By:Richard McBee Wednesday, February 6, 2008 One Family – Photographs of Vardi Kahana Selected Images: Columbia/Barnard Hillel The Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life 606 West 115th Street, (B’way) Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 212-854-5111 January 22-February 29, 2008 Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue available at Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, #214; 212-627-2552 Kahana’s work […]

(IsraelNN.com) Berta Lovinger is no ordinary olah hadasha [new immigrant to Israel]. At the ripe old age of 95, she was the oldest Jew to come home to Israel on Thursday’s Nefesh B’Nefesh flight of new immigrants. The Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) organization eases the obstacles facing North American Jews wishing to make aliyah (move to […]

By:Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, May 30, 2007 (Note: All quotes are from Early American Jewish History, The Jews of Pennsylvania and the South, 1655-1790, by Jacob Rader Marcus, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1953, Chapter 8, pages 132-165.) The Legend One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785). “Salomon, […]

By:Gary Spruch Wednesday, December 19, 2007 More than 140,000 people in the past month have clicked their way to a dramatic YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo) about a historic Jewish religious service led by a Brooklyn-born U.S. Army chaplain. The video tells how, on October 29, 1944, as artillery shells exploded in the distance, Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz […]

By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok. Copyright (C) 1994-2007 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved. Let me begin by setting the record straight. Hanukah is a celebration of victory in war. The miracle of Hanukah was that the few defeated the many in battle. Many today erroneously believe that the primary miracle of Hanukah was […]

By:Edith Kurzweil Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Sixty-two years after the end of World War II, Jewish historians are still uncovering tales of hidden children and memorializing more of the “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem for having saved designated victims. (Parenthetically, we’re still learning about informers, anti-Semites and brutal local policemen who set out […]

By:Dr. Rafael Medoff Wednesday, October 24, 2007 For students of America’s response to the Holocaust, it is a familiar scenario: a small group of dedicated activists try to bring about the rescue of persecuted Jews, only to find themselves obstructed by cold-hearted bureaucrats, jealous organizational professionals, and an indifferent news media. But the story under […]

It was a bold Mossad operation that changed the balance of power in the region: in 1966, an Iraqi fighter pilot flew a Mig-21 jet to Israel, enabling Israel and the US to study and test the Russian-made aircraft for the first time. New film reveals almost all details related to affair Reuven Weiss Published: […]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Jewish Press Tuesday, September 25, 2007 There are times, admittedly few and far between, when the Monitor is rendered speechless. Such a time came seven years ago this week, with the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada. Though the violence initially was blamed on the September 28, 2000, visit to […]

Irena Sendler rescued 2,500 children from the Nazi death camps. Her story, writes Marti Attoun in Ladies’ Home Journal, was rescued by three Kansas teens. Irena Sendler keeps a photo of “her Kansas girls” on the bedside table in her nursing-home room in Warsaw, Poland. She rests easier now that her story is in good […]