Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem
A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through forced labor, ghettos, brazen escapes, and months in hiding.
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From Harbin to Hollywood: The tale of two talented Jewish sisters in China's 'Ice City'
New biography alleges Prince Philip secretly battled pancreatic cancer for eight years
'The Road to October 7': The long centuries of hatred that led to Hamas’s attack - review
'The Jewish South': Comfort and discomfort of southern Jewry - review
Most pioneering is her description of the Jews’ participation in the Confederate government and army, pinpointing by name the Jewish “rebels” serving in the army.
This month in Jewish history: Rabin assassination, Tree of Life shooting
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
Empress Eugénie's crown found damaged after Louvre Museum robbery
Empress Eugénie’s diamond- and emerald-studded crown, stolen during a daring Louvre heist that stunned France, was found damaged near the museum. Officials vow to restore it and tighten security.
On This Day: IDF soldier fatally shoots Hamas arch-terrorist, Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar
Sources close to the matter told The Jerusalem Post at the time that the operation was not intended to kill Sinwar, implying that soldiers found him through coincidence.
Hidden basement cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of lost yeshiva of the sages of Lublin books in Warsaw
The researchers removed about 40 to 50 sacks—roughly 1.5 tons—from a locked basement near the Nożyk Synagogue.
Photos from 1938 reveal strong clue to Amelia Earhart plane on Nikumaroro island
A fifteen member team from Purdue University and the Archeological Legacy Institute departs november 4 to probe the Taria object believed to be Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E.
Yom Kippur War: How the Book of Isaiah spurred world Jewry to back Israel, refusniks in 1973
The haftarah for Yom Kippur begins with these action-filled words of Isaiah. We must act – we must cut the road through – it is up to us to clear the way for ami – My people – God’s people.
Góra Kalwaria: The legacy of Poland’s ‘New Jerusalem’ and Gur hassidim
In the footsteps of the Gerrer hassidim and their illustrious rebbes: A look at Góra Kalwaria in Poland.
WWII Jewish American spies’ gear found in Tyrolean glacier after missions in Nazi Europe
Historian Edith Hessenberger: "by now we are 100 percent sure that the objects belonged to the three men of Operation Greenup".
Holocaust Survivors Reflects on Yom Kippur in Auschwitz, 1944
“We knew it was Yom Kippur because Mengele carried out another one of his selections — always deliberately on the holidays."
