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The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
A fantastic video has been circulating the air waves. It is a must-watch clip! A young “good trouble” maker walked around New York City holding a clipboard “petition” to help Hamas free Palestine. The unsuspecting passers-by gasp in excitement at the opportunity to lend their ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
1967 It was late May 1967. It was Mum’s first trip to Israel, and the very first trip to Israel for anyone in the family. She had gone to attend a cousin’s wedding. A few days thereafter, the Chatan (bridegroom) was mobilized. Two days later ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
There are different ways of professing faith. All involve sacrifice. What seem to be the smallest gestures, sometimes resonate the most. We Jews will survive because we have to. My paternal Grandmother, Dora Rummel, survived. Dora was born in Janjelgava, Latvia. She left Latvia before ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
Like everyone who loves Israel, whether you are privileged to live here or not, the plight of our people is constantly in the front of our minds – for some of us, it’s all we can think about. I was just having a conversation with ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
I had just walked into Shul on Simchat Torah morning and was immediately enveloped in numbers. One hundred. Two Hundred. Hundreds. Several Hundred. Now, not even a month later, though we have more clarity on these figures, sadly, they keep climbing. Almost a thousand. Over ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
My beloved Bonpapa, On 1st November 1942, 81 years ago today, you had the clear-sightedness and the courage to jump out of a train that was taking you from Breendonk (Belgium) to Auschwitz (Poland). You have always inspired me and until you passed away, you ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
The past few weeks have flipped everyone’s life around. For those of us living in Israel, this is true many fold. Few of us expected Hamas and its various clones to leave us and our country alone, let alone at peace. But none of us ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
In 1843, Bruno Bauer introduced a term that had been implicit for decades, perhaps even spanning all of human history. This term emerged from his book, The Jewish Question. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, Jews have been exiled throughout the world ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
Shortly after the October 7th attack, I published three succinct talking points that I believed every major Jewish organization should have been pumping out to its constituents. I called it, Sing from the Same Hymnal. Making sure we are in concert with our messaging is ..read more
The Times of Israel » Holocaust
6M ago
Witold Pilecki is one of the bravest people I’ve ever written about in these blogs. He was a Polish patriot and a Catholic who volunteered to be arrested and sent to Auschwitz, to learn firsthand of the horrors taking place there so the entire world ..read more