Twenty years in the making, Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum is in a soft-opening period, with a section of the 81,000-square-metre site open for limited guided tours. (photo from Grand Egyptian Museum) In biblical times, the Patriarch Jacob led his family…
The Foundation for Jewish Camp serves more than 155 Jewish summer camps, close to 80,000 campers and 11,000 counselors across North America every summer. Among its initiatives is the One Happy Camper program, which is run in partnership with Jewish…
More than 20 girls were rescued from Nazi persecution and brought to Tynemouth (photo from Summerfield family via BBC) On Jan. 26, 2023, a blue plaque at a house in Tynemouth, a coastal town in northeast England near Newcastle, was…
With the economy in crisis in Gondar, aid groups are moving quickly to bolster food supplies to cover 1,500 Jewish households. (photo from SSEJ) The ethnic violence that engulfed Ethiopia’s Tigray region in recent years is now gaining a foothold…
Dr. Kamil Kijek of the University of Wrocław, in Poland. (photo from University of British Columbia) For Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the question of where to begin life anew after the cataclysm was not as clear as it…
The signage at the site of 1,700-year-old synagogue ruins in Albania was recently replace after a Canadian tourist informed the municipal government of the old signs’ illegibility. (photo from Dave Gordon) During a trip to Albania in September 2022, Toronto-based Jewish journalist…
The harrowing history of Ukraine’s past was recounted recently in the annual lecture honouring Rudolf Vrba, the late Vancouver scientist whose 1944 escape from Auschwitz brought the most concrete proof of the Nazi “Final Solution” to the world. Dr. Nataliia…
Hüttenbach in Medan in 1880s. (photo from KITLV Album Or. 27.377) Jewish communities in Indonesia have always been tiny, though their history is long. Jewish merchants are recorded in Sumatra as early as the 10th century, and diasporic and Israeli…
The Diamond Foundation is leading the way in contributing to JWest, with an historic $25 million gift – and community donors have matched this gift with another $25 million. The Diamond Foundation’s matching gift is the first philanthropic contribution to…
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (EWF) in New York is launching a new impact-driven philanthropic strategy to advance human rights around the world. The foundation, led by Elisha and Marion Wiesel, will adopt a hybrid approach that will not…
