Moving Jews beyond Hitler’s reach
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Best known among Shoah rescuers is Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swede who saved thousands of Hungarian ...
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Jewish Cubans survive the island’s economic collapse
By MICHAEL APPLEMAN During my December humanitarian mission to Havana, Cuba, after visa and immigration impediments at José Martí International ...
Editorial: In solidarity with Ukraine
Like many American Jews, I’m here because Cossack militia men wanted to kill my grandparents. They fled to the United ...
1,000 Jewish groups received at least $500 million in government loans. Some laid off staff anyway.
By BEN SALES (JTA) — More than 1,000 Jewish organizations received federal coronavirus relief loans totaling approximately $540 million to ...
In Ukraine, aid for needy Jews comes with a catch
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ ODESSA, Ukraine (JTA) — Alina Feoktistova always knew she was Jewish, but the first time she sought ...
Hungary, the Jews and the ‘Viktator’
After Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party won Hungary’s 2014 parliamentary elections, they erected a “Memorial to the Victims of ...
In Budapest, a resurgence of Jewish life
The sanctuary of the Dohány Street Synagogue, which was built in the mid-19th century, was partly designed by Hungarian architect ...
Coping with war in Ukraine
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Although most Americans are unaware of the fact, there is a war raging in Ukraine. In early ...
When there is no miracle
Eli Morgenstern, of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, visited Minneapolis recently to speak about his program that helps Israel’s ...
From Minneapolis to Minsk
Natalie Shnaiderman, of the Jewish Agency for Israel, speaks about the organization’s work in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union ...
