“A likeness in wax of Jewish teenager Anne Frank gets some media attention as it was inaugurated at Berlin’s Madame Tussaud’s wax museum on December 19, 2008. The wax figure, originally produced for the Amsterdam Tussaud’s in 1981, will be on display in the German capital for a two-month period. ” photo: DayLife.com
The New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind will take over a Berlin flower market to extend the Jewish Museum, his first major building, creating new space for a library, archives and education projects. The Jewish Museum, the German government and the state of Berlin today agreed on the financing of the […]
“Between 1941 and 1945, some 550 Jews arrived in Palestine under similar circumstances, having been trapped in occupied Europe and then released as part of the same deal, for Germans detained in Palestine. Some of them have remained in touch with each other to this day. The German women and children who were deported from […]
” Have you ever fretted over which wine to serve your Jewish friends without having to resort to an untested Israeli import? Worry no more, there are more and more kosher wines available and even the well-known Mouton Cadet Bordeaux wines are available with a kosher label. And religious Jews need not scratch their heads […]
“It is customary to recite Alenu at the end of each of the three daily prayer services - Shaharit, Minha and Arbit. This custom is recorded already in the Tur (Orah Haim 133). Some scholars attribute this hymn to Yehoshua Bin Nun, who composed it after the miraculous battle against the city of Yericho. This […]
“When a container holding swine flu exploded on a Swiss train on Monday, it could have led to a nightmare scenario. Luckily the virus was not the mutated swine flu that has killed around 150 people in Mexico and that has already spread to parts of Europe. It has all the hallmarks of […]
“On Friday nights, we smoked potent Lebanese dope in our huts and drank shabbat wine taken from the dining hall. On the four evenings a week when the kibbutz bar opened its doors, we drank gallons of beer and danced wildly to punk and ska records, a revelation to kibbutzniks brought up on Leonard Cohen. […]
“Just days after Hugo Chávez gave President Barack Obama a copy of “Open Veins of Latin America” in Trinidad last week, the English-language version of the book shot to the No. 2 slot on Amazon.com. Americans seemed to be curious about Mr. Chávez’s reading tastes. But in Latin America, “Open Veins” is a well-known rant […]
“The folklore that accompanies Israel’s national Memorial and Independence Days, includes the perpetual question: What’s the ultra-Orthodox’s opinion? Will they stand for the moment of silence? Do they respect the memory of the fallen? Do they celebrate Independence Day? Do they rejoice in it? The ritual question, which finds its expression through the images of […]
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“Every year we hear the same discussions why many Haredim in the ultra - orthodox neighbourhood of Mea Shearim and other neighbourhoods of Jerusalem ignore the Independence Day. For those Haredim it is just another ordinary week day. Especially Chabad, Satmar and the Neturei Karta see the day as “The Day of the Bones” and […]
“Friendships like these had a cost in the segregated South. One night in 1942, Prof. Rasmussen and her husband were arrested for dining with an African-American in a blacks-only cafe.Two jail receipts for $28 each from that night, along with Mrs. Madison’s bracelet and dozens of other artifacts, photographs, documents, and paintings are part of […]
“One of the pillars of chasidic thought is the idea that people can comprehend God better through their actions - specifically, by performing mitzvos (sacred deeds) - than by meditation. This concept is the basis for the beliefs and observances of Chasidism, founded by the Ba’al Shem Tov in the eighteenth century. Rabbi Noson Gurary […]
