First Person

Hillel Silverman, longtime rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, is dead at 99

A journalist recalls the career and brush with notoriety of Silverman, the founding rabbi of a Dallas congregation.

By Steve North April 12, 2023 11:00 am

Standing on Albania’s Jew Street, I learned firsthand the country’s lifesaving culture of hospitality

Albania is the only country in Europe whose Jewish population grew during the war. It’s thanks to a code of conduct called “besa,” Naomi Tomky writes.

March 8, 2023 2:01 pm

First Person

After I stopped an attack on the subway, the victim and I bonded over Katz’s pastrami sandwiches

A writer’s night included a visit to a museum exhibit on Jewish delis, and a lesson that “life is delicious and should be enjoyed in big portions.”

January 30, 2023 4:44 pm

First Person

Why this Holocaust survivor wears the same hand-knit sweater every Passover

By Tanya Singer March 29, 2022 1:25 pm

First Person

The Gaza fighting is over, but Jewish-Arab violence in Israel still has me afraid

By Uriel Heilman May 27, 2021 1:31 pm

First Person

A rabbi’s accuser wanted me to tell her story. Here’s why it took 20 years.

By Gary Rosenblatt May 26, 2021 6:00 am

First Person

I was excited for Israel to get back to normal. Then the rockets began to hit.

By Uriel Heilman May 12, 2021 5:51 pm

The son of JTA's Europe correspondent pictures here when he was nearing his 2nd birthday, examines a memorial cobblestone for murdered Dutch Jews in Heerlen, the Netherlands on July 29, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

First Person

Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 8, 2021 2:21 pm

First Person

On a Jewish tour of northern Ontario, small spaces convey decades of history

By Robert Walker February 25, 2021 4:27 pm

First Person

For Jews from the former Soviet Union, New Year’s Eve always involves a Christmas-style tree

By Ashley Zlatopolsky December 29, 2020 3:52 pm

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