JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber is featured in an interview about Jewish heritage sites around the world, published in the Travel section of USAToday newspaper. The interviewer asked her to highlight some of her favorite sites to visit, in North … continue reading →
Coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek at our next “Have Your Say” op-ed, which will be a detailed personal essay by Dr. Michael Lozman, who has worked to protect and preserve more than a dozen abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Belarus and Lithuania. In … continue reading →
A new documentary film, Restoring Tomorrow, chronicles the enormous and complex process of renovating and restoring the magnificent Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles — and also the impact that following this process had on the filmmaker, Aaron Wolf, and his own Jewish identity. … continue reading →
The opening isn’t until February, but we want to note already what looks like an extraordinary upcoming exhibition at the POLIN museum in Warsaw that enlarges on a theme we have dealt with several times here on JHE — how artists … continue reading →
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! Thanksgiving is often called “turkey-day” because of the tradition of eating roast turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner. The bird that we call “turkey” was native to the Americas, and was brought … continue reading →
