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October 18, 2026

New: Confirm Known Relationships with DNA Matches on MyHeritage New Genealogy Website To Try: Find your ancestors in the open archives of the world Ancestry Just Launched a New Community Site—Here's a Tour Fold 3 Update Family Search New Free Historical Records from 26 Countries How Columbus brought America its first Jew Buried, forgotten, demolished: Archaeologist searches for New York City’s lost mikvehs Sweet home Alabama: An unlikely Jewish story of the Deep South Medieval Joel ben Simeon sefarim for sale in £12m Judaica auction Israel returns 22 artifacts as Greece pushes to bring antiquities home This town in the Alps rescued Jews from the Nazis Yohanan Ben Zakkai Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi Rebecca Gratz: The Woman Who Protected America's Jewish Children from Christian Missionaries Why Evangelical Christians are hell-bent on finding Noah’s Ark History and Development of Shabbat On Columbus Day, remember Abraham Zacuto, the Jewish astronomer history forgot A major Jewish museum hopes to join the Smithsonian – at a difficult moment for the storied institution The Venice, Italy Jewish Museum is reopening after a full-scale, multi-million-euro revamp and expansion that kept it closed for six years The synagogue in Seini, Romania is reopening after its full-scale restoration Sephardic Cuisine These legendary magicians made their Jewish identities — poof! — disappear Tzitzit, the Fringes on the Prayer Shawl. Fringes for four-cornered garments Kandinsky painting, restituted to Jewish family after Nazi looting, sells for over $42 million Nine Stunning Jewish Facts About Marilyn Monroe

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Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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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 WEEKLY NEWS NOSH Jewish Heritage · Jewish History · Jewish Family History Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Headlines September 27, 2026

NARA quietly expands two databases of its most valuable immigration collections to 2.5 million files Relatives from South Africa? Register for RootsTech 2027 Two Newly Identified Y-Chromosome Lineages with likely Silk Road origins in Kurdish and Bukharan Jewry OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Cracked a Nazi Enigma Message in 10 Hours How to Find a Yahrzeit Date Thailand’s Jewish story He was a hidden child during WWII. The French town that saved him lost his painting and rediscovered a chapter of its history The Indian Jewish general who shaped the birth of Bangladesh Israel’s Biblical Museum displays elephant sukkah The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art: 5,000 Years of Jewish Art & History A new chapter for the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre An Amateur Film Reel from Camp Boiberik Nobody can tell me how many animals die for a shtreimel First-ever Hanukkah Barbie sparks both outrage and excitement with ‘beautiful’ big nose: ‘She deserved better.’ ‘The Jazz Singer’: How the world’s first ‘talkie’ could not be more Jewy The Trailer for Season 3 of Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ Features Conversion Class Led by Sarah Silverman