Judaism

With visitors and donations down, San Francisco’s Jewish museum to shutter at least temporarily

The museum is closing its galleries to visitors for at least a year as they focus on revamping its financial strategy and programming.

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
15/11/2024
SHYFRIN SAYS there is a Big Bang theory, but nobody can explain why it took place.

Kabbalah of information and the mystery of consciousness

Exploring the consciousness debate, Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Eduard Shyfrin discuss AI’s limits, the soul's role in thought, and the complexities of mind-body interaction.

Dan Bilzerian 'would bet entire net worth that less than 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust'

Bilzerian has also described Hamas as a "resistance organization" and had called its late leader Yahya Sinwar "a hero" after his death on the Piers Morgan Uncensored show.

40 years later, a 'baal teshuva' looks back

As the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote, “Hashem is calling on each of us, saying there is a reason why we are here because He has something for us to do, something that only we can do. 

How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

Netsky said he thinks the Yiddish theater music in the archive files is particularly valuable because it was maligned by the classical composers as shund (trash) and neglected.

By JON KALISH/JTA
12/11/2024

'Never again is us': Europe failed in its promise to the Jews after WWII

The Jerusalem Post spoke to Fiamma Nirenstein, the Foreign Ministry's special advisor on combating antisemitism.

A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht

Now, 86 years later, the relic is returning home.

By JACOB GURVIS/JTA
11/11/2024

A once-in-a-lifetime event: Standing together for unity, strength, and resilience

Our goal is to celebrate the return to Jewish communal participation that we have witnessed over the last year and to explore new ways to bolster Jewish pride and identity.

By SHIRA HUTT
08/11/2024

Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker laying Kristallnacht wreath

Protestors held a banner that read, "The word of those who honor Nazis is worthless."

By REUTERS
08/11/2024
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