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Why Was Jewish Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Shot Dead?

On January 18, 2015, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, the day before he was scheduled to testify against president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. A new documentary, Los Abandonados, provides a tight summary of the events leading up to Nisman’s death and a damning portrait of a […]

By Leah Falk

Another Astonishingly Talented Jewish Painter Who Was Killed by the Third Reich

The Painter Charlotte Salomon Killed Her Grandfather. Then the Nazis Killed Her.

2017 marks the hundredth year since the birth of Charlotte Salomon, one of the last century’s greatest, darkest, and most under-appreciated Jewish painters. Charlotte Salomon grew up at a bad time. She lost her mother at a young age, and then only made it through two years at a prestigious Berlin art school before the […]

Turkey Coops + Lip Balm = Chabad in Maine

Maine: Home of the Burt’s Bees Chabad House and Moose

In the annals of “things named in honor of people,” a Chabad House doesn’t necessarily register. But just last month, a center in Portland, Maine was dedicated in honor of an unlikely character: Burt Shavitz. Yeah, the guy on your beeswax lip balm, variously described as a “cantankerous hippie” and “scruffy face of Burt’s […]