Jewish firefighter Michael Farca heroically saved a Torah from a burning building on Long Island yesterday. With more than 60 firefighters on the scene, Michael realized that part of the building belonged to the Chabad of Greenvale. As the fire tore through the building, he went

On June 6, 1944, a synagogue on West 23rd Street in New York City held 24-hour special services on D-Day to pray for the Allied troops as they landed on the beaches of Normandy.

“This is my father, Marc Mordechai Peretz z”l. He was murdered trying to save me from the massacre at the Nova festival. When the rockets started, he got in the car and drove toward me alone. He ran over two terrorists, broke through police checkpoints, and kept going until He

“The word ‘Jew’ was written on the first page of my passport. People suggested I change my nationality. But I refused. My father, Moshe, was killed by the Nazis. My mother, Chaya, died shortly after from a heart attack. I was only four years old. And I had to be adopted. My

Anne Frank was born 96 years ago on June 12, 1929. On her 13th birthday in 1942, she received her diary that would become one of the most widely read testimonies of the Holocaust.

Praying for Israel 🇮🇱 Photo: Mark Neyman, Government Press Office 🇮🇱

This is an appreciation post for Daniel Gold, the inventor of Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome. Thank you!!

Here is a picture of survival. This is Eli Sharabi, holding a Torah, just months after surviving 491 days in captivity. He was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, when Hamas terrorists took him hostage and brought him to Gaza. When he was finally released this past

He spent 584 days in Hamas captivity. This afternoon in New Jersey, Edan Alexander returned to his hometown of Tenafly, where the entire community lined the streets to welcome him back. #BringThemAllHome 🎗️🇮🇱 Video: @lisanschechter

Michel Bacos was the captain of Air France Flight 139, which was hijacked and rerouted to Entebbe on June 27, 1976. On board were 240 passengers and 12 crew members when the flight took off from Tel Aviv. The hijackers released the non-Jewish hostages and offered to free Bacos

Naama Levy was only 19 years old when she was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7. She marked her 20th birthday in captivity in Gaza, where she was held for 477 days. Yesterday, she celebrated her 21st birthday in Israel, surrounded by former hostages Emily Damari,

Here is a picture of Am Yisrael Chai. While rockets fall across Israel during Operation Rising Lion, babies born in the sheltered maternity suites at Shaare Zedek Hospital wear onesies that read in Hebrew: "My mother is a lioness." Source: @shaarezedekjm

What do the logos for I ♥️ NY and the Celebrate Israel Parade have in common? Both were designed by Milton Glaser, one of the most renowned graphic designers in American history.   Milton Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, to Hungarian Jewish immigrants in the South Bronx. A

Mazal tov to Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf on making history yesterday as the first Israeli basketball players ever drafted back-to-back in the NBA first round by the Brooklyn Nets.

A note from Mark Twain about the Jewish people: “If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of,

They didn’t escape just to save themselves. They did it to warn the world. At just 17, Rudolf Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg, arrived at Auschwitz on June 30, 1942. Less than two years later, in April 1944, he and fellow prisoner Alfréd Wetzler managed to escape. Both Slovak Jews,

Here’s the Jewish history behind America’s most iconic doll: Barbie. Ruth Handler was born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Denver on November 14, 1916. Ruth married her high school sweetheart, Elliot, whom she first met when she was 16 at a B’nai B’rith dance. By 1938, the couple

George Washington visited the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 18, 1790. Built in 1763, it remains the oldest standing synagogue building in the United States. Following his visit, Washington responded to the Newport Jewish community with a historic letter

This is the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, nurse and humanitarian who defied the Nazis and secretly saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto.   Irena Sendler was born in 1910 to a Polish Catholic family. She was 29 years old when WWII broke out and worked for