The back story of how a Torah got from the fetid barracks of Auschwitz to the ark of the Central Synagogue at Lexington Avenue and 55th Street is one the pastor of the Lutheran church down the street sums up as simply “miraculous.”It is the story of a sexton in the synagogue in the Polish […]
“Constantine’s Sword,” a film by Oren Jacoby, has its theatrical premier in New York on the day of the pope’s visit to the Synagogue.* The coincidence has no significance, although, in my mind, it raises these questions. In the film, Oren Jacoby and I show that the dark legacy of Christian antisemitism began to be […]
In attack-conscious Israel, even a crematorium needs protection
“After a short hiatus, Aley Shalechet has rebuilt its facilities and returned to business, albeit with a beefed up security system that was lacking before.”We have protection, much more than we ever did before,” says Alon Nativ founder and general manager of Aley Shalechet. ” 06.02.08 […]
Top Israeli film director (”Beaufort,” “Campfire”) Joseph Cedar’s next film will tell the story of Veit Harlan, the leading German director who worked on behalf of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. As reported over the weekend on the Cinemascope blog, Cedar received the offer to direct the film from Rainer Grupe, a London producer of […]
Munich is to hold a carnival parade on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jewish groups have protested what they feel is a lack of sensitivity, but organizers insist they didn’t know the date’s significance and refuse to postpone the festivities. Spiegel.de
photo:”A group of rabbis places stones on top of the memorial monument in Jedwabne.”
By Siobhán Dowling in Berlin
Prosecutors in Poland are considering charging the US historian Jan Tomasz Gross with slandering the Polish nation following the publication of his book on anti-Semitism in the country after World War II. The book has provoked a storm […]
Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, Mr. Shevach Weiss, who accompanied former president of Poland, Lech Walesa in his tour of Kfar Chabad, described in a former COL update, was interviewed on a Galei Tzahal radio program and expressed his impressions of this visit. “It was moving to tears to watch the site of this […]
Knesset decrees that student delegations to concentration camps will only eat kosher food.
“One enraged mother said Tuesday: “This is an outrage. If the state decided on kosher meals, let them fund them.” Yet another parent explained that her son’s school had informed her that the cost of the Poland mission had gone up from $1,100 […]
By Matt Mabe Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BRIGHTON BEACH — The Hope of Israel Congregation occupies the second floor of a swanky new building in Brighton Beach. Looming above a glitzy Russian produce market the angled façade of the four-story citadel straddles an obtuse corner of the neighborhood’s busiest intersection. A banner hugging its wall […]
“The Unheeded Crythe gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred. ”
6 Kislev - R’ Michoel Ber Weissmandel (1957), Rosh Yeshiva of Nitra Yeshiva, renowned for his mesiras nefesh during the Holocaust, risking his own life to save Jews. His wife and children were murdered […]
The Previous Klausenberger Rebbe Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halbertsam ZT”L, survived the Holocaust and built the Laniado Hospital in Netanya, Israel. Here, in his own words, is the unedited version giving the reasons he chose to build a hospital.
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photo NYT: An Intimate Israeli Home
“The Zismans were certainly not strangers to the idea of multiple homes. After raising their children in Brooklyn, they built a home in the Long Island community of Cedarhurst near all three of their daughters. They fly down to Florida for long weekends. There also is a country house in […]
