admin | April 20, 2024
By Robert Zaller The island of Zakynthos, the next to southernmost of the Seven Islands archipelago in the Ionian Sea, is among the most beautiful and cultured in all of Greece.
admin | April 11, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) Ive known Hanna Slome for my entire life: She and her husband Henry Slome were close friends of my parents. I knew that in the 1930s, Henry fled Nazi Germany and Hanna had somehow gotten out of Czechoslovakia, but I didnt know the details of her escape
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) Jews and non-Jews in Germany are rallying to the side of the Jewish community in Oldenburg after an attempted arson attack on its synagogue on Friday. Hundreds of local residents held a solidarity demonstration on Sunday for the Jewish community
admin | April 11, 2024
Muswell Hill Synagogue has welcomed the family of their adopted hostage, Michel Nisenbaum. The 59-year-old Brazilian-born Israeli, who was taken captive by Hamas terrorists,was adopted by the shul in February as part of the adopt-a-hostagescheme launched by the Board of Deputies. The community has been sayingprayers for the missing grandfather ever since.
admin | April 11, 2024
Antisemitic attacks in Germany and elsewhere have surged since the start of the Israel Hamas war on 7 October. An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon
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
VINNEWS- Tiberias, Israel Every so often there is good news that comes out of the Israeli Court System. On Shushan Purim, another complete victory for the Holy Torah against former mayor of Tiberias, Ron Kobi.
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
President Carol Folt presented Holocaust survivors and leaders of the Shoah Foundation The Institute for Visual History and Education with the University Medallion, the fourth time USC has awarded this recognition in its history. The ceremony recognized the Shoah Foundations 30th anniversary and honored the over 30 Holocaust survivors in attendance
admin | March 21, 2024
Following the postponement of a controversial coalition bill reducing local governments influence over the appointment of municipal rabbis, former Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana (National Unity) urges cities without a rabbi to hurry up and appoint one while they still retain control over the process. You still have the opportunity to appoint a rabbi under the existing regulations who is suitable for your city, but if you delay, it is very possible that the political alliance between [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and the ultra-Orthodox parties will bring back the law they tried to pass today, and then they will decide for you who will be your rabbi, over your heads, Kahana says in a video message to the heads of nearly 40 local authorities posted social media.
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