5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (156+ words) Saturday marks 101 years since the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, the political manifesto that articulated his antisemitic ideology implemented a few years later by the Nazi Party, said the Jerusalem office of the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (825+ words) More than three decades after an extraordinary archaeological discovery near Qumran sparked worldwide attention and fierce debate, a new research project is seeking to determine whether a mysterious reddish-brown substance unearthed in a sealed cave could be remnants of Ketoret,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (279+ words) Israeli and Greek archaeologists have found that ancient stone tool technology did not spread across Europe as a fixed, unchanging method. Instead, it evolved through a combination of shared knowledge and local adaptation by early human groups. Researchers from the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (618+ words) For the first time in 2,000 years, Jewish authorities are carrying out conservation work at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where, according to the Bible, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah, founders of Judaism, are buried, making…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (381+ words) Just 11 minutes after the State of Israel was declared on May 14, 1948, U.S. President Harry Truman became the first foreign leader to recognize the Jewish state. Visitors to the National Library of Israel can now see the pen he used to sign…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (528+ words) The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday that it is joining an international, European Union-funded research project that will use artificial intelligence, chemical analysis and other advanced technologies to investigate one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls:…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (754+ words) In the middle of the 19th century, one of the most influential men on the southern Pacific island of Tahiti was a Jewish merchant named Alexander Salmon (originally “Solomon”). He was not a rabbi, communal leader or scholar. Nor did he…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (750+ words) The nation of France honored historian Marc Bloch on Tuesday by re-interring his remains in the Panthéon in Paris in a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron. A French Jewish academic, who helped found the Annales school of historiography,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (502+ words) A cutting-edge, mixed-reality project details the inspiring story of Benno Kern—from Anschluss to Auschwitz to liberation in Buchenwald. Immersive XR experience expands the reach of Holocaust education A cutting-edge, mixed-reality project details the inspiring story of Benno Kern—from…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (648+ words) Julie Menin, the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, is very aware of her family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Preserving testimonies of survivors is critical, as the population of those who experienced and witnessed the Holocaust ages,…...