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“The Zionist Phantom” Closing Event

9/14/2021, 12:00 pm

Dana Arieli’s “Quneitra,” 2018 (Courtesy image)

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“Herzlmania”: 125 Years of Herzl’s “The Jewish State”

9/1/2021, 5:30 pm

Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland, at the First Zionist Congress (Courtesy photo: Central Zionist Archive/Simon Wiesenthal Center)

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Menachem Kaiser

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Menachem Kaiser: “Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure”

7/20/2021, 6:00 pm

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The Pearl of Vilna Crown: Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the Gaon of Vilna

7/8/2021, 12:00 pm

The Vilna Gaon

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Family History Today: Researching Your Historical LGBTQ+ Relatives

6/28/2021, 2:00 pm

Two best friends taking selfies in the park.

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History Course: Forgotten Lives

Up Next: 6/3/2021, 8:00 pm

Leslie Feinberg

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“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams”: A Conversation With Jonathan Ned Katz

6/23/2021, 4:00 pm

25-OK-Eve-in-Paris

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Israel Education Class for Young Professionals

Up Next: 5/4/2021, 7:30 pm

(Photo: tzahiV/iStock)

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10th Anniversary Celebration: Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center

6/10/2021, 5:30 pm

$72

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Miriam’s grandmother Diane at her junior high school graduation (Courtesy photo)

3/12/2018 Top Pick

An Interview With My Grandmother

By Miriam AnzovinFor JewishBoston

Billy Gawronski, seated front in black shirt (Courtesy Gizela Gawronski/Jósef Piłsudski Institute of America)

3/5/2018 Top Pick

Writer Laurie Gwen Shapiro Tells the True Story of a Stowaway

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

(Photo: natushm/iStock)

2/21/2018 Top Pick

Engage in a New Conversation About Israel

An innovative, pluralistic and welcoming approach to conversations about Israel brings "fresh air" to Open Circle Jewish Learning and Hebrew College.

By Rabbi Daniel LibenFor Open Circle Jewish Learning

The Holocaust monument in Amsterdam. (ASSOCIATED PRESS/PETER DEJONG)

2/2/2018 Top Pick

In 1942, the Unthinkable Played out at an Amsterdam Theater

An ordinary building became a way station in the process that sent thousands of people off to be slaughtered.

By The Boston Globe

Dara Horn (Photo: Michael B. Priest)

1/30/2018 Top Pick

The 2,000-Year-Old Woman

Dara Horn’s fifth novel, “Eternal Life,” is a fantastical take on Jewish history, feminism and the exhaustion of a 2,000-year-old woman who has lived several lives.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

(Public domain)

1/29/2018 Top Pick

In Boston, Holocaust-Era Rescue Stories Pierce the Darkness of Genocide

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a conversation about individual efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” and why the accounts still resonate.

By The Times of Israel

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Bob Dylan (Photo: Xavier Badosa/Flickr)

1/8/2018 Top Pick

Barry Shrage on Bob Dylan’s Long-Lost Israel Song

By JewishBoston

Aharon Appelfeld (Photo: Jwh/Wikimedia Commons)

1/5/2018 Top Pick

In Memory of Israeli Novelist Aharon Appelfeld

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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