New York Jewish Travel Guide sat down with Meri Kohen Gershman, Founder & Creative Director of Meri Lou Jewelry to ask a few questions about her 2022 Jewelry collections, inspirations, and influences. NYJTG – What was your inspiration to become a jewelry designer? Meri Kohen Gershman – Since my early years, I had a keen […]
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Cousins and Ukrainian refugees Lesia Orshoko and Alona Chugai are among the millions who are running for their lives as Russian forces invade their country. But in a wartime twist of fate, the cousins landed in Israel last week to a friendly face — someone who was repaying a decades-old kindness. The friendly face was […]
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The one-of-a-kind place for Torah study and celebration serves a large student population. In the 13th arrondissement of Paris, where classic Baroque and Belle Époque architecture meets modern high-rises, boats of all kinds dot the left bank of the River Seine. The neighborhood, home to several colleges and universities, is teeming with students from around […]
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Soon after Rabbi Moti Grumach moved to Kyoto, Japan, about three years ago to serve as an emissary there for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he realized that a local craft dovetailed neatly with Jewish traditions. Warosoku, or candles made from the fruit of the haze tree — or Japanese sumac, sometimes called the wax tree — […]
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Built in 1913, Royallieu military barracks, which extended over 20 hectares, was transformed into an internment camp for 1944 to 1941 political prisoners Part of the former camp Royallieu (3 buildings on 24) was preserved to become the Memorial internment and deportation. About 50 000 people, men, and women (political prisoners, resistance fighters, Jews, foreigners) […]
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This new digital resource takes the form of a freely available interactive website, which maps stories, histories, and recollections of the Jewish community who once lived in the Cheetham Hill, Strangeways, and Hightown areas of North Manchester. The Memory Map of Jewish Manchester aims to create a lasting document of the living memory of […]
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Once, on my travels in the US, I encountered a young lady who had recently emigrated from Kenya. I recognized her origins by her distinctive accent. When I mentioned that I, too, was African, she looked at me aghast, not believing that someone of European appearance with a neo-British accent could have been born and […]
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Tangier is a mixture of North Africa, Spain, Portugal, and France. it is the ideal melting pot and has a rich Jewish history. This beautiful city, only 35 minutes from Spain by hydrofoil or two hours by normal ferry boat service, is a multicultural society, predominantly Muslim, but with small Christian and Jewish communities who […]
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Standing on the bimah of the Great Synagogue of Slonim in what is now Belarus is a profound and moving experience; the ghosts swirl, someone in our group is crying. The Nazis set out not just to annihilate the Jewish people, but also destroy their culture, consigning their very existence to oblivion. In places like […]
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Evidence has emerged of a second Japanese diplomat who provided visas to European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, raising the prospect that further undiscovered heroes are waiting to be recognized. Saburo Nei — who served as Imperial Japan’s consul-general in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok during World War II — issued transit visas for […]
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