“Michael Steinhardt, one of world Jewry’s most philanthropic benefactors and a co-founder of Birthright Israel, delivered a scathing criticism last week of all that he sees wrong with the Jewish world today and singled out non-Orthodox life.In a television interview last week Thursday with Mark S. Golub of Shalom TV , Steinhardt expressed his deep […]
“And because the Dönme played an outsize role at key moments in modern Turkish history, the myth of their secret Jewish power has itself become powerful. As Baer writes in his introduction, there have recently been bestselling books in Turkey claiming that everyone from the current prime minister, the religious Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to […]
“Then, amid terrible violence unleashed against Jewish Viennese, King Zog messengered to Fritzi’s father the papers that would grant all members of the Weitzman family safe passage to Albania. In all, Fritzi and twelve relatives immigrated to Albania. The day after Kristallnacht, Fritzi and her immediately family left Vienna and arrived in the port city […]
“Yet the Orthodox enclaves are the only Jewish neighborhoods where Republican candidates get any votes to speak of. Even more telling is that on every single cultural issue, the Orthodox oppose the politically correct liberal positions taken by most other American Jews precisely because these positions conflict with Jewish law. To cite just a few […]
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“London’s oldest Ashkenazi synagogue was this week awarded a repair grant of more than £250,000 amid warnings that two of the beams supporting the historic building could collapse if essential work was not carried out. Following the discovery last September that two of the four supports for the centuries-old roof at Sandys Row […]
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Ilan Halimi’s mother wants a public trial of her son’s murderers
“A monument for Jewish children evacuated from Nazi-held lands to Britain on the eve of the Holocaust, is unveiled in Gdansk, Poland, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. About 10,000 Jewish children were saved, thanks to the program known as Kindertransport, but most never saw their parents again. Many left from Gdansk, a city on the Baltic […]
(Photo: People gather at the entrance of an audience room in a french court to yell at relatives of Youssouf Fofana, accused of killing a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi.) The murder of Ilan Halimi was an anti-Semitic crime. That fact, with which virtually everyone in France now concurs, was established at the opening of […]
“KIFL, Iraq (AFP) — Nearly everyone who could read the Hebrew verses carved into the walls of Ezekiel’s tomb left Iraq almost 60 years ago, but their memory is preserved in what is today a revered Muslim shrine. Between 1948 and 1951 nearly all of Iraq’s 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbreak of […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
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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 […]
