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This Holocaust Jacket Sold for $2 at a Yard Sale

Two dollars won’t even get you a subway ride in NYC today. But for the family of Benzion Peresecki, it helped piece together an incredible story of survival from the Dachau concentration camp. Last year, a woman named Jillian Eisman was at a tag sale on Long Island when she saw a Holocaust prisoner’s jacket […]

New York’s Yom Kippur Blood Libel of 1928

On September 22, 1928, two days before Yom Kippur, four-year-old Barbara Griffiths stepped outside her home in Massena, New York and didn’t return. A search party was formed—which included several Ku Klux Klan members—and rumors began spreading that the town’s Jews kidnapped and ritually murdered her. The blood libel accusation—that Jews bake the blood […]

Why 100 NY Jews Brought Goats to This Moroccan Village

They were quite a sight: 100 Jewish men from Monsey, New York, respectfully clad in traditional Arab clothing, arriving, after 25 miles of traversing tough climes, at a small Berber village 400 miles south of Rabat, Morocco. Last month, Rabbi Aaron Lankry of Monsey led this group on a pilgrimage of sorts, touring sacred […]