On January 27, Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid visited the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Upper Austria to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Joining
Groundbreaking international symposium at Wagner College changes our understanding of women’s central role in resistance and rescue. (Courtesy of Wagner College) During the Holocaust, thousands
The following are excerpts from letters received by Jewish Link contributor Norbert Strauss, from the daughter and son-in-law of the Protestant minister who, during Hitler’s
As soon as our children are born, we start worrying about what will hurt them and what will make them sad. My heart always breaks
Jews are increasingly the target of and hate and violence, even as memories of the horrors of the Holocaust fade and ignorance about what led
“The Holocaust exposed a depth of cruelty and despair. Previously unimaginable, yet 80 years later, what was once inconceivable and shocking beyond belief, is currently
They reminded me of cute little monkeys, four little brothers, gamboling on the bima after services, sugared up after having their Adon Olam lollipops. It
Auschwitz. The name itself cannot be whispered. Its pronunciation is naturally guttural, harsh and punishing, evoking auditory images of the horrors that befell millions who
Devorah Miller-Kwestel, 23, made aliyah from Passaic in 2017 when she was only 19 years old. She first lived in Gush Etzion, where she did
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. In
Pittsburgh. Jersey City. Monsey. Poway. And now Colleyville. But this time, it was different … and not because, thank God, no one was killed or
Reviewing: “Beyond a Code of Jewish Law: Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam” by Simcha Fishbane. Academic Studies Press, December 2021. English. Hardcover. 272 pages. ISBN:978-1644697047.
