The remnants of a longtime Kingston bakery are the heart of a museum exploring immigrant contributions and culture in the ...

Poland has agreed to return to Greece 76 Greek Jewish artifacts to be displayed in the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens.

Alfred Wolmark became a pioneering painter after fleeing persecution in Europe in the 1880s. His family hope offering his ...

The intense scrubbing and cleaning of homes to prepare for Passover was a little different in the shtetl. Mayer Kirshenblatt ...

In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...

Monty died in 2009, and his wife Reta passed in 2014. Both are interred at Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughn, York Regional ...

But fewer than 1% of adults who were raised as Israeli Jews no longer identify as such, per a new Pew Research Center report on “religious switching.” Pew drew on data from 36 countries ...

The last time I saw Krakow was the summer of 1990. Communist power had ended in Poland, but old ways continued. The police still barked orders. The buildings moldered. The air still choked with ...

They lack understanding of the Jewish experience in Ottoman Southern Syria or of the immigration there beginning in the 1880’s. They don’t know the demographic changes that followed They often ...

During World War Two Poland was the only German-occupied country in Europe where aiding Jews was punishable by death. (PAP) ...

Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other ... and told the story of a trio of Polish, German and Jewish entrepreneurs. Hailed by Martin Scorsese as a ...