Photo of the day: Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise (1920). From American Jewish Historical Society.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Take a minute to access one of the thousands of digitized Holocaust artifacts including over 300 oral histories and over 200 memoirs. Access.cjh.org
A few selections:
American Jewish Historical Society’s Photograph: Markers for graves of 80 victims found dead of Nazi brutality in the concentration camp at Ludwigslust http://access.cjh.org/210628
Leo Baeck Institute’s National Socialism…
Happy Tu B’Shevat!
It is the 15th of Shevat, the “New Year for Trees”—a holiday during which Jews reflect on the importance of respecting and preserving the environment.
Pictured above: Tree Planting circa 1934
Subjects: Israel; agriculture; children
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Sermons of Thanksgiving
By Lauren Gilbert
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History
Sermons of Thanksgiving
It is widely believed that the Pilgrims modeled their Thanksgiving feast after the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. In its modern incarnation as a secular festival focusing on gratitude, an appropriately Jewish concept, Thanksgiving has been observed by American Jews from its earliest days.