Our homes are treasure troves of Jewish objects–each with a story to tell. We asked Jewish Chicagoans to tell us what Judaica they cherish most–and the stories behind them. Here’s what they said… My ...
A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before Passover outside the doors of men afflicted with fungal infections of the ...
MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...
(JTA) — A trove of sacred Jewish objects from Greece that was stolen by the Nazis and displaced for decades in Poland is finally heading back home. Poland returned 91 religious and ceremonial ...
The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...
The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...
During World War II, the Nazis murdered more than 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands—some 75 percent of the Dutch Jewish population. Many of those who survived were left with nothing, as the Nazis had ...
In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from ...
Hebrew prayers scrawled on the back of Romanian wine labels are displayed as part of the “Living Memory” exhibit at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (Larry Luxner) JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish ...
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