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 […]
Interview with Kike Like Me director Jamie Kastner
Jamie Kastner’s film Kike Like Me explores Jewish identity in the 21st Century - and pulls very few punches in the process. Get a flavour of the film from the man himself.
BBC Four: Jamie, the film forces the audience to confront its own feelings about Jewish people, […]
“The Unheeded Crythe gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred. “
Dr. Kasztner’s later, and much more famous, negotiation with the Nazis was actually a belated negotiation attempt to save Jews. Actually, HaRav Weissmandl negotiated with the Germans as early as 1942 and managed to […]
“I’m not surprised that even in these days there are discoveries such as these, it underscores the enormous scope of the plans of annihilation of the Nazis and their collaborators in eastern Europe,” he said. “This is an area that Jews were not deported from to concentration camps but rather murdered on the spot.”news.yahoo.com
