Teaching the Holocaust in the modern era has its difficulties and rewards.

This year remains special for tourists who cannot help but recognize two momentous celebrations: The 75th anniversaries of the D-Day and the liberation of Paris.

Unfolded arms

Make travel more meaningful: tour a synagogue or participate in Shabbat or holiday services

The goal: to introduce Christian leaders to the breadth and depth of Jewish history in Poland and eastern Europe, until its near complete eradication 

A JUF board member returned to Russia on a recent Young Leadership Cabinet mission.

I visited the former Soviet Union as part of the Jewish Federations of North America (JNFA) National Young Leadership Cabinet Mission to St. Petersburg and Tbilisi.

Each Jewish community has its own unique ways to make Passover feel special: here are a few global traditions, which you can try in your own family too.

Within the Los Angeles area’s Jewish community, evacuees need immediate housing, large portions of three summer camps have burned to the ground, and a day school has been destroyed.

“India is history,” wrote the late Jawaharlal Nehru