YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.
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that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents ...
The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...
I have more in common with American Jews (and even with Israeli Jews) than I do with Eastern European Jews of the past or even of the present. My theology is grounded in the writings of American ...
When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade ...