Yahrzeit

This month in Jewish history: History, memory, destiny

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
AS AN astronomer, Ralbag influenced Copernicus. Pictured: Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in his hometown of Torun, Poland.
PORTRAIT OF Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber, from The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1920.

This week in Jewish history: Yearning for Zion

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
‘WHAT WILL they remember about their mother?’ Illustrative.

‘Yizkor’ - short story

The word yizkor means 'He shall remember.'

|ByDVORA WAYSMAN
THE WRITER on his wedding day, with his father.

Lessons from Rabbi Adler: Be your father’s son - opinion

Even observant Jews are unfamiliar with the intricacies of Jewish laws and customs surrounding death and mourning.

|ByJONATHAN FELDSTEIN

‘What time is Shabbat over?’ - A new understanding - opinion

'The nerves of even the most adoring grandparents can get shot. I understand that now. I didn’t understand it then.'

AUGUST 10, 2025ByHERB KEINON
Not everything you love you want all at once, says the writer.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 19, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

This week in Jewish history: Yoni and Entebbe raid, Law of Return passed

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 5, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
KIKAR YONI, Yoni Square in Jerusalem, is named for the heroic Netanyahu brother who fell in the 1976 raid on Entebbe.

Looking back on 30 years: Remembering Alisa Flatow, beloved daughter - opinion

Because Alisa was in the Land of Israel, studying the religion of Israel, and among the people of Israel when the end came, she was in the right place. 

APRIL 20, 2025BySTEPHEN M. FLATOW
ALISA FLATOW washes chicken for Shabbat, in Israel, 1995.

The 45 years since Yigal Allon’s death - opinion

“Yigal left so much undone. But it is as if he made us, who worked closely with him, promise to go on struggling for the things he believed in," a eulogy wrote.

MARCH 3, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
YIGAL ALLON served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1977. His premature death at age 61 ‘left so much undone,’ laments the writer.

This week in Jewish history: Birthday of Frank Gehry, Yahrzeit of Avraham Ibn Ezra

A highly abridged version of Dust & Stars.

MARCH 1, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
MONUMENT TO Shalom Aleichem in Bohuslav, Ukraine.

Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto to his disciples: The grave of Rabbi David Levy zt”l works miracles

DECEMBER 2, 2024ByDAVID BERGER