by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Independence Day begins Wednesday night and continues on Thursday. With the holiness of the holiday under attack from right and left - the hareidi-religious public, the secular public, and even parts of the Disengagement-stricken religious-Zionist public - celebrants of the day wish to emphasize its basic principles. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed […]

By: Zechariah Schwarzberg Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Warsaw Ghetto: a name, a phrase, familiar to most people today only as a matter of history. Important history, yes, but dry and impersonal just the same. Because even the most […]

By:Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Note: This essay is based on “Crypto-Jews in Mexico during the Sixteenth Century” by Arnold Wiznitzer, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, 51, 1962 ( www.ajhs.org/reference/adaje.cfm). Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes are from the Wiznitzer article. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Catholic Church did its utmost to root out any […]

Cecil Bloom Almost seventy years after his death, the stormy petrel of Zionism and one of the most flamboyant personalities in modern Jewish history remains a controversial figure on which Jewish historians take up remarkably opposing positions. His followers worshipped him and regarded him as a prophet commanded by God to go forth and lead his […]

By Dalia Karpel With its lovely stone buildings, red-tiled roofs, old pine trees and picturesque alleyways, Jerusalem’s German Colony is an enchanting area. But in the 1930s, a branch of the Nazi Party operated openly in this pastoral neighborhood, established by the Templers, who belonged to a messianic religious cult that came to the Holy Land […]

by Gavriel Horan http://richards-creations.net/Pages/8/_Irena-s_Children.html Irena Sendler Irena Sendler is a 97-year-old Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. She takes the crying baby into her arms, turns her back on the hysterical mother, and walks off […]

By:Richard McBee Wednesday, February 6, 2008 One Family - Photographs of Vardi Kahana Selected Images: Columbia/Barnard Hillel The Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life 606 West 115th Street, (B’way) Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 212-854-5111 January 22-February 29, 2008 Tel Aviv Museum Catalogue available at Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, #214; 212-627-2552 Kahana’s work at www.vardikahana.com The Holocaust was “Ground Zero of the Greenwald-Kahana family.” In […]

(IsraelNN.com) Berta Lovinger is no ordinary olah hadasha [new immigrant to Israel]. At the ripe old age of 95, she was the oldest Jew to come home to Israel on Thursday’s Nefesh B’Nefesh flight of new immigrants.

The Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) organization eases the obstacles facing North American Jews wishing to make aliyah (move to […]