WINTER 2020

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COVER STORY

Secret Shabes: How the “Sabbath Delight” Hid an Astonishing Archive

By Beryl Lieff Benderly

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FEATURES

Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe’s Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries

By Linda Topping Streitfeld

Polish Pogroms and American Apologies

By Kenneth D. Ackerman

Untying the Knot: The Burden of a Get in Orthodox Marriage

By Michele Chabin

Jacob Sonderling:
A Musical Visionary, From Hamburg to LA

By Cheryl Kempler

PUBLISHED SINCE 1886

WINTER 2020

VOL. 136, No. 1

Editor's Note

By Eugene L. Meyer

From the President

By Charles O. Kaufman

From the CEO

By Daniel S. Mariaschin

More Stories

•  Congratulations to…us!
•  Congratulations to Ha'aretz correspondent and B'nai B'rith Magazine contributor Dina Kraft
•  The first Jew on faculty at Yale University, German immigrant Sigismund Waterman
•  In this issue: B’nai B’rith’s new online resources

B'NAI B'RITH IMPACT

In Your Community and Around the Globe

B’nai B’rith Connect:
Busier Than Ever

Achim/Gate City Lodge Honors Essay Contest Winners Virtually

Extra, Extra, Read All About It (or Watch, or Listen)

B’nai B’rith’s Voice in the European Parliament: The Working Group Against Anti-Semitism

The Bershad Scholarship Fund Changes Lives of  Winners

B’nai B’rith’s None Shall Be Afraid, Initiative to Fight anti-Semitism

The American Jewish International Relations Institute now under B’nai B’rith International umbrella

B’nai B’rith National Healthcare Award Focuses on the Industry in Unprecedented Times

COLUMNS

FROM THE VAULT

To Pray in Verdun in a
War-Torn World

ABOUT SENIORS

Facing the Pandemic: B’nai B’rith Housing, Not Just Bricks and Mortar