Days before Election Day, targeted ads warn Jewish voters about antisemitism, threats to Israel and attacks on democratic norms under which Jews have historically thrived. The phrase — which if not a ...

The 2023 Gala event commemorates the 15th anniversary of Defiance, the 2008 film that introduced the partisan story of resistance to global audiences, and honors the Bielski brothers. Highlights of ...

Belarus provided invaluable assistance to the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War, and it was here that the ...

(JNS) Armed with only his camera, the Jewish partisan came up on the Ukrainian policeman guarding the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland and put the camera to his waist. “If you shout, you die,” he told ...

Allen Small, 83, and Leon Bakst, 86, hugged each other so tight, Small said, “I couldn’t let go.” Their embrace at a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was 65 years in the making. Small and ...

At one point in “Four Winters,” Julia Mintz’s haunting film about the thousands of Jewish partisans who fought back against Nazi occupation during World War II, Luba Abramowitz muses about the true ...

Berenbaum put the role of the Jewish partisans in perspective by noting that most European resistance movements went into full action only after Germany’s defeat became a certainty. Even ghetto ...

ST. PAUL -- It has been more than 65 years, but Jack Sutin still lives with the horrors of what happened when the Germans invaded. He lived in the part of Poland now called Belarus. It was early 1942, ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture. Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of ...

The phrase — which if not a translation of a Yiddish expression might as well be — was the message of an email sent Monday to activists by Jewish Women for Kamala, an affinity group organized by the ...