Added: 16th November 2008 Posted By:orangetruth Views: 11 Comments:0
Meet Shifra Shomron - During the last years of Gush Katif, Shifra Shomron, then a teenager finishing high school, kept a diary and published several articles and poems about life in Neve Dekalim. A glimpse at the author Shifra Shomron with a personal look into the writing of her first novel...
Added: 7th September 2008 Posted By:wehavehistory Views: 81 Comments:0
Echoes from A Ghost Minyan: The Jews of South Philadelphia - On February 2, 1882 the S.S. Illinois docked on the foot of Federal Street on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Among the passengers on board were 225 Russian Jewish refugees. By the close of World War I almost 40 years later,...
Added: 1st September 2008 Posted By:ourtorah Views: 66 Comments:0
G-d commands Israel to establish cities of refuge for those who have accidentally murdered their fellow without malice or forethought. However, providing weapons to sworn enemies for the sake of "peace" cannot be considered unintentional manslaughter, but murder.
Shoftim (Deuteronomy...
Added: 14th August 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 139 Comments:1
Legend tells that after the Holocaust, Rav Yosef Kahaneman zt'l, looking for Jewish children who had survived the war. Some of the children had ended up in churches. He was granted permission to enter the children's quarters - when he entered he began calling out "Shema Yisroel" and instinctively...
Added: 7th August 2008 Posted By:orangetruth Views: 161 Comments:0
This shocking political satire cartoon from Israel National News truly hits the point - in 1948, families started with the temporary homes and later upgraded to houses - but the Gush Katif frontier heroes started in houses and were later forced to live in temporary houses (trailers) after being...