After lighting a Hanukkah candle, which takes a couple of seconds, what would be the logical next step? There is! Of course, there is latkes, writes CBS News. Crispy, fried and lightly onion-flavored, these deliciously filled potato pancakes are loved by everyone. Why Latkes? Simple answer…

Lev Theremin created the musical instrument theremin, which was admired by Rachmaninoff, Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, the first alarms and the Zlatoust bug, which for years delivered news from the office of the US Ambassador to Moscow to the Soviet secret services. In an interview with Jewish.ru, his great-grandson Pyotr Termen told how his great-grandfather became ...

American writer Edward Kritzler in his book “Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean” dwells on little-known pages of the history of the Jewish people. Kritzler, living in Jamaica, devoted many years to researching Jewish piracy. “How a generation of desperately brave Jews created their own empire in an effort to enrich themselves, gain religious...