Culture

Visitor to Auschwitz-Birkenau site caught trying to steal piece of iconic rail tracks

The American visitor, 37, was charged with attempted theft of an item of cultural importance and admitted his guilt.

Why Orthodox communities are at the center of a measles outbreak

A strain of opposition to vaccines has persisted in metro New York haredi communities claiming that vaccines are ineffective at best and harmful at worst.

Is the ‘Veep’ character Sherman Tanz an anti-Semitic caricature?

In the words of showrunner David Mandel, the character has at least a “little bit” of Sheldon Adelson in him.

Here’s how Panera’s former co-owner defends the bread-sliced bagel

Chicago wants Jussie Smollett to pay for city’s failed bid to have him convicted

Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld awarded top British honor

Holocaust survivor Nanette Koning talking to bnei anusim at Yeshiva Camp in Sao Paulo in 2018. (Courtesy of Yeshiva Camp)

In Brazil, a rabbi opens the world’s first summer camp for descendants of forcibly converted Jews

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg launch weed company in Canada

Cory Booker speaks Hebrew on CNN

Facebook and Instagram will ban white nationalist and white separatist posts

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