JHE wishes all of our readers a very happy Hanukkah and holiday season! Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — lasts this year from Dec. 16 to Dec. 24. During the festival Jews light a special nine-branched Hanukkah Menorah, … continue reading →
The town of Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw has — for the moment — suspended a plan that would build a residential complex with underground parking on the site of the Jewish cemetery pending investigations to determine the cemetery’s borders. JTA … continue reading →
We have posted in the past about the hundreds and hundreds of Jewish gravestones and fragments that have been discovered in recent years used as building material in Brest, Belarus. The situation has also gained prominence in the media. The Jewish … continue reading →
Marla Raucher Osborn, of the Rohatyn Jewish heritage project, reports on the recovery of dozens of fragments of Jewish gravestones that were used by the Nazis to pave the parking area of the Gestapo headquarters in Rohatyn, Ukraine. … continue reading →
We have added some new images to our photo gallery of monuments honoring Jewish soldiers who fell in World War I — here are a few of them. Click here to see the full photo gallery In … continue reading →
