By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— There are people among us who believe that the commemorative events on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a formality, in the best case, and ‘an utter hypocrisy’ in the opinions of few who refuse to co-hibit in their mind these annual international commemorations in the end of January…
By Times of Israel— The deputy head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Monday that Tehran’s strategy was to eventually wipe Israel off the “global political map.” Asked by a reporter in Tehran about Israeli threats to strike Iranian forces deployed in Syria, Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami was quoted by Iranian news outlets as…
By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— Nearly three-quarters of a century has passed since the Red Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz death camp on January 27 1945, a date now marked by the annual Holocaust Memorial Day here in Britain and elsewhere. It is held with the intention of ensuring that it never happens again. But…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Thursday, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign-policy committee, Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, expressed anger on Thursday at Russia for not using their advanced S-300 anti-air defense system to protect Iranian military assets in Syria from the Israeli airstrikes that devastated them earlier in the week.…
Please view and share this Free ebook of Poems by the Child Poet and Holocaust Survivor Alla Aizensharf. The artist Natalia Vorontosova commissioned young children to illustrate Alla’s poems. When Alla was approached about the project and asked for permission, she said it was the fulfillment of a dream. Alla passed away only a year ago…
Think on this: “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch… I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They will never be silent day of night. You who call on Yahweh,…
By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— With the annual Holocaust Memorial Day in view, it is worth being reminded not only of how many perished, but also of those who escaped the jaws of Nazism – often miraculously. It is a little known fact that in spite of terrible persecution in Eastern Europe, thousands of Jewish…
DRAMA AMIDST BEAUTY RE-ADDRESSING THE HOLOCAUST TODAY By Inna Rogatchi It was a warm, sunny day in the beautiful part of France just a stone away from Spain, in Nouvelle-Acquitaine. Everything was relaxed around me: people, cars, even shadows. No pressure, no hussle, elegance all around. We were interested in many things around us walking…