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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence,...
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Hanging By A String: Rappelling The Heights Of Mitzpe Ramon - Watch as climbers dare to scale the walls of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel's Negev desert region - the largest natural crator canyon in the world.
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Torah Life Lesson on Parshat Devarim from The Temple Institute. The holy Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev teaches that on the Sabbath before the 9th of Av, (the day of fasting which commemorates the Holy Temple which was destroyed in the year 70 AD by the Romans), the Sabbath known as Shabbat Chazon, the Sabbath of Vision, each and every Jew gains access to his own unique vision of the Holy Temple rebuilt! In this way, G-d inculcates us with heightened Temple consciousness, preparing us...
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Ayalon Institute: The Secret in the Hill - This is the story of a secret factory built underneath a limestone hill that manufactured ammunition for the Israeli resistance. On the surface it was used for training groups of young people for Kibbutz life. It operated during the years 1946 -1948. The Ayalon Institute - Kibbutzim Hill - by Yael Zisling. Imagine building a clandestine ammunition factory, right under the nose of the British. In 1945, the Haganah determined that at the end of the...
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Rosa Rosenstein - The story of a Berlin-born Jewish woman who lived through the turbulent times of Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, all while growing up, falling in love and starting a family. With charming snapshots of holidays, kindergartens and Purim parties, Rosa shows us how integrated, assimilated Jewish families lived in Germany then. In 1939, a few weeks after the war had started, her Hungarian husband Michi insisted on fleeing to Budapest, where he felt they...
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