British author and academic Dr. Rachel Lichtenstein spent the past year working with seven different communities across Europe to bring old Jewish cemeteries alive through new and exciting initiatives, encouraging a phenomenal revival of Jewish history
Would you break all the traditions of your society, turn against the will of your family, and shatter all the boundaries that you have known to be true in order to follow your destiny? Chana Rochel Verbermacher did just that – breaking out of all the known gender stereotypes to make her own way in a world dominated by men, Chana decided to become the first, and only, Hasidic female Rebbe.
Baruch Agadati was almost certainly the most controversial Jewish dancer of his time, building up large followings both of people who loved him, and loved to hate him. He simultaneously fought against antisemitism, angered most of the Jewish community, challenged gender roles, and built long-lasting cultural traditions. Oh, and he was also the person who created Israeli Folk Dance.
Hostage-taking and forced migration were just two methods used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Poland a century ago
A booklet labeled “The Lives of Children”, preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine
For Ilya Galant, the myths of eternal hatred between Ukrainians and Jews were just that, myths
For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
The complicated and all-but-forgotten legacy of Saul Borovoi
US secretary of state’s immigrant ancestor was a trailblazing Yiddishist, as well as a carpenter and masseuse
