Monday, October 19, 2026

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH L'DOR V'DOR

 



October 18, 2026

  1. New: Confirm Known Relationships with DNA Matches on MyHeritage

  2. New Genealogy Website To Try: Find your ancestors in the open archives of the world

  3. Ancestry Just Launched a New Community Site—Here's a Tour

  4. Fold 3 Update

  5. Family Search New Free Historical Records from 26 Countries

  6. How Columbus brought America its first Jew

  7. Buried, forgotten, demolished: Archaeologist searches for New York City’s lost mikvehs

  8. Sweet home Alabama: An unlikely Jewish story of the Deep South

  9. Medieval Joel ben Simeon sefarim for sale in £12m Judaica auction

  10. Israel returns 22 artifacts as Greece pushes to bring antiquities home

  11. This town in the Alps rescued Jews from the Nazis

  12. Yohanan Ben Zakkai

  13. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi

  14. Rebecca Gratz: The Woman Who Protected America's Jewish Children from Christian Missionaries

  15. Why Evangelical Christians are hell-bent on finding Noah’s Ark

  16. History and Development of Shabbat

  17. On Columbus Day, remember Abraham Zacuto, the Jewish astronomer history forgot

  18. A major Jewish museum hopes to join the Smithsonian – at a difficult moment for the storied institution

  19. The Venice, Italy Jewish Museum is reopening after a full-scale, multi-million-euro revamp and expansion that kept it closed for six years

  20. The synagogue in Seini, Romania is reopening after its full-scale restoration

  21. Sephardic Cuisine

  22. These legendary magicians made their Jewish identities — poof! — disappear

  23. Tzitzit, the Fringes on the Prayer Shawl. Fringes for four-cornered garments

  24. Kandinsky painting, restituted to Jewish family after Nazi looting, sells for over $42 million

  25. Nine Stunning Jewish Facts About Marilyn Monroe

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This Jewish heritage news digest is this week’s NewsNosh (The Weekly News Nosh) from L’Dor V’Dor Foundation—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. This week’s NewsNosh Jewish heritage news digest includes DNA matches, new historical records, Jewish museums, Sephardic cuisine, and more.

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA