World
Despite Covid, European synagogues will open for 'Days of Jewish Culture'
Every September since 2000, synagogues and other Jewish heritage sites in hundreds of cities across Europe — a continent where Jewish institutions…
World
Thousands of Jews expected to apply for Austrian citizenship
Caroline Wellbery’s father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when…
World
Welcome to Pink Peacock, Glasgow's queer Yiddish anarchist cafe
Govanhill, on the Southside ward of Glasgow, is perhaps the closest Scotland has to the interwar world of Yiddish-speaking Europe. With its rows of…
History
Frankfurt Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city
Although she was born here in Frankfurt, Anne Frank is mainly associated with Amsterdam, where she hid during the Holocaust and wrote her famous diaries.…
Bay Area
One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries
Bill Brostoff spent his working life navigating bureaucracy as a wetlands ecologist in the Army Corps of Engineers. Now the 70-year-old Berkeley resident…
World
Dutch courts can lock up Jewish men who refuse a religious divorce
Sara’s marriage was dead, but she couldn’t end it herself. As an Orthodox woman, Sara — not her real name, for privacy concerns — needed a get, or…
The Tell
The centrality (or not) of Israel for progressives
Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian-American congresswoman from Michigan, calls Bernie Sanders “Amo Bernie,” using the Arabic term of endearment for “uncle.” I…
World
Need an adult circumcision in Russia? There’s only one man for the job.
The religious Jewish world has created some unusual jobs, from shofar makers to etrog pickers to mashgichim – kosher certifiers whose job is literally to…
Tech
Survivors launch campaign to fight Holocaust denial on Facebook
Joining a growing chorus of critical voices, Holocaust survivors have launched an international online campaign criticizing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…