NYC Holocaust-education program surpasses first-year goal, city council member says “These students will one day share the stories they hear and educate the children of tomorrow,” New York City Council member Julie Menin told JNS. Vita Fellig June 26, 2025
New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage holds annual Generation to Generation event Marking its 25th anniversary, the Manhattan institution seeks to engage with the second and third generations of survivors. Avi Kumar Nov. 9, 2022
Jewish genealogy website helps Lviv digitalize records amid war JewishGen donated a planetary scanner to help the Central State Historical Archives in the Ukrainian city preserve vulnerable materials. Sept. 21, 2022
Fallout from Holocaust museum snub of Florida’s governor results in some funds removed “A Jewish museum that has permitted [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to speak during her campaign for election is stating falsehoods when it says [Ron] DeSantis can’t speak because ‘we don’t do politics,’ ” said Elliott Abrams, chairman of the Tikvah Fund. Mike Wagenheim May 10, 2022
The disgraceful politicization of Jewish institutions By refusing to allow a conference to be held in their building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution. Jonathan S. Tobin May 6, 2022
Yad Vashem partners with genealogy database to boost access to Holocaust records The partnership allows researchers to access Yad Vashem’s Pages of Testimony data when doing a search on the JewishGen website, which includes nearly 3.8 million Holocaust records. Jan. 12, 2022
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to hold tribute concert on 9/11 “Anniversaries provide an occasion to grieve those we’ve lost and to honor the acts of bravery and love that inspired us to carry on through dark and difficult days,” said museum president and CEO Jack Kliger. Aug. 23, 2021
Confederate flag is found tied to door of Jewish museum in New York City “These horrific acts of emboldened anti-Semitism must end,” said Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Jan. 8, 2021
Landmark Jerusalem building to house new museum celebrating Jewish heritage Empty for 12 years, a former orphanage will be transformed into Beit HaKehillot museum and community center dedicated to Jewish heritage. Abigail Klein Leichman Oct. 14, 2020
