The fake Jewish town is the backdrop for a potentially controversial movie on the 1941 murder of local Jews by their neighbors and the Nazis. (JTA) — In the woods of northern Ukraine, construction ...

The Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania is significant because it reflects international cooperation and interest.

It is against this context that the opening of the Lost Shtetl Museum is so significant. We are proud to be among the newest major Jewish museums, alongside some outstanding institutions in the US and ...

In a jammed media sphere littered with the crumbling shells of failed news sites, it’s hard to imagine a new one whose mission could really set it apart. Nevertheless, when Naftuli Moster, a former ...

(JTA) — The three journalists who comprised the board of a news site founded to provide accountability in Orthodox Jewish communities have resigned en masse after learning that the site’s founder had ...

Decrying the existing Haredi press, a Jewish activist plans to launch a Jewish multimedia publication that he promises will offer more rigorous coverage of the community. Shtetl: Haredi Free Press, ...

Like many synagogues, the Germantown Jewish Centre in Northwest Philadelphia is “a graying population,” said member Dick Goldberg. If you go to a Shabbat morning service, you will see “a lot of gray ...

People misunderstand how Jewish people lived in Eastern European shtetls (small Jewish towns in Europe) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. That is according to Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, a ...

Ready to watch 'Food For Love (A Shtetl That's No Longer There)' on any device? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch the Heddy Honigmann directed movie can be more ...

“From Shtetl to Swing,” which airs tonight as part of the PBS series “Great Performances,” is a short film about the Jewish influence on American popular music and especially its early and continuing ...

We want to draw your attention to a range of material concerning response to FRONTLINE's broadcast of "SHTETL" produced by Marian Marzynski. The debate and literature about "SHTETL" has grown in the ...