Sunday Features

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

“We feel it’s the very moment for this film,” said director Julia Von Heinz.

A citizenship class for Jewish immigrants at Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS), Lower East Side, New York City, February 16, 1920. (Courtesy/YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look

A new YIVO exhibit, “Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau,” examines a lesser-known aspect of Jewish immigrant life in the U.S.

As Israeli tourism to Georgia has boomed, these Israelis have put down roots in Tbilisi

Israelis were the fourth-most frequent visitors to Georgia last year, after Russia, Turkey and neighboring Armenia.

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history

Why Israel was the first country to get its own version of ‘Who is Taylor Swift?’ bestselling kids book

As MLB veteran Kevin Pillar enjoys a late-career resurgence in LA, he’s come to appreciate his place as a Jewish baseball star

LA Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war

Netflix’s ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ aims to make the Holocaust hit home for a younger generation

A collage of high school yearbook images that Jews found objectionable

Most likely to antagonize Jewish students this spring: High school yearbooks

Jerry Izenberg, Manny Pacquiao and Fred Sternburg

Jewish publicist and noted ‘good guy’ Fred Sternburg joins the International Boxing Hall of Fame

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