|
|
|
|
Debating Middle East policy - Young Jewish voters debate U.S. Mideast policy in this CNN installment of the League of First Time Voters. A bit disturbing how the moderator mentions "Palestine" in same sentence as Israel and other Middle East countries. But, the Jewish youth debate on Obama vs. McCain is interesting.
|
|
A short documentary (in Hebrew) about breaking in the Akko prison, killing of 3 Israeli Sergeants by the British and the retaliation of the Hebrew underground organization "Etzel". Statements given by Menachem Begin to this matter. Between 4 and 5 on Tuesday morning, July 29, 1947, the Acre prison gallows were operated three times in quick succession. Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar, Irgun fighters who had participated in the May 4th prison break which set free 41 Irgun and Lehi...
|
|
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...
|
|
Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein delivers a scathing address on the proposed two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians in an address at the ZOA's annual Brandeis Award dinner in New York City. Shalom TV exclusive coverage. Shalom TV is an American Jewish cable television network carried nationwide on Comcast, as well as on Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey, and Blue Ridge systems.
|
|
Herbert Lewin - In the mid-1990s, when Herbert Lewin turned 75, he slowly began to lose his eyesight. Today, at age 90, he is legally blind, but just as in his teenage years, listening to music is still one of his greatest pleasures. While sharing with us family photos he can barely see, Mr. Lewin tells us of his childhood in the East Prussian town of Osterode (Which today belongs to Poland). He speaks of his best friend who, despite being forced to join the Hitler Youth, never let him down....
|
|
