VIENNA – With the holiday season approaching, many families will be getting out Christmas decorations and putting up Christmas trees, whether artificial or live. While there are a number of local ...

JTA — For more than six decades, Simon Panzer has come to swim meets across Austria wearing a Star of David on his chest. The symbol represents two aspects of Panzer’s identity: his Judaism, and his ...

In 1909 followers of Zionist Max Nordau founded Austria’s first Jewish sport club, Hakoah Vienna. On a tour in 1921, Hakoah became the first continental club to defeat an English team on their home ...

The Hakoah athletic club was founded by Viennese Jews in 1909 in reaction to a wave of antisemitism that kept Jews off of most regular sports teams. Hakoah grew to become one of the world’s largest ...

Representatives of the city of Vienna, Wash and Go and the Parkersburg Woman’s Club open the first Free Little Library in a laundromat in West Virginia, part of the nationwide Laundromat Library ...

The Optimist Club of Greater Vienna awarded $600 to three local high school students at its Feb. 15 dinner meeting. The students were winners of the annual Optimists International essay contest, "How ...