admin | March 30, 2024
Rabbi Sheldon Rudoff Click herefor a PDF version of this edition of Heres My Story, or visit theMy Encounter Blog. The story I am about to tell happened in the early 1950s, not long after the Rebbe took over the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch. At the time, I was in high school and living in Crown Heights on Carroll Street, which is around the corner from President Street where the Rebbe lived.
admin | March 30, 2024
As Sam Cooke first sang in 1964, A change is gonna come. Change indeed is approaching for the two Reform communities Rodef Shalom Congregation and Temple Sinai in Pittsburghs eastern neighborhoods. Rabbi Sharyn Henry announced plans earlier this month to retire on June 30, 2025, after 26 years of service at Rodef Shalom.
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
It was Passover 1938, and the Kurc family gathered around the Seder table in Radom, Poland, to celebrate. By the next year, with the onset of World War II, the family found itself scattered far and wide, trying desperately to survive the Holocaust with almost no knowledge of the fate of their loved ones. The Kurc familys story is at the center of We Were the Lucky Ones, a new eight-part Hulu miniseries that covers close to a decade of their harrowing journeys.
admin | March 30, 2024
Mild spoilers for We Were the Lucky Ones ahead.
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
Questions around Jewish life in Germany, the Holocaust and Berlin's relationship withIsraelwill soon form part of Germany's naturalisation test, the country's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday. "Antisemitism, racism and other forms of contempt for humankind preclude naturalisation.
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
Everything you will hear today is true the events and the stories. Thats how Andie Weiner, the 2024 Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar, prefaced her presentation at the kick off of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week at Northeastern University. The presentation, also her capstone project, was a solo biographical performance that told the story of how her grandfather, Jack or Joop Groothuis, escaped the Netherlands as it was under Nazi occupation and fled to the United States
admin | March 30, 2024
THETFORD Two Upper Valley congregations are joining together to host an event that encourages people of different religions to discuss faith and the Holocaust. Faith Among the Ashes: Lessons From Holocaust Survivors is scheduled to take place Sunday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m
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