Famous jews in history

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025

Despite its grief, the Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to film, architecture, politics, and Jewish scholarship.

18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
Morton Sher's fighter plane was shot down in 1943.

82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest

A fan takes a photo of a Barbie doll at the world premiere of the film "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 9, 2023

Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained

The Western Wall

Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel: A new look at corona conspiracies


The History of Romanian Jewry: An Understudied Topic

The Jerusalem Post

Grumpy Old Man: The Saunder B. Rifkin commemorative column

Authentic Jewish leadership comes from dedication, humility and a willingness to dirty your hands; Not just from visibility or money.

The writer's father (right) stands close – but not quite next to – then-IAF commander Benny Peled (left) in West Hartford, Connecticut, on April 15, 1973

Books — 'Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn'

Scholar Daniel Gordis brings Israel’s history to life and makes it accessible for a new generation.

Daniel Gordis

Inside Jerusalem

Batim Mibifnim, the Jerusalem edition of an annual open-house event, draws our attention to a range of impressive, grandiose, historic or simply beautiful edifices in the city.

Children at play run toward a pillbox several decades ago

The Tisch: Happy birthday!

The truth is that the question of birthdays in Jewish tradition is an age-old discussion.

Meir Greenstein with his birthday cake.

Esther Herlitz, who broke the glass ceiling many times over, dies at 94

Israel’s first female ambassador also served as MK, adviser to Golda Meir, fighter in the Hagana and chairwoman of the International Harp Contest.

Esther Herlitz

The Postman knocks twice: Shoeshine Purim to battling anti-Semites

The right of Jews to fight as a group was unusual, unprecedented. Because of the intervention of Esther and of Mordecai, the king had sanctioned the preemptive Jewish strike against the anti-Semites.

Store sells costumes for Purim

Anti-Semitism is not on the rise, it has always been here

The Jerusalem Post

Today in History: The first American-Jewish patriot

Francis Salvador and the Jews of South Carolina championed independence.

America's founding fathers sign the Declaration of Independence

Maccabees: The challenge to traditional authority

There are still Jews today who see Davidic messianic monarchy as an ideal, rather than democracy.

THE STARK desert of the Judean desert east of Jerusalem. From these mountains and other areas of the hill country the Maccabean kings sallied forth against their enemies.