By Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, Aish— Rosh Hashanah, 1944: A group of ragged Jewish prisoners assembled for yet another exhausting work detail. All around, Jews were starved, tortured and murdered. The slightest expression of Jewish faith was strictly forbidden, grounds for execution by Nazi guards. Yet on that Rosh Hashanah, a group of courageous Jews…
By Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute— How often have we seen commentary concerning the situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, made with intensity even passion which purport to tell readers the “facts” about Israel? They often narrate falsehoods that might put to shame a string of fraudsters, conmen and conspiracy theorists. It seems, at…
By Jpost— More than 10,000 people from 52 countries and regions around the world , including Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, South Africa, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, and Poland are currently marching through the streets of Poland. The marchers are walking a three-kilometer path from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— Return from the Abyss Is not the hypothesis on ‘a return from an abyss‘ an oxymoron? But in a still hard to comprehend segment of modern history, this very process has become a reality from the summer of 1945 onward for a massive amount of people. For those several…
By Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines—- During a conference on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence warned European and Middle Eastern leaders of the ‘new Holocaust’ the Iranian regime is plotting. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday – during the 40thanniversary of the Islamic Revolution – that he would ‘raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the…
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…
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…
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…
By Mordechai Ben-Dat, Canadian Jewish News— Parallel lines never meet – unless a lodestone of overwhelming force pulls them inexorably toward each other. At that pivotal point of attraction, of course, the two lines cease to be parallel. As we ultimately see, when they converge, they become integral components in a reconfigured aesthetic of movement…
MEMORY ON JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE TO BE REVIVED IN LITHUANIA By Dr Inna Rogatchi © People on the Field The landscape in the Central and Northern Lithuania is practically endlessly serene. Especially on a hot sunny day of a premature summer. The idyll of our journey has been suddenly interrupted by a short…