Sunday Features

‘I just felt this urgency’: For some, Oct. 7 fueled a renewed dedication to becoming Jewish

Rabbi Adam Mintz told JTA that in the weeks immediately following Oct. 7, he and his colleagues “have found an explosion of people who are interested in beginning to explore conversion.”

The real story behind ‘One Life,’ the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis

The new feature film dramatizes the story of a British stockbroker who helped 669 children escape the Nazis in Prague.

Teen Fellowship

Jewish teens in South Africa, where crime and Israel criticism are sky-high, see little future at home

Antisemitism and a lack of opportunity are pushing young people to study abroad or move to Israel.

To welcome interfaith couples, this Conservative synagogue hired a cantor who’s allowed to wed them

A smiling elderly man overlooking Vermont foliage in the fall

A Greek Holocaust survivor in Vermont knows how to save humanity. He just needs us to listen.

A Tel Aviv exhibit recreates the Nova massacre site in exacting detail, with healing as an aim

Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’

What may be the Americas’ best New York-style Jewish deli is in Mexico City

Lives Lived: Notable New Yorkers who died in 2023

A Nazi commander looks at his family's garden in the shadow of Auschwitz in a scene from "The Zone of Interest"

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

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