admin | March 30, 2024
Last week, the somber news emerged that Major Daniel Perez, previously reported as a hostage, was tragically no longer among the living. Our hearts go out to his parents, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelly.
admin | March 30, 2024
JERUSALEM (VINnews) BDE: Some 1500 people attended the levaya of Rebbetzin Leah Althaus, the wife of the Chabad emissary to Dnieper in Ukraine, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 29 from a rare complication in pregnancy. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Rebbetzin Althaus is the daughter of Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, who has served as Rabbi of Kfar Chabad since the 2015 passing of his father Rabbi Mordechai Ashkenazi. Rebbetzin Althaus ah Rebbetzin Althaus AH and her family She had started her shlichus [Jewish community service] in Dnieper together with her husband Rabbi Zelig who serves as one of the rabbis at the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in Dnieper
admin | March 30, 2024
I may be biased because we have the same first name, but I think Lior Ashkenazi is one of the finest male Israeli actors alive.
admin | March 30, 2024
Helma Goldmark, an Austrian-born Jew, turned 12 in 1938, the year it became evident that she was no longer safe in her homeland. In March, Nazi Germany annexed Austria in an event known as the Anschluss
admin | March 30, 2024
Amsterdam has announced that it will repay 100,000 in recognition of the money the city made from tram tickets to take 48,000 Jewish people on towards Nazi death camps during World War II. Following the release of the film Verdwenen Stad (Lost City) by Emmy-winning film director Willy Lindwer, investigating the role of the city tram service in collaborating with the Nazis, the city has announced a repayment and memorial boards at major stations. The question was never answered of how is it possible to get 80,000 people out of a city like Amsterdam, in a little over a year, Lindwer told Dutch News
admin | March 30, 2024
(JTA) Jewish actress and writer Lena Dunham is the latest Hollywood star to discover that her family has ties to the Holocaust on the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Dunham, the sometimes controversial comedian who was born to a Protestant father and a Jewish mother, has previously described herself as very culturally Jewish, and she stars in a forthcoming film, Treasure, that features a family grappling with its Holocaust history.
admin | March 30, 2024
Joey King steps back in time in We Were the Lucky Ones, portraying a Jewish woman whose family seeks refuge during the Holocaust. King, 24, identifies as Jewish but tells PEOPLE in this weeks issue that she doesnt consider herself a religious person. I don't know exactly what I believe in, she explains.
admin | March 30, 2024
Its always daunting to press play on a TV show, movie, or documentary about the Holocaust. As necessary and important as these stories are, theyre also agonizing. And Hulus new limited series We Were the Lucky Ones about a Polish family forced to scatter across multiple continents during World War II is a tough watch
admin | March 30, 2024
(March 25, 2024 / JNS) Master tailor Martin Greenfield gained a national reputation over the generations with his brand of fitted suits and mens clothing worn by U.S. presidents and Hollywood celebrities alike.
admin | March 21, 2024
SPEAKING OUT, AND EATING: Some 100 British fashion figures including Zandra Rhodes, David Sassoon, Solange Azagury-Partridge, Suzy Menkes, Caroline Burstein and Caroline Rush gathered at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London on Saturday morning for a religious and social event hosted by Fashion & Beauty Against Antisemitism. Cohosts Deborah Lyons and Mandi Lennard called it a special fashion kiddush, and after a morning of prayers, guests spilled into the synagogues reception hall to graze on traditional foods, including honey cake, cholent and latkes, fish balls and mini-bagels with chopped herring.
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