On the anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, a question mark still hangs over the unfinished investigation, says Javier Sinay…
Last month, after 10 years in the post, Ian Lancaster stepped down as our Chairman and we welcomed Andrew Gordon into the role. He has been a member of our Board of Trustees for the past two years and is the son of our first ever Chair, Lionel Gordon. We are delighted to have…
After a decade in the making, Bishop Auckland's brand new Faith Museum will finally open its doors on Saturday 7 October. Housed in the Grade I-listed, 14th-century Scotland Wing of Auckland Castle, as well as a new…
Old coins, synagogue documents and newspapers dating back to 1873 have all been unearthed by Manchester Jewish Museum (MJM) in a 150-year-old time capsule. The sealed glass jar was first uncovered in 2020 in the museum’s Grade II-listed Spanish and Portuguese synagogue…
This month, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the completion of the digitisation of the papers of Chaim Grade, leading Yiddish writer, and his second wife…
This autumn the Museum of London (MoL) in Docklands is launching Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style, a brand new exhibition about the capital's pivotal fashion makers, designers and retailers throughout…
There was a delightful low-key hubbub on the coach I boarded in north London, all set to take us to Harwich, Essex, where a new monument to the Kindertransport was to be unveiled. The ‘kinder’ who arrived in this country…
During the 1940s and 1950s, as hundreds of thousands of Jews made aliyah to the newly founded State of Israel, a number of infants went missing. Most of them were from Yemen, but also the Middle East, North Africa and the…