Human Interest
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It was 1944. A teenage boy, Aryeh Leibish Gottesman, had been rounded up by the Nazis with his mother and seven siblings. They were forced into cattle cars full of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Their destination? Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Aryeh, who went by his middle name, Leibish, and the other prisoners suffered on the train. […]
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Could bestselling author Freida McFadden be Jewish? That’s the question fans are asking ever since the prolific thriller writer revealed last week her true identity. She really is Dr. Sara Cohen, a physician near Boston. It’s like a Freida McFadden mystery novel come to life. McFadden has appeared a few times in public at literary […]
In the mountain villages of northern Portugal, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, families for centuries had been keeping secrets they could not fully explain. They lit candles on Friday evenings without knowing why. They avoided certain foods. They murmured prayers in garbled fragments of a language their grandparents' grandparents had once spoken freely. They […]
With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. There are seven basic emotions that make up the spectrum of human experience. At the root of all forms of enslavement, is a distortion of these emotions. Each of […]
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An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
