Tuesday, May 12, 2026

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH from Phil Goldfarb and L'DOR V'DOR FOUNDATION

 




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"This Jewish heritage news digest is this week’s NewsNosh (The Weekly News Nosh) from L’Dor V’Dor Foundation—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. This week’s NewsNosh Jewish heritage news digest includes Pale of Settlement research, Holocaust memory, Jewish Paris, synagogue heritage, and more."

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Headlines

May 10, 2026

  1. Living Jewish In The Pale of Settlement

  2. MyHeritage Family Infographics

  3. The Free NARA Genealogy Cheat Sheet

  4. Ancient Connections: Where Archaeology Meets Your Ancestors

  5. Nine miles of archives: NYC Jewish history documents come to life in CUNY trove

  6. AI Holocaust content is booming. Is it all ‘slop’ — or a solution for fading firsthand memory?

  7. Her body has been unidentified for decades. Her Ashkenazi DNA may explain why

  8. What Is Lag B'Omer?

  9. The Last Twins: The Man Who Saved 80 Boys from Mengele

  10. The recent renovation of the former Kaukaska synagogue in Krynki, Poland nominated for an award

  11. Czech Republic: Archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of Brno’s monumental Great Synagogue

  12. New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America

  13. In Max and Richard Fleischer, was father like son?

  14. A tree of hope: Anne Frank sapling planted at Wagner honors past, inspires future

  15. France reckons with Nazi-looted art in a new Paris museum gallery

  16. As new Holocaust memorial stone laid in Berlin, relative says plaque serves as substitute for grave

  17. Brussels cathedral installs plaques apologizing for medieval antisemitic persecution depicted in stained glass

  18. Who Was Josephus? The Controversial Backstory of the Famed Historian

  19. Tracing Jewish Paris, from Herzl to the Holocaust

  20. Jewish History weekend brings medieval London back to life

  21. A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help

  22. How young people once used Yiddish personal ads to find a partner

  23. Michael Jackson biopic revives legend of Jewish music mogul who battled MTV’s ‘color barrier’

  24. What the private equity takeover means for the bagel industry

  25. A Jewish Expressionist artist’s life, preserved in a brownstone