There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

AIG may be the most unpopular bailout ever. With Wall Street. With Main Street. With the people. Probably even with the President. Yet it is absolutely essential. Here is why. AIG created a ton of what I call Confederate Money. They insured crap that was then called gold. When the gold turned back i...

Vilnius, Lithuania - The Jewish community in Vilna refuses to allow the local Chabad rabbi to enter the main shul, even though the rabbi has to say Kaddish and has no other minyan where he can say it. Tense, acrid relations have existed between the Jewish community and Rabbi Krinsky since 2004, when...

So my lietuviams.com interview from last year made me eligible to be selected as their person of the year. To vote for me, tick off some stars Netflix-style at this link. To see all the nominees, follow this link. (And I indicate my friends here.)...

Slovenia Snow shoe Don your thickest old Christmas socks, strap on a pair of snowshoes and get ready to explore the landscape around iconic Lake Bled, a section of the Julian Alps with some of Europe's loveliest terrain. From the highest point at Mount Triglav, limestone peaks zigzag outwards. Exodu...

JewishGen has added 120,000 new records, in various databases. Explore these databases at the links indicated below. JewishGen Holocaust Database additions - 4,000 Hidden Children in France (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants - OSE); Persons transferred from Rhodes to Ferramonti Di Tarsia Internment Camp...

HOFFMAN'S NOTE: For the word "partisan" in the following news report, substitute Hezbollah or Hamas. If this ex-partisan fighter, Fania Branstovsky, is innocent, as she claims, then so too are members of Hezbollah and Hamas ("heroes of the anti-Zionist resistance"). --- Holocaust survivors facing wa...

An interesting article from the always thoughtful Wilhelm Connander's blog here. We're an intellectual lot in our project, so our conversation on the trip to Batumi turned to Greek myths, as a variation from the possibility of jokes about a Greek, a Georgian and a Brit and other less intellectual ma...

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Filed under: Trends, Etc. Click above for an extensive photo gallery of the work in progress... Polyurethane, the wonder-polymer used in everything from appliances and textiles to electronics and footwear, is apparently the car building material-of-choice for this "sculptor" in Lithuania. You'd reco...