“The Ministry of Transportation will be asked to appeal a recent decision by the German authorities not to allow Lufthansa flights to Israel to leave from a newly-built terminal, and have them take off from an old terminal instead. Lufthansa recently inaugurated a new private terminal at Munich’s airport. A spokesman for the German airline […]
photo: “A Jewish cemetery in Manama, Bahrain’s capital. King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has taken unprecedented steps for an Arab leader to demonstrate support for the nation’s Jewish population.”
In a Landscape of Tension, Bahrain Embraces Its Jews. All 36 of Them.
“In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for […]
“A list compiled by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been discovered by a researcher at a library in Australia. Schindler’s list helped hundreds of Jewish workers escape death in the Holocaust during World War II. It was found in research notes which belonged to the Australian author of Schindler’s Ark - the […]
“HOUSE OF LIFE tells the story of The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, the site of layer upon layer of buried members of the once-vibrant Jewish community. Almost a million people from all over the world now visit the cemetery each year, and HOUSE OF LIFE chronicles its history, which is rich in lore, mysticism, […]
” November 27, 2008 shows a visitor walking outside the old walls of the ancient city of Babylon, some 100 kms south of Baghdad. The first official Western tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion six years ago is visiting historic and religious sites, the Tourism Ministry announced on March 19, 2009.” DayLife.com
“What kind of a Jew are you? Can you sing Lecha Dodi? And do you fast on Yom Kippur? These are just some of the questions Israeli security personnel at the country’s airports and border crossings ask tourists whose names, passports or replies to other queries indicate they may be Jewish. A Jerusalem-based US journalist […]
“Gogol, now best known for his later works, like “Dead Souls,” “The Overcoat” and “The Inspector General,” first became famous for his tales of provincial Ukraine, which he peopled with an amalgam of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Poles and Gypsies. In his first successful story, “The Sorochintsy Fair” (1830), we marvel at how “a gypsy and […]
“Isaac Liberman, a senior mashgiach, removes matzos that do not meet certain quality standards at the Manischewitz Matzo baking Plant in Newark. The Secaucus-based Manischewitz Company invited reporters and photographers to witness its first schmura matzo run at its new matzo baking plant in Newark. The Jersey Journal’s Reena Rose Sibayan was there to document […]
Yemeni Jewish boys read the Torah at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida February 20, 2009. Ten Jews from Raida, nine of them members of the same family, landed in Israel on Thursday after fleeing from Yemen. DayLife.com
PARIS (CNN)– France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II, the country’s highest court ruled Monday.
” France’s role in the deportation of its Jews was a taboo subject for decades after the war. The trial of Maurice Papon, a civil servant in the collaborationist Vichy government, for […]
