The Weekly News Nosh for June 7, 2026

 

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Immigrant Heritage Month Jewish Genealogy: IIJG Journal, Issue 3 now available online Finding Female Ancestors in The U.S. Genealogy…A Cheat Sheet! Who Knew? GEDmatch has a YouTube Channel! Before You Erase the Jews, Read This Patrilineal Genetic Ancestry of Moroccan Jews A secret bunker, tunnel and a Star of David tell a story of Jewish resistance in a Polish town 85 years after Baghdad’s Farhud massacre, last survivors fear story is being forgotten Seven Siblings Survived the Holocaust and Emigrated to the US Together Sicily’s Forgotten Jewish Legacy The Chmielnicki Massacre: Ukraine's Celebrated Hero Was a Mass Murderer of Jews The Ashkenazic Great Synagogue in the Black Sea port of Constanţa, Romania has been rededicated with a joyous ceremony after a full restoration Number of Nazi victims’ descendants given German citizenship jumped 61% in 2025 A decaying historic farmhouse finds a savior in Chabad An organ divided a synagogue. The fallout helped create Reform Judaism Five Jewish WWI soldiers receive Star of David headstones in France after a century beneath crosses 12-year-old finds ancient gemstone in Galilean Jewish village cursed by Jesus Jewish Museum London unveils first public exhibition space since closure Bneimitzvah service breathes Jewish life back into German shul not used since Kristallnacht Eight Amazing Jewish NBA Players You Need To Know About Marilyn Monroe would be 100 today. Are we making too much of her conversion? This Yiddish Word Fills Us With So Much Pride and Contentment Tower of David Museum wants your old Western Wall photos ‘I AM ISRAEL’ campaign launched to attract American tourists Finalists announced for lucrative Jewish literary award

The Weekly News Nosh - May 31, 2026

 

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1. Free U.S. immigration records for Immigrant Heritage Month from MyHeritage

2. New in MyHeritage Ancient Origins: Discover Your Connection to Notable Individuals from History

3. New free database documents Nazi persecution victims within the Soviet Union

4. How to Back Up Your Ancestry Family Tree

5. What To Do With Old Letters

6. Can Ancestry DNA or MyHeritage DNA or FamilyTree DNA or 23andMe DNA Help Find Birth Parents?

7. A major new exhibit focuses on the discoveries made during the excavations of the site of the destroyed Vilnius Great Synagogue

8. At the edge of America, six Jewish graves endure

9. The First Blood Libel

10. Highlighting the JEWELS TOUR, an EU-funded project on the tourism potential of Jewish cultural heritage that is under way in six partner countries

11. New paths to German citizenship for families affected by Nazi persecution

12. ‘The Wanderers’ tells the story of Poland’s Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet Union

13. How 51 Boys Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz

14. New Woody Guthrie documentary is ‘Jewish film about very non-Jewish guy from tiny little town in Oklahoma’

15. Arthur Szyk: The Artist Who Fought Hitler with a Paintbrush

16. Yad Vashem to open first Holocaust education center outside Israel in Munich

17. A museum exhibit explores the Jewish fascination with the occult

18. Sir Isaac Newton and Judaism

19. How the 1919 solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous

20. ‘10 Agams in Iran’: The secret story of Israeli and Jewish art in the regime’s hands

21. The Jewish Samurai: Joseph Trumpeldor's Japanese Odyssey

22. Garry Trudeau was a prep school kid from New England, but he identified with the Jewish outsider in ‘Doonesbury’

23. Miami restaurant becomes first kosher eatery to earn Michelin Star

The Weekly News Nosh for May 26, 2026

 

The Weekly News Nosh May 24, 2026

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1. Free military records for Memorial Day

2. Newspapers.com adds 133 new papers spanning nine states and seven countries

3. The JGS Toronto has launched a FREE AI Resource Library — and it's open to everyone

4. Interviews with Holocaust survivors reveal the richness of Yiddish

5. Wiener Library launches Britain’s first exhibition on Nazi camp slave labor

6. Legacy Family Tree Webinars

7. What does a swastika mean?

8. Medieval France’s Blood Libel Playbook

9. Israel acquires world’s first kosher cookbook

10. Restoration work on the synagogue in Seini, Romania has been completed

11. Swiss teens clean up graves in Jewish cemetery to ‘take care of memory’

12. Israel OKs $85 million investment in heritage sites across Judea and Samaria

13. UK launches Jewish Culture Month

14. A nostalgic glimpse into Shavuot celebrations in pre-state Israel

15. More On Shavuot from Aish

16. A Biblical Story That Passes the Bechdel Test? Yes Please!

17. Did medieval Jews hide a ‘secret synagogue’ in tarot cards? Boston exhibit turns over clues

18. As AI spreads, Jewish groups grapple with what it means for Torah study

19. For Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday, an 85-minute playlist

20. Mel Brooks to Donate His Expansive Career Archive to National Comedy Center in New York

21. Jackie Tohn’s Jewish Summer Camp Movie Is Finally Coming to Theaters

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