When Luigi Maria Calio, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University of Catania to excavate an area of Ostia Antica, the ancient commercial port of call outside Rome, he wasn’t sure what he might find, the New York Times said. The dig site had not been explored in modern times, in spite of its central location next to a square that was once the city’s headquarters for shippers and traders and is [...]

At the Academy Awards telecast, the Israeli-Palestinian documentary, “No Other Land,” won an Oscar for Best Documentary, but has no U.S. distribution.   Mikey Madison, who is Jewish, won best actress for “Anora,” which is set in Brighton Beach.   Linda McMahon, the billionaire wrestling executive was confirmed as Education Secretary. She supports Trump’s effort to dismantle parts of the agency she now runs, even as it serves as the main federal body investigating allegations [...]

A light-filled atrium is featured in the new Tree of Life museum, education center and synagogue building, to be erected in Pittsburgh at the site of the Oct. 27, 2018 shooting that killed 11 worshippers, one of the “deadliest antisemitic attacks in American history,” said Michael Bernstein, the synagogue’s chairman of the board of directors. An exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh introduces information about the shooting, items gifted to Pittsburgh’s Jewish community in its [...]

The white cars moved slowly, their cargo of coffins unbearably heavy, their silence loud. Inside, the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two small sons, Ariel and Kfir; also Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist — all hostages stolen from their homes on Oct. 7, returned in death. The convoy drove past Nir Oz, the kibbutz from which they had been taken. Crowds lined the road as the cars passed — somber, standing with Israeli flags [...]

Leo Geyer, a British musician and Oxford University doctoral candidate, has spent eight years studying the music written and played at Auschwitz. The orchestras, made up of inmates, were ordered to play marching tunes at camp events. Geyer’s discoveries comprise 210 fragments, some complete scores. Geyer came upon the forgotten manuscripts by chance in 2015 when he first visited Auschwitz while working on a commemorative piece of music to honor the late Sir Martin Gilbert, [...]

A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in New York City on Jan. 27 as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time the annex  has been completely recreated outside of Amsterdam, where the space is a central part of the Anne Frank House museum.          While the original annex has been intentionally left [...]

  Nearly 200 Columbia University faculty members sent a letter to the school’s interim president, urging stronger safety measures for Jewish students. (Columbia Spectator) Boston University rejected a proposal from Students for Justice in Palestine to divest from Israel. “The endowment is no longer the vehicle for political debate,” the school’s president said. (Algemeiner) A Massachusetts middle school student performed a Nazi salute in class, prompting the principal to assure parents that “appropriate action would [...]

When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture, and way of life were wiped out. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his life’s mission to keep their memory alive. In scores of stories, poems and novels, Grade faithfully recreated the world he lost in pre-war Europe, vividly reimagining his formative years in Vilna and the yeshivas he attended. After his death, his wife Ina Hecker kept his [...]

This poignant photo of Jewish soldiers preparing to observe the holiday of Hanukkah recalls the events that took place in ancient times, when Judah Maccabee and his soldiers conquered the Greek-Syrian oppressors, who had defiled the Temple. Here Israeli soldiers light candles for Hanukkah before being deployed to the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov