. By the end of 1992, Slovenia and […]

This day, regarded by some as even more of a miracle than Yom HaAtzmaut, represented the re-unification of the ancient capital city of Israel, Yerushalayim. Some who are not ready to say Hallel on Independence Day will, nevertheless, say it on the Day of the Re-Unification of Jerusalem. In the midst of the Six-Day War […]

TEL AVIV, May 7 (JTA) — “When I was a boy, I heard the story of how my father came from Poland to Israel on a bicycle,” says Yoram Hadar, who lives in Ness Ziona, “but I didn’t know a lot of the story because I was only 10 when my father died.” Last week, […]

There it stands, a dark massive granite shaft on a grassy knoll behind the Yad Vashem museum building, its top culminating in four faceless heads searching the Jerusalem horizon. The work of artist Joseph Salamon from Denmark, himself a survivor of the Holocaust, the sculpture is painfully anaonymous. The black polished pedestal lists their names […]

The Holocaust was arguably among the most fearsome tragedies that have befallen the Jewish People in its long history, in which six million Jews, fully one third of European Jewry, including one and a half million children, were murdered. And the murderers were not a People who would normally be called “barbaric.” On the contrary, […]

ROME, April 22 (JTA) On April 19, 1943, heavily armed Nazi troopspenetrated into the Warsaw Ghetto with a grim goal: the liquidation ofthe ghetto and the deportation of the last remnants of Warsaw’s Jews some 40,000 men, women and children. The German forces were met by something unexpected: a fierce attack bysome 750 young Jews […]

A great many Jew knows the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi’s by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved. Not a single Bulgarian Jew was deported to the death camps, due […]

Reconsidering the 49 Deaths That Galvanized a Generation and Changed Jewish History By J.J. GOLDBERG One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish history. Provoked by a medieval […]

BELGRADE, March 27 (JTA) — Wandering round the vast, neglected site straddling Belgrade’s Sava river, Aleksandar Mosic admits his project is ambitious. Mosic, a former board member of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, wants to recreate the Belgrade Fair exhibition ground and thus build a proper memorial to the victims of what he […]