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’