By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Reading two novels that focus on similar time periods and characters can make for interesting reading. Reading two novels that were written and published almost 100 years apart makes for fascinating reading. If I hadn’t known that “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezi…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Fiction making history come alive: that describes two recent novels about World War II. Pam Jenoff and J. C. Maetis (better known as thriller writer John Matthews) take lesser known events from the war and create page-turning works about those who resisted or hid f…
By Bill Simons
The 35 years from the end of World War I to the end of the Korean War marked the heyday of the Jewish deli. New York City, then home to more than half of American’s Jews, was the deli capital, although areas of Jewish settlement across the U.S. had their own establishments.…
The soccer exhibition mentioned in “Soccer memories of Zurich” by Arieh Ullmann, which appeared on page 1 in the June 2 issue of The Reporter, was housed in the museum of FC Zurich, a professional soccer club. FC Zurich and FC Hakoah have maintained a friendship that is decades-old, whi…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
The Center for Jewish History will hold the virtual lecture “Family History Tod…
