The Weekly News Nosh - August 23, 2026 Edited by Phil Goldfarb

 

CLICK HERE TO READ THE AUGUST 23 NEWS NOSH About The Weekly News Nosh The Weekly News Nosh (NewsNosh) is the L’Dor V’Dor Foundation’s weekly Jewish heritage news digest—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. NewsNosh is published on Sundays and shared on our website and social media platforms. “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is Like A Tree Without Roots.” Subscribe to receive NewsNosh every Sunday, directly in your inbox. Browse past issues of our Jewish heritage news digest in the NewsNosh archive. Headlines August 23, 2026

New on MyHeritage: Trace Your Paternal Line Back Thousands of Years with Y-DNA She thought the Holocaust erased her family. Then a DNA test found 50 relatives How a 19th century murder introduced Americans to a Jewish funeral The Mass Migration to Israel of the 1950s 15 Jewish Communities in the Most Unexpected Places on Earth In the army, again? 80 years after the Holocaust, Germany’s Jews consider conscription How Three Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch An open-air exhibit and informational displays unveiled at the Jewish cemetery in Klaipeda, Lithuania In Poland, Even Winnie-the-Pooh Has a Holocaust Story Amid bombs, drone-strikes and blackouts, these non-Jewish Ukrainian students are studying Yiddish The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Who Was Hillel? Louis Brandeis, First Jewish Supreme Court Justice Jewish Languages: From Aramaic to Yiddish These Celebrities Got Their Start at Jewish Day School Grossinger’s Catskills resort to be redeveloped as year-round destinatio

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The Weekly News Nosh – August 16, 2026 About The Weekly News Nosh The Weekly News Nosh (NewsNosh) is the L’Dor V’Dor Foundation’s weekly Jewish heritage news digest—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. NewsNosh is published on Sundays and shared on our website and social media platforms. “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is Like A Tree Without Roots.” Subscribe to receive NewsNosh every Sunday, directly in your inbox. Browse past issues of our Jewish heritage news digest in the NewsNosh archive. CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEWS NOSH Headlines August 16, 2026

IAJGS Call for Proposals Now Open (deadline Sept 15) IGRA Updates its Database Search Tool with Results Counters from JewishGen and Gesher Galicia A new database and map that document Holocaust monuments and memorials throughout the Czech Republic has been launched Family Search: New Free Historical Records from 22 Countries | August 2026 Update How the Jews Changed the World The Surprising History of Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation Montenegro’s tiny Jewish community navigates uncertain territory as hostility toward Israel increases The Jews of Kaifeng: China’s Only Native Jewish Community How the Kefalonia killings led to the World War II massacre of Greece’s Jews Holocaust hero’s documentary wins best short film prize at US festival The Very Jewish History of the Teddy Bear History of Jewish Prayer Jewish Clothing Israel-Lebanon talks said to include request to relocate Jewish graves to Israel Poland: Inmates from the Czerwony Bór Prison will help maintain Jewish cemeteries thanks to a new agreement between the prison and FODŻ The Oldest Jewish Summer Camp in the U.S. Has a Surprising Number of Famous Alumni Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that How a monument to a Jewish Confederate ended up in a storage unit, next to a vacuum cleaner A Jewish philanthropist funded this pioneering school for Black students. Now it’s getting a second life Lithuania’s Lost Shtetl Museum ranked among seven most beautiful museums worldwide ‘Annihilation through work’: London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII The most Jewish room in Fremont, Ohio, is in a county history museum Chabad is breathing new life into a mortuary in San Francisco’s Mission District There’s a new Judaism in town — or maybe it’s very, very old 1,300-year-old industrial, commercial complex uncovered in Ramat Gan The Lynching of Leo Frank The 5 Best Jewish Moments on ‘Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness’

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The Weekly News Nosh – August 9, 2026 Aug 9, 2026 | Nosh CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEWS NOSH Headlines August 9, 2026

Ancestry’s New AI “Fill in Timeline Gaps” Feature: A First Look SWIGGI Italy (Simon Wiesenthal Genealogy Geolocation Initiative) is now live Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) Database Adds 214,000 Records and Grows to More Than 7.2 Million Records How to Find a Jewish Grave Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Jews dispute its future Jewish Immigrants in the Garment Industry New museum opens at UK mansion where captive Nazi officers were spied on to glean secrets George Mantello: How One Man Saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews Saudi Arabia’s Forgotten Jewish History After centuries in India, the last Cochin Jews try to keep their history alive The real Jewish story of Ceuta, Spain’s migrant-magnet neighbor to Morocco The Kurdish Jews Who Never Stopped Speaking Aramaic History of Conversion Masada AI rabbis? Some NY Hasidic groups see new technology as a challenge, others as a tool What Does a Cantor Do? Long-lost Byzantine-era vines are again cultivated on ancient Negev terraces Who Are the Semites? This Jewish museum is lending art across America — with one condition Klezmer Music Is Having a Revival Orthodox Jews are scootering to synagogue. Will Shabbat ever be the same? The First Official Barbra Streisand Documentary Is Coming About The Weekly News Nosh The Weekly News Nosh (NewsNosh) is the L’Dor V’Dor Foundation’s weekly Jewish heritage news digest—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. NewsNosh is published on Sundays and shared on our website and social media platforms. “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is Like A Tree Without Roots.” Subscribe to receive NewsNosh every Sunday, directly in your inbox. Browse past issues of our Jewish heritage news digest in the NewsNosh archive.

GENEALOGY RESEARCH CLASS AT THE MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JCC TO BEGIN IN OCTOBER 2026

 Family history has been one of the most rewarding journeys of my life. Every document, photograph, and forgotten record has added another piece to the story of those who came before us.

I'd love to help you experience that same sense of discovery. If you've ever wanted to learn more about your family's journey—or help preserve it for your children and grandchildren—I hope you'll join me.

Please share this announcement with anyone who enjoys history, family stories, or solving mysteries. I look forward to meeting many new family historians!

If you have any questions about the class or genealogy research in general, please feel free to contact me at jgsgm.president@gmail.com. I'd be happy to hear from you.