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A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
A fountain for ritual hand-washing, part of a Holocaust memorial at Santa Rosa Memorial Park cemetery, was vandalized for the second time in two years. (Photo/Dennis Judd)
Posted inBay Area

Holocaust memorial fountain toppled again in Santa Rosa

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 10, 2022
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
Posted inNews

Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Reese Lichtenstein and her grandmother, taken shortly before Irene Wolff’s death in January 2020. Reese has her grandmother’s image tattooed on her forearm. (Photo/Petal and Stone-Nan Patriquin); Part of the porcelain set kept by the Moritz family in Germany.
Posted inNews

From Germany to America: A family’s legacy, preserved in porcelain

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2021February 1, 2022
Scribe Kevin Hale restores Torahs with the Memorial Scrolls Trust. (Photo/Commandment 613)
Posted inNews

This 271-year-old Torah survived the Holocaust. Now it’s headed for a new home in Petaluma.

by Eliyahu Kamisher November 29, 2021
Former basketball player Dan Grunfeld's new book tells the story of his family, including his Holocaust survivor grandmother, Lily Grunfeld.
Posted inBooks

Stanford alum Dan Grunfeld shares family’s story, from Holocaust to basketball fame

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 23, 2021November 24, 2021
A man takes a picture at the Shoah Name Wall Memorial in Vienna, Austria on Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Hherbert Neubauer-APA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 9, 2021November 9, 2021
Teacher Stacy Pearce released a TikTok video protesting Covid mandates. (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inNorthern California

NorCal teacher on leave after Holocaust vaccine comparison

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 25, 2021
Jake Berman, a Jewish former student, speaks at a school board meeting in Southlake, Texas on Oct. 18, 2021. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

Jews in Texas raise concerns after official tells teachers law requires ‘opposing’ views on Holocaust

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 20, 2021October 20, 2021
The Texas State Capitol rotunda. Teachers in a Texas school district wondered whether "Number the Stars," a Holocaust novel, would require an "opposing" perspective under the terms of a new education law there. (Photo/JTA-Tamir Kalifa-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Texas official to teachers: State law requires teaching ‘opposing’ views on the Holocaust

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 15, 2021October 18, 2021

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