🚀🇮🇱🌝 HISTORIC: Israeli spacecraft named ‘Beresheet’, which is Hebrew for Genesis, will be Israel’s first mission to the moon! The unmanned spacecraft is loaded with a time capsule that gives a glimpse into Israeli life past and present. Some of the items in the capsule include: a Holocaust survivor’s story, […]
78 years ago today, 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland. Source: HistoryBites
💐🇮🇱 Good Morning from Jerusalem Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel
🚀🇮🇱 This is the Time Capsule that will be traveling to the moon on the Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” in two days. This tiny Time Capsule contains hundreds of nano-data files which include the Torah, Israel’s declaration of Independence and national anthem, memories of a Holocaust survivor, Children’s drawings of space […]
Super close up of super-talented artist David Jon Kassan, working on his painting of the amazing Eva Schloss, educator and Survivor of the Shoah (Holocaust). Also Anne Frank’s Stepsister. Oil on panel, life-sized.
#ShabbatShalom from Gal Gadot 🕯🕯 Have a Wonder-ful Shabbos #wonderwoman
Meet DVF – Diane von Furstenberg. Diane von Fürstenberg (born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin) is a Belgian-American fashion icon best known for her wrap dress design. She was born December 31, 1946 in Brussels, Belgium to a Moldovian-born father and a Greek-born mother. Diane’s mother, Lily Nahmias, was a holocaust […]
Lena Goldstein was a 20-year-old student when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Confined to the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000-plus Jews were forced to live, by early 1943 she was one of just 35,000 still alive. Last week, Lena celebrated her 100th birthday in Sydney Australia. #MazalTov Source: World […]
Last week, Yaakov Weksler (b. 1943) had his Bar Mitzvah in the Yad Vashem Synagogue. A former Polish Catholic priest, Yaakov (formerly Romuald Waszkinel) discovered at age 35 that he was in fact the son of Jews killed in the Holocaust. In the hopes of saving their infant son’s life, […]
✡️ Source: Jewish National Fund – JNF
CONDOLENCES: Ori Ansbacher, 19-years-old, was buried today. She went to spend some quiet time in the Jerusalem forest yesterday and was brutally murdered 💔 BDE May her memory be a blessing
Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifshitz) is an iconic American fashion designer, philanthropist and best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. Lauren was born in the Bronx (New York City) on October 14, 1939, to Frieda and Frank Lifshitz. His parents were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Pinsk, […]
MAZAL TOV: Both survived the Holocaust and this week together they welcomed their 13th great grandson into the family! Source: StandWithUs
🏈 #MVP Julian Edelman New England Patriots#MazalTov
♥️ MAZAL TOV: Captain Matan was part of Israel’s humanitarian delegation which provided aid to Brazil following the dam collapse. Matan arrived back in Israel and proposed to his fiancée Danielle right there on the runway. She said Yes!
After flying to Brazil as part of an Israel Defense Forces aid mission following the tragic dam collapse, one of our soldiers from the K9 Oketz Unit rests alongside her loyal companion on the trip back to Israel.
“From space, Israel looks just like it is: very small and very beautiful” – Ilan Ramon 16 years ago, February 1st 2003, we lost Col. Ilan Ramon, an Israeli Air Force fighter pilot & Israel’s 1st astronaut for NASA. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal […]
#WeRemember “My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I am a Jew.” Daniel Pearl’s final words 17 years ago, February 1, 2002. The world has come to know Daniel Pearl as the Wall Street Journal reporter with American and Israeli citizenship who was kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists and murdered in Pakistan […]
First I am a Jew.
✡️ This. Source: Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: beat mumenthaler – photographerGamaraal Foundation
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: Gal Gadot
✡️ #WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain 🕯 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Liberation Of Auschwitz, 1945. #WeRemember Source: History In Pictures Photograph by Boris Ignatovich. — at Auschwitz Birkenau.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2018 #WeRemember — in Berlin, Germany
Leslie Kleinman was born on 29th May 1929 in Ambud, a small village near Satu Mare in Romania, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had four brothers and three sisters and his father was a Rabbi. The family’s peaceful world was first disrupted when Hungary occupied this area of Romania […]
“I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Source: Israel Defense Forces
Happy Tu B’Shvat! Source: Yuval Oz
“Circa early 1950’s. My dad (bottom right) and his family a few years after immigrating to Israel from Izmir, Turkey. As legend goes, he was apparently born in a suitcase while on a boat 🧳 🛳. It was a different time. #humansofjudaism” – @danbenaderet
Eva Heller arrived at the Prague airport with her father, Ewald, and her brother, Holger, on January 12, 1939. She and 22 other children waved goodbye to their parents for the camera, then boarded a KLM plane bound for London on a Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. She would […]
