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In this January 22, 1958 correspondence to Dr. Horst Salomon, director of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic, Otto Nosson Klemperer writes: I feel compelled to tell you personally how deeply I regret that I ...

Walter Disney (1901-66), a worldwide cultural icon, was an animator, film producer, and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the American animation industry. His films, which are beloved worldwide, ...

American Jewry in the early days of the United States was a small community, numbering only a few synagogues. All of them followed the Spanish and Portuguese minhag and used Sephardic prayerbooks. The ...

Maintaining faith through almost two millennia of persecution in exile was a monumental challenge. Yet, with unwavering courage and resilience, our ancestors found strength in Torah and mitzvot and ...

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1895-1948), was a Swedish nobleman (the grandson of King Gustav II) and diplomat who is credited with using his position as head of the Swedish Red Cross to ...

All 14 Jews the Iranian regime arrested have been released, Iranian opposition activists and journalists told JNS, after news reports last week that the Islamic Republic arrested some 600 people ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...