Our homes are treasure troves of Jewish objects–each with a story to tell. We asked Jewish Chicagoans to tell us what Judaica they cherish most–and the stories behind them. Here’s what they said… My ...

During World War II, the Nazis murdered more than 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands—some 75 percent of the Dutch Jewish population. Many of those who survived were left with nothing, as the Nazis had ...

A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before Passover outside the doors of men afflicted with fungal infections of the ...

A rusted bolt seems to sit on a shelf next to a cherry-red, toy plastic gas pump. Here a sea shell hangs near a metal ruler. There a worn pair of blue jeans appears to hang on the wall next to faded ...

MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...

In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from ...

The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...