B’nai B’rith International

“Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word – which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly – it would be this: At Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today l would be...

This fall examples of fiction and theater inspired by the personal histories of their Jewish creators will be in the news. American audiences are eagerly awaiting the October Broadway opening of...

The lodges and units of B’nai B’rith chose their official identity from many sources.  Their name often included a location identifying a community where it was established.  Sometimes they were...

When I began my career almost 50 years ago, I emphasized in my speeches that one day there would be no Holocaust survivors to say, “I was there,” or to show their concentration camp tattoos, or to...

Daniel Libeskind. Credit: commons.wikimedia.org When Daniel Libeskind speaks, he invites his audience to enter a world in which his unique thought process has the power to alter their perception. The...

I’ve just delivered this message to a group of Jewish communal representatives focused on high-level international interreligious dialogue. This past Shabbat’s Torah reading has special resonance for...

Although the figure of Moses appears in a frieze at the Supreme Court and at the House of House of Representatives along with Moses Maimonides, Oscar Straus is still the only Jewish person whose...

Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009) New York, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy © Film Documents, LLC, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany and The Photographers’ Gallery, London.Sporting...