Monday, September 7, 2026

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH - SEPTEMBER 6, 2026


 

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Headlines

September 6, 2026

  1. Introducing Learning Paths at Legacy Family Tree Webinars

  2. AI transcribes almost 24 million Russian archive record pages for free searching

  3. 189 New Papers added to Newspapers.com

  4. NEW… Issue 4 of Jewish Genealogy: IIJG Journal

  5. Uncover Hidden Paper Trails: New Confederate Quartermaster Records Live on Fold3!

  6. Today, September 6, kicks off the annual European Days of Jewish Culture – EDJC

  7. Sunken Irgun 'Altalena' arms ship discovered intact after 78 years

  8. Visualizing the Splendor: New 3D Reconstructions of the Temple Mount Courts

  9. 1,600-year-old Samson mosaic goes on public display in Galilee

  10. Bedouin shepherds found it. A bishop sold it. An Israeli agent bought it

  11. Border Police discover Second Temple-period burial cave during operations in eastern Jerusalem

  12. The long-derelict synagogue in the village of Radzanów, Poland will become a branch of the Mazovian Museum in Płock

  13. Early Kabbalah and the Hasidei Ashkenaz

  14. Orthodox Judaism

  15. The Jews of Russia

  16. Ze’ev Jabotinsky

  17. Marking the New Year…From Yad Vashem

  18. A little-remembered Gilded Age millionaire helped make milk safe for American kids through his ‘retail giving’

  19. Bronx walking tour animates Fordham neighborhood’s forgotten Jewish sites

  20. Jewish farmers planted an ancient seed. Now the fruit is making its American culinary debut

  21. Why Do Jews Dip Apples in Honey on Rosh Hashanah?

  22. Counting the Jewish Years

  23. German schools to get Jewish religious education books as part of curriculum for first time since Holocaust

  24. War-weary Ukrainian students learn Yiddish to reclaim a Jewish past nearly erased at home

  25. Meet the first Jewish president of a Catholic university

  26. Remembering Gloria Steinem’s Jewish Activist Grandmother

  27. Jewish Feminist Leaders

  28. The Inventor of the Shopping Cart Was a Jewish Man

  29. Bam Dot Crack!

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Monday, August 24, 2026

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

 


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

  1. New on MyHeritage: Trace Your Paternal Line Back Thousands of Years with Y-DNA

  2. She thought the Holocaust erased her family. Then a DNA test found 50 relatives

  3. How a 19th century murder introduced Americans to a Jewish funeral

  4. The Mass Migration to Israel of the 1950s

  5. 15 Jewish Communities in the Most Unexpected Places on Earth

  6. In the army, again? 80 years after the Holocaust, Germany’s Jews consider conscription

  7. How Three Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

  8. An open-air exhibit and informational displays unveiled at the Jewish cemetery in Klaipeda, Lithuania

  9. In Poland, Even Winnie-the-Pooh Has a Holocaust Story

  10. Amid bombs, drone-strikes and blackouts, these non-Jewish Ukrainian students are studying Yiddish

  11. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  12. Who Was Hillel?

  13. Louis Brandeis, First Jewish Supreme Court Justice

  14. Jewish Languages: From Aramaic to Yiddish

  15. These Celebrities Got Their Start at Jewish Day School

  16. Grossinger’s Catskills resort to be redeveloped as year-round destinatio

NEWS NOSH AUGUST 16-LITHUANIA'S LOST SHTETL MUSEUM


 





Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Weekly News Nosh - August 16, 2026

 

The Weekly News Nosh – August 16, 2026


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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.


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Headlines

August 16, 2026

  1. IAJGS Call for Proposals Now Open (deadline Sept 15)

  2. IGRA Updates its Database Search Tool with Results Counters from JewishGen and Gesher Galicia

  3. A new database and map that document Holocaust monuments and memorials throughout the Czech Republic has been launched

  4. Family Search: New Free Historical Records from 22 Countries | August 2026 Update

  5. How the Jews Changed the World

  6. The Surprising History of Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation

  7. Montenegro’s tiny Jewish community navigates uncertain territory as hostility toward Israel increases

  8. The Jews of Kaifeng: China’s Only Native Jewish Community

  9. How the Kefalonia killings led to the World War II massacre of Greece’s Jews

  10. Holocaust hero’s documentary wins best short film prize at US festival

  11. The Very Jewish History of the Teddy Bear

  12. History of Jewish Prayer

  13. Jewish Clothing

  14. Israel-Lebanon talks said to include request to relocate Jewish graves to Israel

  15. Poland: Inmates from the Czerwony Bór Prison will help maintain Jewish cemeteries thanks to a new agreement between the prison and FODŻ

  16. The Oldest Jewish Summer Camp in the U.S. Has a Surprising Number of Famous Alumni

  17. Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that

  18. How a monument to a Jewish Confederate ended up in a storage unit, next to a vacuum cleaner

  19. A Jewish philanthropist funded this pioneering school for Black students. Now it’s getting a second life

  20. Lithuania’s Lost Shtetl Museum ranked among seven most beautiful museums worldwide

  21. ‘Annihilation through work’: London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII

  22. The most Jewish room in Fremont, Ohio, is in a county history museum

  23. Chabad is breathing new life into a mortuary in San Francisco’s Mission District

  24. There’s a new Judaism in town — or maybe it’s very, very old

  25. 1,300-year-old industrial, commercial complex uncovered in Ramat Gan

  26. The Lynching of Leo Frank

  27. The 5 Best Jewish Moments on ‘Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness’

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH - August 9, 2026

 







The Weekly News Nosh – August 9, 2026

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Headlines

August 9, 2026

  1. Ancestry’s New AI “Fill in Timeline Gaps” Feature: A First Look

  2. SWIGGI Italy (Simon Wiesenthal Genealogy Geolocation Initiative) is now live

  3. Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) Database Adds 214,000 Records and Grows to More Than 7.2 Million Records

  4. How to Find a Jewish Grave

  5. Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Jews dispute its future

  6. Jewish Immigrants in the Garment Industry

  7. New museum opens at UK mansion where captive Nazi officers were spied on to glean secrets

  8. George Mantello: How One Man Saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews

  9. Saudi Arabia’s Forgotten Jewish History

  10. After centuries in India, the last Cochin Jews try to keep their history alive

  11. The real Jewish story of Ceuta, Spain’s migrant-magnet neighbor to Morocco

  12. The Kurdish Jews Who Never Stopped Speaking Aramaic

  13. History of Conversion

  14. Masada

  15. AI rabbis? Some NY Hasidic groups see new technology as a challenge, others as a tool

  16. What Does a Cantor Do?

  17. Long-lost Byzantine-era vines are again cultivated on ancient Negev terraces

  18. Who Are the Semites?

  19. This Jewish museum is lending art across America — with one condition

  20. Klezmer Music Is Having a Revival

  21. Orthodox Jews are scootering to synagogue. Will Shabbat ever be the same?

  22. 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.