admin | April 14, 2020
On Google's image search (images.google.com), benign search terms relating to Jews or Yiddish phrases yield alarmingly hateful and inciting results.
admin | April 14, 2020
Aron Bielski is the youngest and last living member of the Bielski brigade, which he founded along with three of his brothers. Their activities have become widely known as one of the largest partisan groups that rescued Jews during the Holocaust. He was born on July 21, 1927, into the family of Davidand Beila Bielski, who had 10 sons and two daughters, in what is today Belarus.
admin | April 14, 2020
At the entrance to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Hall of Remembrance stands a quote from Gen. Dwight D.
admin | April 14, 2020
Morocco could be the next Arab state to establish formal diplomatic relations with Israel, becoming the third to do so after Egypt and Jordan. The move could have far-reaching implications for Israel, for Morocco, and for the Trump administration. A few days after the Trump administration announced the so-called Deal of the Century, a story broke that Israel was lobbying the Trump administration to officially endorse Moroccos claims to sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory in exchange for Morocco normalizing ties with Israel
admin | April 14, 2020
The Seder was different for everybody this year. Gatherings were smaller, some were live-streamed, others had empty seats where family members should be sitting
admin | April 14, 2020
Herman Schafer brought his bride, Rosa Goldsmith, to their home in Mount Airy in 1888, they were the only Jewish couple they knew of in the county. The nearest Jewish synagogue was in Statesville so Rosa instructed her sons and, eventually, other Jewish children and a few Christian children in the tenets of the faith. The Schafer boys are seen in this 1910 photo
admin | April 14, 2020
The Passover Hagada from the Guenzburg collection of ancient Hebrew manuscripts and books is pictured at the Russian State Library in Moscow, Russia November 7, 2017. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters) A morbid joke has circulated here in Israel, where the government has imposed a strict lockdown for Passover evening, barring all vehicular traffic and prohibiting pedestrians from straying more than one hundred meters from their homes: Like our ancient forebears, contemporary Israelites hunker down in our homes tonight, hoping the plague will indeed pass over us.
admin | April 14, 2020
It was a lovely spring day when Corporal Ian Forsyth arrived at a place of darkness and death. The 21-year-old wireless operator with the 15th/19th Kings Royal Hussars was among the first British troops to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany 75 years ago this week. We werent expecting to see anything we didnt know there was such a place.
admin | April 14, 2020
A synagogue in Huntsville, Alabama was vandalized on the first night of Passover with neo-Nazi graffiti. Among the graffiti spray painted sometime over Wednesday night on the Etz Chayim Synagogue, a Conservative congregation of about 60 families in South Huntsville, were F Kikes, Gas Em All, White Power, Jew Scum, and Holohoax.
admin | April 14, 2020
With synagogues shuttered indefinitely, Jewish life is evolving to conform with the new home-based reality. When possible, technology is taking a more prominent role, facilitating Torah study, fellowship and more
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