At the age of 13, Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian-born Jew, was liberated by American forces from the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, Rubin emigrated

As reported by Oyhoo!, the organization behind The New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival, as featured here on Jewschool these last two weeks: Michael

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Aw man, this is just ugly: The Bush administration’s top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a

There are at least four different opinions on the subject. The Ramban says that when the Gemara learns that eating blood is permissible, it also

The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors is seeking Holocaust survivors affected by Katrina so that they can provide assistance to them. Please contact amgathtogether

Intermittent Jewschool contributor and beloved perennial pariah Douglas Rushkoff has been keeping himself rather busy as of late. Amongst juggling a nine month-old, a brand

äéúáåããåú (hitbodedut), literally “seclusion,” is the act of speaking directly to God. It is described by the Breslov Institute as such: [H]itbodedut is raw, unadulterated

Commenting on the uproar caused by their attempts to sideline the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of The Muslim Council of Britain,

The AP reports, Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades