Grazia Nasi was the leader of those Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity during the years of the Inquisition, but continued to secretly practice Judaism. The Spaniards called them marans (pig - Spanish) for the fact that, while visiting Catholic churches, they continued to observe Jewish traditions. To them,…

The time is approaching for a report on the work done in the New York State Assembly by our assembler Stephen Simbrovitz. On September 13, he will compete in the primary to continue his parliamentary work for the Democratic Party. At a campaign fundraising evening, ...

In the 60s and 70s of the last century, in Moscow and Leningrad, I was always delighted with new, fashionably dressed girls and women with unusual hairstyles. It seemed that the poetess Veronika Tushnova wrote about them: “On Gorky Street - what a walk! Girl ...

Congratulations to the creators of the film "Code of Life: Theresienstadt Resort" with a victory at the International Film Festival in Houston (USA) - "Special Jury Prize"! Forum editorial staff It seemed that we had just recently talked with the famous singer Svetlana Portnyanskaya about her unexpected work as a documentary film producer ...

In memory of the physicist Efim Samoilovich Fradkin Dedicated to Rimma Mikhailovna Fradkina, who preserved her husband's invaluable archive, thanks to which this essay became possible. On May 24, 1999, after a serious illness, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the XNUMXth century, Efim Samoilovich Fradkin, passed away. His works…

Lag ba-Omer is a very special day, which differs sharply from other days of the Omer counting period. Lag - that is, the letters "lamed" and "gimel" - is the designation of the number "33". Lag ba-Omer - the thirty-third day of the Omer, 18 Iyar. Tradition says that in ...

Conversation with not indifferent people - I was not going to be the director of the school, - Leonid Bard and I stunned me from the first phrase of p. Asher Altshul, when in the office of the headmaster of Elite Jewish High School in Brooklyn we started talking about Jewish ...

We met Valery Bazarov, the hero of this interview, on the eve of his 70th birthday. The work of Valery, the author of wonderful articles in the "Forverts - Forum" of different years, an expert on Jewish genealogy, a person devoted to the Jewish cause, who found and connected dozens of people scattered around the world, is loved and ...

In America, Slava remained independent and determined. Certainly, even at a young age, he was a person whose reliability could be relied on in difficult times. Continuation. Beginning at # 390 There was little his parents could do for his studies, but Marilyn Rofsky, ...

Centennials of 2012 In 2012, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of ... ... Konrad Bloch (21.01.1912 - 15.10.2000), an outstanding biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1964 for discovering the mechanisms of regulation of cholesterol and fatty acids metabolism. He described the process of transformation of fatty ...