B’nai B’rith International

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...

In January 2020 the Jewish community came together in New York City to rally against anti-Semitism. The rally was in response to a series of attacks against Jews in December 2019 that included two...