by Marlis Humphrey | Oct 14, 2021 | Survey
The Challenge Eighty percent of the Jewish population of Venezuela has left the country since Hugo Chaves became president in 1999. Nicolas Maduro Moros has been president since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019. The country is engulfed in turmoil...
by Marlis Humphrey | Oct 14, 2021 | Survey
Our Challenge At least eight (and some say 16) Jews arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Much of the documentation of Jewish lives in Australia has survived. Documentation of Australian Jewish life since then does exist, but what exactly has survived and...
by Marlis Humphrey | Oct 14, 2021 | Stories
by Sallyann Amdur Sack A well-known passage from the musical play Fiddler on the Roof illustrates how 19th-century Russian Jews felt about the czar: Rebbe, is there a blessing for the czar? A blessing for the czar? Of course…. May the Lord bless and keep the...
by Marlis Humphrey | Oct 14, 2021 | Stories
by Sara Wenger In 1988–89, I spent my junior year of college studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. My “History of Eastern European Jewry” professor assigned, as a final paper, a family tree written within the historical context of what we had learned during...
