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The Fiedler family poses in front of their home on Tongshan Road.
museums

The Hidden History of Shanghai's Jewish Quarter

As Hitler rose to power, the city welcomed refugees.
Courtney Lichterman June 13, 2018
Greek dedicatory inscription of Samuel, son of Saphara. Painted onto ceiling tile from the Dura‐Europos synagogue, which requests “may he be remembered [who] founded these things thus.”
graffiti

The Wit and Wisdom of Ancient Jewish Graffiti

Researchers in the field have uncovered related messages ranging from "Lasius is a pervert" to “Good luck in your resurrection.”
Eve Kahn May 24, 2018
Some unmarked graves.
George Town, Malaysia

Penang Jewish Cemetery

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.
Entrance to the Cave of the Coffins.
Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel

Beit She'arim Necropolis

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.
Plastic fedoras often make an appearance.
toys

Inflatable Saxophones, Novelty Fedoras, and the Allure of Plastic Party Favors

They're big business at bar and bat mitzvahs and other celebrations. But why do we want them?
Sonia Weiser April 11, 2018
The film has been painstakingly digitally restored over many thousands of hours.
nazis

The Rediscovery of a 1920s Silent Film Predicting the Rise of Nazism

"The City Without Jews" is returning to cinemas for the first time in decades.
Natasha Frost April 2, 2018
A 16th-century painting shows a family enjoying pancakes and waffles.
food

Remembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries Past

Green, herbal, and slightly toxic.
Natasha Frost March 30, 2018
A bagel served with lox and cream cheese at Kutsher's restaurant in New York, 1977.
judaism

The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines

Remembering Local 338 and the world's toughest bagel bakers.
Natasha Frost February 9, 2018
A larger Hebrew scroll found in the cache in the West Bank caves.
archaeology

One of the Last Two Dead Sea Scrolls Has Been Decoded

Israeli researchers found an ancient calendar by piecing together fragments of the text.
Natasha Frost January 23, 2018
Rabbi Mendel Jacobs has dubbed this "Kosher Tartan", and the pattern is registered with the Scottish Tartan Authority.
judaism

Scottish Jews Have Their Own Official Tartan

It's kosher!
Carly Silver November 8, 2017
A composite photograph showing the windows at the Euclid Avenue Temple, Cleveland, Ohio.
art

Louis Comfort Tiffany's Little-Known Forays Into Judaica

The stained-glass artist created mosaics, menorahs, and bronze synagogue doors.
Eve Kahn November 7, 2017
Memphis, Tennessee

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.
A aerial view of the Masada fortress.
Masada, Israel

Masada

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.
Temple Beth Shalom.
Cayman Islands

Temple Beth Shalom

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.
The Eldridge Street Synagogue and Museum.
New York, New York

Museum at Eldridge Street

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
Prague, Czechia

Olšany Cemetery

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
East Jerusalem, Israel

Western Wall Tunnel

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.