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