Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg.
They were "shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows," as she later said in an oral history interview.
Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.
The Boulder Jewish Film Festival provides audiences with an opportunity to learn more about the rich culture and history of ...
At the time, the neighborhood was a mix of religious, ultra-religious and non-observant Jews, which charmed us. We followed ...
A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred ...
Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...
Members of the New Life Holocaust Survivor group in San Diego gathered with Jonny Daniel, a London-born Israeli activist, to ...
Next week, the world will commemorate the 86th anniversary of the November Pogrom, commonly known as “Kristallnacht.” In ...
"This was an incredible glimpse of the power of the Jewish people to come together despite everything to celebrate life, and to celebrate each other." ...
How were Jews supposed to celebrate Simhat Torah (simcha means joyous) on the anniversary of the massacre? At our synagogue, ordinarily we would go outside and take turns dancing with the Torah ...