“The former synagogue of a renowned late Orthodox rabbi Moshe Feinstein is slated for destruction and the local government plans to build a supermarket at the site. The two-story wooden synagogue in Luban was built at the end of the 19th century and became the center of spiritual life for the town’s Jews. “DayLife.com
“Moshe Feinstein, […]
“Under a special settlement agreement, Lehman Schlissel will pay 200,000 euros toward a kashrus inspection fund for products imported to Israel. The settlement follows a class-action suit against the company for kashrus fraud. In the claim, filed at the Tel Aviv District Court, the plaintiff charged that the candy importer printed on its wrapper — […]
“The Yad L’Achim organization calls on Pope Benedict XVI, as he prepares to visit the Holy Land, to act to reveal the “hidden Jewish children” of the Holocaust. It is estimated that thousands of Jewish children were left with Christian monasteries or families by their Jewish parents during the Holocaust, in the hope that they […]
(IsraelNN.com) by Avraham Zuroff “Commanders at an unidentified IDF base did not allow unshaven soldiers to go home during the Passover holiday, according to a report broadcast on Voice of Israel government radio.The reason was allegedly related to tightening of a regulation against soldiers growing beards. An updated IDF directive dated March 2009 now forbids […]
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Jewish refugee from Tripoli Victor Franco and his daughter waiting at gate for arrival of his pregnant wife, who was transported to Fort Ontario by hospital car.
“Oswego was home to almost 1,000 Jewish refugees during World War II. Fort Ontario was the only attempt by the United States to shelter Jewish refugees during […]
Romi Cohn “The Youngest Partisan”@RAJE
Chapter from “The Youngest Partisan “.ArtScroll.com
“Urologists, on hand during the procedure, have been known to film Rabbi Cohn to record his technique for teaching purposes. In two encounters with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, Rabbi Cohn received the blessing that “Abraham, our forefather, stands at your right hand.” […]
Q Why are Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations enshrined on the calendar of some Jews but ignored or marginalized by others?
“As Rabbi Jacob Schacter (Tradition 41:2) and Prof. Arye Edrei have documented, the religious community has also struggled with commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day and more generally, memorializing the Holocaust. One emotionally charged question, regarding the appropriate […]
” t is with sadness that we report the passing of Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner of Yerushalayim, at the ripe old age of 98. Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner passed away Monday morning. He established the Yad Herzog Institute which was responsible for creating the Talmudic Encyclopedia and the Complete Jerusalem Talmud. Rabbi Hutner merited to have the […]
” In the Ukrainian town of Berdichev, Jewish women were forced to swim across a wide river until they drowned. In Telsiai, Lithuania, children were thrown alive into pits filled with their murdered parents. In Liozno, Belarus, Jews were herded into a locked barn where many froze to death.” more@NYTimes.com
” It has been learned that Jerusalem-based Angel’s Bakery, the nation’s largest bakery providing over 30% of the nation’s bread, after Pesach sold breads that were baked, frozen, and sold to a non-Jews, and defrosted and sold after Pesach.
The news of the practice elicited the ire of many who are stringent regarding their practice of […]
“Based on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role.” more@GoogleBooks
