Monthly Archives: April 2020
Relief in Rishon Letzion as fears of mass casualties in crane collapse prove baseless
Emergency services in Rishon Letzion scrambled on Wednesday morning following reports that multiple people had been trapped beneath the wreckage of a collapsed construction crane, however, paramedics and EMTs from Magen David Adom and...
Israeli COVID-19 death toll rises to 187 as infection rate falls
An additional three Israelis succumbed to COVID-19 overnight on Tuesday, bringing the national death toll from the coronavirus pandemic to 187, Israel’s Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The ministry also reported a spike in the...
Lapid: Blue and White perpetrated ‘greatest deception in Israeli history’
Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid on Tuesday blasted his former political partner Blue and White leader Benny Gantz for agreeing to a power-sharing agreement with incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing Gantz...
Verter fun der Vokh: צײַטפֿאַרברענג – Spending time at home
Spending time at home
צײַטפֿאַרברענג
make an art project: מאַכן אַ קו֜נסטפּראָיע֜קט
browse social media/the internet: בלע֜טערן די סאָציאַ֜לע מע֜דיע/די אי֜נטערנעץ
clean the house: אוי֜פֿראַמען ‹צו֜ראַמען/צו֜ראָמען/צו֜
וימען› דאָס הויז
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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...