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THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH - August 9, 2026

 







The Weekly News Nosh – August 9, 2026

Aug 9, 2026 | Nosh


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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


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