He remade his life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In a 2011 documentary, Sam Rafowitz: Remaking a Life, the eponymous subject comments: “About 15 and a ...
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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 ...
A 1939 phone book could be the key to unlocking millions in Polish Holocaust restitution payments
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived ...
Make-believe Jewish weddings
In Eastern Europe, nostalgia for the Jews includes fake Jewish weddings By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Nostalgia for Jews is ...
Exploring Polonia for a new generation
By ZACHARY KAGAN In January, Catholics across Europe take time to reflect on Christian-Jewish relations. The Italian Catholic church was ...
Only memories remain of Poland’s Jews
By CARLA WALDEMAR Poland was high on my bucket list. So it was time to check it out, thanks to ...
Celebrating the strength of a family
Descendants of the five Mandelbaum siblings who survived the Holocaust in Poland gathered on Jan. 17 to celebrate their ‘total ...
New Jewish museum in Poland ‘reveals hope’
The museum is part of a wider movement since the fall of communism to reconnect with the past By RUTH ...
Rabbi Marc Liebhaber dies at 97
A Shoah survivor, rabbi, teacher, businessman and philanthropist, he lived a long life full of both joy and tragedy By ...
