Art from the nadir of humanity
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Holocaust art is not a very popular genre. Do you really want a graphic drawing of a ...
Tag: Europe
In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Earlier this year, Dani Rotstein was earning a living doing something he’s passionate about: ...
Notre-Dame will be rebuilt — but most European Jewish sites never will be
By RUTH ELLEN GRUBER BUDAPEST (JTA) – Architecture and built heritage can be powerful symbols. Notre-Dame de Paris is one of ...
There’s a world of love and music
As part of a U.S. tour promoting his new album, Passion World, jazz singer Kurt Elling returns to the Dakota ...
Jeffrey Goldberg to speak at JCRC event
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, will present “Time to Go? The Rise of Global Anti-Semitism” at ...
Shtetls in a new light
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Princeton, 431 pages, $29.95 ...
Living through the great Jewish upheavals
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, by David Laskin, Viking, 383 pages, $32 Reviewed by ...
FDR’s evolution on Jewish issues
FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, Belknap Press (Harvard), 433 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Reliving a Holocaust experience
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss, W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95 ...
German lawmakers propose ban on infant circumcision
BERLIN (JTA) — Some 50 lawmakers in Germany have signed on to a proposal that would bar ritual circumcision for ...
