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A new graphic memoir recalls the story of a rabbi who traveled to the Soviet Union in 1965 to investigate the country’s treatment of Jews, and ended up helping one family escape

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

A year after the death of the artist and World War II partisan Alexander Bogen, his granddaughter is trying to save his large estate

One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices

From the blog of Tomasz Cebulski at The Times of Israel

Increasingly, evicted tenants have nowhere to go and are being housed in B&Bs, hotels and caravans.

A trip to Brussels to research a book about his mother's life yielded unexpected and heart-rending lessons.

IN CONTRAST to all these negative sentiments about the Zionist movement, there were rabbis who advocated the return of world Jewry to the Land of Israel before Herzl came on the scene.

I am no longer the starry-eyed immigrant to the miraculous modern Jewish state; 14 years ago, my teenaged son was killed by Hamas terrorists

Abe Cahan was an idealistic young man from Vilna (Lithuania) who arrived in America like most immigrants – with big hopes and dreams.    He arrived on these shores in 1882 and, after apprenticing at several newspapers, founded The Jewish Daily Forward in 1897.  Given the influx of displaced Russians and Eastern Europeans, the paper rapidly developed a wide following.