Unopened letter sent to Anne Frank’s home fetches $11,000 at auction
The 1942 document was sold for nearly 20 times the minimum bid.
Life & Culture
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In this Argentine film, a Holocaust survivor leaves home to find the man who saved him in WWII
In "The Last Suit," an elderly tailor sets out to pay tribute to the boy who hid him in a basement 70 years earlier and nursed him to health.
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Why these Dutch Christians are celebrating Sukkot
Over the past decade, a growing number of Protestant congregations have been erecting a ceremonial hut outside their churches to celebrate the Jewish holiday.
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This year’s Oscar foreign film race is full of movies on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
Russia's "Sobibor," centers on Jewish inmates' escape from the camp and the Dutch “The Resistance Banker,” is about a a man who financed Nazi resistance.
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NJ store to close after a century of suiting up bar mitzvah boys — and the occasional mobster
Sam’s Fine Men’s Clothing began as a pushcart in Newark's 19th century Jewish neighborhood.
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How a Chinese fruit became a Sukkot symbol
This New York rabbi wrote the book on the etrog's history.
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An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album
Noam Vazana's earliest childhood memories are of her grandmother singing in what is now a dying Jewish-Sephardic language.
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A new Torah scroll symbolizes a Liberal Jewish revival in the Czech Republic
A scroll is read for the first time in over 50 years in the country of its origin.
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Yankees and Red Sox meet in rare midweek day game due to Yom Kippur
The game was scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday in order to avoid conflicting with Judaism’s holiest day.
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‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ wins 8 Emmy Awards
The show also included Roseanne jokes, and a sweet moment for Henry Winkler.
