Daily Archives: April 21, 2020
Mira Rosenblatt: A story of leadership, resilience and survival
Mira Rosenblatt will never forget Aug. 12, 1942. On that day, the teenager was among the 30,000 Jews living in the Sosnowiec Ghetto in Poland who were rounded up by the Nazis and herded...
Passover and Yom Hashoah: The ethical imperative of remembrance
No sooner have we finished Passover and Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is upon us.
The juxtaposition is startling. Passover celebrates liberation—the passage from slavery onto freedom, from Egypt to the Promised Land.
And the Holocaust...
Empathy and Survival in a Time of Plague
“The earth from which the first man was made was gathered in all the four corners of the world.” –The Talmud
Amid growing horrors of the Coronavirus, it is easy to forget a very basic...
New York to offer kosher food at select sites as virus lingers throughout city
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized on Monday the serving of kosher food at 10 food-distribution sites in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., several hours after the Metropolis Council’s Jewish Caucus issued a...
Judge rules Monsey machete-attack suspect deemed unfit for federal trial
The suspect accused of the Dec. 28 machete attack at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., injuring five of the 100 or so celebrants at a Hanukkah candle-lighting party...
ADL: Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less safe now than a decade ago
Nearly two-thirds of American Jews believe that they are less safe today than a decade ago, according to a new survey by the Anti-Defamation League on Jewish encounters with anti-Semitism in the United States.
The...
Neo-Nazis crash Holocaust survivor’s Zoom testimony
Neo-Nazis on Monday crashed an online Holocaust Remembrance Day event hosted by the Israeli embassy in Germany.
The embassy hosted survivor Zvi Herschel, who told his story to the public through the Zoom meeting application,...
Trump to ‘temporarily suspend immigration’ due to pandemic
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would sign an executive order temporarily suspending immigration to the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy,...
Saudi columnist: A real bid for peace requires acknowledging the tragedy of the Holocaust
Saudi author and journalist Abdullah Bin Bakheet wrote in the kingdom’s Al-Riyadh daily in January that any true bid for peace with Israel requires transcending politics and acknowledging that the Holocaust was a “tragedy” and an...
Israel’s coronavirus death toll rises to 181, total number of cases at 13,883
Israel’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 181 on Tuesday, after four more people succumbed to the disease overnight Monday and on Tuesday morning.
Among the four fatalities was Aharon Turchin, a 48-year-old father of 14...