Added: 16th November 2008 Posted By:isralife Views: 18 Comments:0
Rabbi Meir Lau went from being the youngest survivor from the Buchenwald death camps in Nazi Germany to becoming the Chief Rabbi of the modern State of Israel. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau was born in 1937 in Pyotrekov, Poland. A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, he lost both of his parents...
Added: 14th November 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 47 Comments:0
"God On Trial" - PBS - Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper, and Stellan Skarsgard star in this harrowing drama about believers and non-believers coming to terms with a world drenched in evil and suffering. Celebrated screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is based on the often told,...
Added: 13th November 2008 Posted By:israelreporter Views: 19 Comments:0
No words can describe the agony of a family burning down its own house in Gush Katif (Neve Dekalim) during the black day of the forceful expulsion in 2005. This was done moments prior to the family's being evicted and to prevent the house from falling into the hands of the gaza arab gangs. And,...
Added: 12th November 2008 Posted By:mishpacha Views: 25 Comments:0
Chaim Potok reflects on his writing process and how he developed characters for some of his greatest novels. Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents,...
Added: 3rd November 2008 Posted By:orangetruth Views: 56 Comments:0
Elisheva Federman Interviewed at the Ruins of Destroyed Home - The story in the words of Hebron spokesperson David Wilder: "At about 1:30 the two homes on the Federman farm were forcibly invaded. Sinai Tur and his wife Rivka were told that they had seven minutes to get out. The Federman family...