1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (887+ words) Millions visit Sicily every year. Few know it was once home to one of the world's largest Jewish community whose fingerprints are still everywhere....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (16+ words) Savor the classic taste of Italy with this rustic, bubbly mozzarella and fresh basil Margherita pizza....

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (644+ words) His rifle was his paintbrush, and he became one of the most feared weapons in the Allied arsenal. History has fought fascism with armies, speeches, and uprisings. Arthur Szyk fought it with a paintbrush and a fearless imagination. Szyk became…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1157+ words) Rabbi in the Hot Seat Ariella Zeitlin was a violin prodigy on track for Juilliard, and secretly buying cocaine to practice longer. She's ready to tell her story. Ariella Zeitlin was heading to Juilliard and spiraling toward death at the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (299+ words) Are European Jews Really Jewish? Debunking The Khazar Theory'Aish. com Are European Jews Really Jewish? Debunking The Khazar Theory Rabbi in the Hot Seat Tucker Carlson recently claimed that Ashkenazi (European) Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (833+ words) Alfred Nakache won 13 national titles and swam for France in two Olympics. His reward: deportation to Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were murdered. As Academy Awards judges evaluate this year's contenders, the short film Papillon (Butterfly), that tells the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (493+ words) A two-tier system where one tier accommodates preferred prejudices and the other crushes dissent spells the end of a once-great global democracy. Britain is dying. Not through conquest or catastrophe, but through the quiet collapse of the principles that made…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1175+ words) After two centuries of persecution, the Sabbatarians, a religious community in Transylvania, converted en masse to Judaism. When the Hungarian Parliament declared Jewish emancipation in 1867, a Transylvanian peasant community known as the Sabbatarians interpreted the new law as permission to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (441+ words) The Hanukkah miracle sparked a century of Jewish sovereignty'and a princess whose marriage to Herod turned glory into tragedy. Miriam's life is the Hasmonean dynasty's final flame. Miriam's life plays out like a Greek tragedy in Hebrew letters: heroic, dramatic,…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (520+ words) Behind Hitler's propaganda stood Leni Riefenstahl'filmmaker, artist, denier. A new documentary, drawn from her private archives, reveals the truths she never admitted. Leni Riefenstahl remains one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th century. A gifted filmmaker whose propaganda films…...