Daily Archives: January 27, 2022
How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and The Problems They Have Caused Them –...
Prof. Weiser discusses (in English) the origin of Ashkenazic Jewish names and focuses on the bureaucratic issues historically associated with keeping track of and reconciling Jewish naming practices. The first of a three-part Winter...
More than 15,000 Holocaust survivors passed away last year
Over the past year, 15,324 Holocaust survivors died in Israel, according to data published on Wednesday by the country’s Social Equality Ministry.
According to the report, published by the ministry’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority on...
‘Shema Yisrael’ pendants found in archaeological digs at Sobibor death camp
Three pendants inscribed with the “Shema Yisrael” prayer and depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments have been discovered in archaeological excavations in the Sobibor extermination camp over the past decade, the Israel Antiquities...
Spreading the survivors’ stories
My friends at the nonprofit organization “Zikaron B’Salon” are always grappling with the question, “What will happen when we wake up to the headline informing us that the last Holocaust survivor has just died?”
That...
Magnificent Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem
When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...
“Never Again”? Really?
According to the annual report of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitism in 2021 was the highest it’s been in 10 years.
This should not replace...
Holocaust memorial in LIthuania: Protecting the nazis.
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
Today, a lawsuit was filed against the Government of Lithuania at the United Nations for Holocaust revisionism.
May the memory of the victims be preserved.
May those that elevate the perpetrators of...
Israel, NASA set to cooperate on space programs centered around Mars, moon
Israel and NASA are set to cooperate on the joint study of space, the moon and Mars, according to a report in recent days by EurAsian Times.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the Jewish state...
Unilever fires 1,500 workers, splits ice-cream from food division
The multinational firm Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, announced on Tuesday that in the wake of severe losses, it will fire 1,500 workers around the world and split off its ice-cream division from...
Hebrew University survey: More than half of Israeli Jews, Arabs expect European anti-Semitism to...
Timed to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s European Forum reveals a new survey that says Israelis expect anti-Semitism in Europe to worsen.
As for the future of Israeli-European relations, sociologist and...