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Independent journalism has come increasingly under attack in Belarus, as the country has become a regional hotspot of media repression. Lately, as many as six media outlets have closed shop to ensur

From the blog of Chaim Ingram at The Times of Israel

Independent journalism has come increasingly under attack in Belarus, as the country has become a regional hotspot of media repression. Lately, as many as six media outlets have closed shop to ensur

A few years ago, a survey conducted by Claims Conference, an organization that oversees restitution for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs, revealed some disturbing news. Many Americans, especially younger ones, lacked a basic...

The story of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob

For decades, Haredim in the Diaspora rejected the notion of immigrating to Israel. No more. Now, ultra-Orthodox American Jews see themselves as ‘the next great frontier in aliyah’ and are moving to Israel in increasing numbers

From Menorah lightings to food and music, here’s how to celebrate the Festival of Lights this year. See Boston.com.

After their flight from Egypt, the children of Israel are doomed to spend 40 years in the desert: it takes that long for the whining and backsliding rabble to begin its transformation into a liberated people. The Bible seems to mock their trek from one watering hole to another as

A short account of anarchist connections to Hanbury Street in the East End of London.

The exhibit is based on an autobiography that Beba Epstein, a secular middle-class teenager, wrote in Yiddish