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- This 23andMe Data Breach Settlement Could Pay You Up to $10,000. You have a couple weeks left to get in on the $30 million class-action settlement and see if you qualify for the maximum payout. Read more from CNET: This 23andMe Data Breach Settlement Could Pay You Up to $10,000: Here’s How – CNET
- 23andMe…The Latest. Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million. Her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, outbid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Read the story from NBC News: Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million
- Celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday with Fold3. Get premium access for a month for $2.50 billed monthly was $7.95. Offer good for new subscribers until June 30: join-250 – Fold3
- The Association of Descendants of Jewish Central Poland (ADJCP) The ADJCP is open to all the persons who, regardless of their current religion, ethnicity, or national origin, trace their ancestry to families from the Jewish communities of Central Poland. Check out their web page and activities: ADJCP – Preserving the cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of Central Poland.
- Scanned records and a database offer hard-to-find information on Russian immigrants. The Central Intelligence Agency once held the records of Russian immigrants who lived in Shanghai under occupation of the Japanese and later immigrated to the USA. Now U.S. National Archives has posted scans of these records from 1940-1945.(NARA also has a resource page on Jewish Shanghai visas.) Read more from Lost Russian Family: Scanned records and a database offer hard-to-find information on Russian immigrants – Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
- Recent June 2025 Updates From The All Galicia Database: All Galicia Database | Gesher Galicia Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
- The Weekly News Nosh Jewish United States History Fact. Have you ever heard of Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order #11? This discriminatory order, the forced removal of innocent Jewish citizens from their homes, was the most blatantly anti-Jewish regulation issued in the history of the United States. It happened during the Civil War on December 17, 1862, expelling all Jews from Grant’s Military District and was countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln on January 4, 1863, when he heard about it. Read the story: Valerie Gottridge.pdf
- Archaeologists find unique 1,700-year-old sarcophagus depicting booze battle with a god. A marble coffin with vivid carvings of a fabled face-off between Heracles and Dionysus discovered in Caesarea is the sole example in the region and likely belonged to a wealthy family. Read the story from The Times of Israel: Archaeologists find unique 1,700-year-old sarcophagus depicting booze battle with a god | The Times of Israel
- Global Jewish population grew by just under a million from 2010 to 2020, Pew says. In that span, the Jewish population went up from about 14 to 15 million, “fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939 prior to the Holocaust.” Read the details from JNS: Global Jewish population grew by just under a million from 2010 to 2020, Pew says – JNS.org
- Jewish brothers sue French government for using seized family home as Iraqi embassy. Descendants of Ezra and Khedouri Lawee are claiming up to £15 million in lost rent. Read their story from Jewish News UK: Jewish brothers sue French government for using seized family home as Iraqi embassy – Jewish News
- 25 US cadets and midshipmen arrive in Poland for the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s (AJCF) American Service Academies Program (ASAP). Participants engage with survivors, scholars, elected officials and educators across two continents in a journey of remembrance and responsibility. It is an impactful 16-day educational experience that challenges future military leaders to confront the history of the Holocaust and apply its lessons to modern-day ethical leadership. Read about this program from JNS: 25 US cadets and midshipmen arrive in Poland for American Service Academies Program – JNS.org
- The Lost Music of Auschwitz. Emotive production brings to life lost manuscripts of work composed in the concentration camp. Never before has this work been publicly staged and the performance – it does not fall into any single category, being a mix of ballet, opera and theatre – is a remarkable production paying tribute to the musicians who were imprisoned in Auschwitz yet still continued to create new music. Read more from Jewish News UK: REVIE W: The Lost Music of Auschwitz, Bloomsbury Theatre – Jewish News
- National Days of Jewish service serves up 9,000 acts of goodness. The program was spearheaded by Repair the World with service projects offered in 85 cities worldwide. Repair the World powered 128 programs across the Jewish service movement, mobilizing 9,500 volunteers in 85 cities across the world. In partnership with 142 organizations, including 53 service partners, the campaign generated over 9,700 acts of service and Jewish learning. Read more about this program from JNS: National Days of Jewish service serve up 9,000 acts of goodness – JNS.org
- Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys. While under no illusions that the 1,000-year-old language will be revived outside the Haredi community, the outgoing Yiddish Book Center founder sees it offering new windows into Jewish culture. Read the story from The Times of Israel: Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys | The Times of Israel
- The sculptural pre-WW2 tombs by the artist Abraham Ostrzega in Warsaw’s Okopowa Jewish Cemetery. Ostrzega was murdered in Treblinka. Jewish cemeteries in Europe range from tiny village graveyards to sprawling city necropolises. Many of the larger urban cemeteries are noted for their elaborate family tombs — and also for monuments and mausolea designed by leading sculptors and architects. Read more from Jewish Heritage Europe: https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2025/06/12/poland-okopowa-ostrzega/
- Jewish man marries into Iranian royal family. Bradley Sherman has married Princess Iman, daughter of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. 2,500 years after the Purim story, a Jewish person has again married into the Persian royal family. Read their story from Jewish News UK: Jewish man marries into Iranian royal family – Jewish News
- An Israeli and an Iranian step onto a judo mat — and make a thriller about a forbidden relationship. Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s ‘Tatami’ is a gripping story that mirrors its own international production. Nattiv, an Oscar winner for his short film Skin and director of the Golda Meir biopic Golda, took inspiration from Mollae when he started work on Tatami. Read more from The Forward: ‘Tatami’ is a sports thriller directed by an Israeli and an Iranian – The Forward
- Florida post office renamed for Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis. Naming a post office in Delray Beach, Fla., after Benjamin Berell Ferencz, a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis during the Nuremberg trials, is an effort to “not only remember the man” but also to “reaffirm the values he stood for: justice, human dignity and the courage to speak out against hate.” Read more from JNS: Florida post office renamed for Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis – JNS.org
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