Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

Belarus is a multi-ethnic and multi-faith country. Orthodoxy is the most widespread religion in our state. Cathedrals, churches, monasteries are not only important places for believers. They are ...

Jewish Azeris are known as “mountain Jews” and many are the descendants of Persian Jews from Iran, which borders Azerbaijan. They have a distinct culture, including their own dialect, Judeo-Tat.

Construction on the site of a former Jewish ghetto in a Belarusian city has unearthed the remains of hundreds of people in WWII-era mass graves, prompting many locals to oppose a planned ...

The Nazi concentration camps of Jews, including Auschwitz in Poland, are internationally famous. A lady explaining to journalists some details of the massacre in Khatyn said even Jews were brought to ...

One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in ...

The 100-plus-year-old mural iwas found in the attic of an old building in North Adams. The building used to be a synagogue of the first Jewish Congregation in that town but has now been subdivided ...

An 81-year-old Dedham woman has made it her mission to save a 19th century mural that's a part of eastern European immigrant history.

(JTA) Earlier this year, a British Jewish nonprofit received a call from a young couple in the city of Brest, Belarus, who had just purchased a fixer-upper house and needed some help with a ...

When another guest accuses her of being a Jew of convenience she confronts a common dilemma, “What does it mean to be a Jew sans synagogue?” In midlife, she confronts the role that prior ...

Reclaiming the past with a long-awaited visit to the family shtetl and other towns along the way.