Saturday, October 3, 2026

THE WEEKLY 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.


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Jewish Heritage · Jewish History · Jewish Family History

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA


Headlines

September 27, 2026

  1. NARA quietly expands two databases of its most valuable immigration collections to 2.5 million files

  2. Relatives from South Africa?

  3. Register for RootsTech 2027

  4. Two Newly Identified Y-Chromosome Lineages with likely Silk Road origins in Kurdish and Bukharan Jewry

  5. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Cracked a Nazi Enigma Message in 10 Hours

  6. How to Find a Yahrzeit Date

  7. Thailand’s Jewish story

  8. He was a hidden child during WWII. The French town that saved him lost his painting and rediscovered a chapter of its history

  9. The Indian Jewish general who shaped the birth of Bangladesh

  10. Israel’s Biblical Museum displays elephant sukkah

  11. The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art: 5,000 Years of Jewish Art & History

  12. A new chapter for the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

  13. An Amateur Film Reel from Camp Boiberik

  14. Nobody can tell me how many animals die for a shtreimel

  15. First-ever Hanukkah Barbie sparks both outrage and excitement with ‘beautiful’ big nose: ‘She deserved better.’

  16. ‘The Jazz Singer’: How the world’s first ‘talkie’ could not be more Jewy

  17. The Trailer for Season 3 of Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ Features Conversion Class Led by Sarah Silverman

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH September 20, 2026

 




Painting of men and boys with prayer books and striped prayer shawls in a synagogue with Hebrew inscriptions and ornate railings.


Headlines

September 20, 2026

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 Yom Kippur traditions, genealogy research tools, archaeological discoveries, Holocaust remembrance, and more.

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

  1. In Observance of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement…

  2. Far from the Holy of Holies: How did ancient Jews observe Yom Kippur 2,000 years ago?

  3. Israel unveils National Archaeological Database with some 4 million records

  4. Finding Family History in School Records

  5. ‘A Call to Courage’: Czech parliament to pay historic tribute to 129 ‘Righteous Among the Nations.’

  6. Exhibit at NY Holocaust museum shows how Jews tried to ‘speak through history’ by hiding items in death camps

  7. This Filter Makes DNA Matches Easier to Place

  8. FindAGrave: Search Genealogy Websites

  9. Jewish geneticist finds mutation behind sudden deaths that haunted her family for decades

  10. How to Greet Someone on Yom Kippur

  11. One Woman’s Yom Kippur Sermon During the Holocaust

  12. Kol Nidrei

  13. Kapparot, Swinging a Chicken Over One’s Head

  14. 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath uncovered intact in southern Israel

  15. Follow up to above story: 25-ton Second Temple-era mikveh lifted from ground intact during Kiryat Gat construction

  16. ‘We are home again’: Vienna’s Jewish community welcomes renovation of 200-year-old synagogue

  17. ‘Long overdue’: Henry Ford home to confront his antisemitism

  18. LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring

  19. How synagogues and Southern Jews came to mourn Robert E. Lee

  20. The Founder of the Women’s Pro Baseball League Is an Inspiring Jewish Woman

  21. Jewish sleepaway camp made them comedians, so they made a movie about it

  22. ‘The Housewife’ Review: Naomi Watts Is Chilling In Disturbing Post-Holocaust Drama With A Surprising Twist

  23. Elstree Studios in the UK: 100 years in the making

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH September 13, 2026

 





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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.

A Happy, Healthy, and Sweet New Year to All... Phil Goldfarb

  1. JewishGen’ s Memorials & Plaques Database Grows to 368,000 Records

  2. New update to the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database

  3. Important new resource: A Living Story Across Europe – Handbook on Jewish Heritage, developed by the AEPJ and published by the European Commission

  4. Family Search: New Free Historical Records from 31 Countries | September 2026 Update

  5. All 24 volumes of the important journal Jewish Art, formerly the Journal of Jewish Art, have been digitalized and made freely available for download

  6. Sotheby’s selling one of ‘most significant’ manuscripts by renowned Jewish medieval artist Joel ben Simeon that have not been seen in 100 years

  7. Must-Know Rosh Hashanah Words and Phrases

  8. How the Yiddish project took root in the U.S. after the Holocaust

  9. How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

  10. He went to a different Manhattan synagogue every week. Here’s what it taught him

  11. Western Wall Foundation completes pre-holiday removal of prayer notes from holy site

  12. How did ancient Israelites make wine?

  13. Over 20,000 olim made Aliyah to Israel from 100 countries in past year, data shows

  14. In Taiwan, a new cemetery marks rebirth of Jewish life

  15. Argentine court orders return of Nazi-looted painting found via a real estate ad

  16. German general honored for helping restore identities of fallen Jewish soldiers

  17. Switzerland releases 200-page intelligence dossier on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele

  18. In a San Francisco garage, this 84-year-old keeps the art of shofar making alive

  19. Gal Gadot Blows a Shofar on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’

  20. A Recipe for Remembering – How Jewish Cookbooks Preserve Family Stories

  21. The Jewish Roots of Rummikub

  22. Carnegie Deli Opened 89 Years Ago. 10 Years After Closing Its Doors, It’s Returning to N.Y.C

  23. Paws for reflection: early Rosh Hashanah service for pet dog’s delights congregants.

Monday, September 7, 2026

THE WEEKLY NEWS NOSH - SEPTEMBER 6, 2026


 

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Headlines

September 6, 2026

  1. Introducing Learning Paths at Legacy Family Tree Webinars

  2. AI transcribes almost 24 million Russian archive record pages for free searching

  3. 189 New Papers added to Newspapers.com

  4. NEW… Issue 4 of Jewish Genealogy: IIJG Journal

  5. Uncover Hidden Paper Trails: New Confederate Quartermaster Records Live on Fold3!

  6. Today, September 6, kicks off the annual European Days of Jewish Culture – EDJC

  7. Sunken Irgun 'Altalena' arms ship discovered intact after 78 years

  8. Visualizing the Splendor: New 3D Reconstructions of the Temple Mount Courts

  9. 1,600-year-old Samson mosaic goes on public display in Galilee

  10. Bedouin shepherds found it. A bishop sold it. An Israeli agent bought it

  11. Border Police discover Second Temple-period burial cave during operations in eastern Jerusalem

  12. The long-derelict synagogue in the village of Radzanów, Poland will become a branch of the Mazovian Museum in Płock

  13. Early Kabbalah and the Hasidei Ashkenaz

  14. Orthodox Judaism

  15. The Jews of Russia

  16. Ze’ev Jabotinsky

  17. Marking the New Year…From Yad Vashem

  18. A little-remembered Gilded Age millionaire helped make milk safe for American kids through his ‘retail giving’

  19. Bronx walking tour animates Fordham neighborhood’s forgotten Jewish sites

  20. Jewish farmers planted an ancient seed. Now the fruit is making its American culinary debut

  21. Why Do Jews Dip Apples in Honey on Rosh Hashanah?

  22. Counting the Jewish Years

  23. German schools to get Jewish religious education books as part of curriculum for first time since Holocaust

  24. War-weary Ukrainian students learn Yiddish to reclaim a Jewish past nearly erased at home

  25. Meet the first Jewish president of a Catholic university

  26. Remembering Gloria Steinem’s Jewish Activist Grandmother

  27. Jewish Feminist Leaders

  28. The Inventor of the Shopping Cart Was a Jewish Man

  29. Bam Dot Crack!

    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.


Monday, August 24, 2026

The Weekly News Nosh - August 23, 2026 Edited by Phil Goldfarb

 


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

  1. New on MyHeritage: Trace Your Paternal Line Back Thousands of Years with Y-DNA

  2. She thought the Holocaust erased her family. Then a DNA test found 50 relatives

  3. How a 19th century murder introduced Americans to a Jewish funeral

  4. The Mass Migration to Israel of the 1950s

  5. 15 Jewish Communities in the Most Unexpected Places on Earth

  6. In the army, again? 80 years after the Holocaust, Germany’s Jews consider conscription

  7. How Three Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

  8. An open-air exhibit and informational displays unveiled at the Jewish cemetery in Klaipeda, Lithuania

  9. In Poland, Even Winnie-the-Pooh Has a Holocaust Story

  10. Amid bombs, drone-strikes and blackouts, these non-Jewish Ukrainian students are studying Yiddish

  11. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  12. Who Was Hillel?

  13. Louis Brandeis, First Jewish Supreme Court Justice

  14. Jewish Languages: From Aramaic to Yiddish

  15. These Celebrities Got Their Start at Jewish Day School

  16. Grossinger’s Catskills resort to be redeveloped as year-round destinatio

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