Love This
This story makes my heart happy ♥️ “It was 1999. I had been living in Israel for 4 years I had tried my hand at the Jerusalem singles scene for two years and then in Tel Aviv for two. I was riding my bike home from work one day when […]
That special moment
That special moment 💙🇮🇱 They’ve arrived! 242 people have just moved to Israel and are brand-new Olim! Wish them an #AliyahTovah! The new arrivals are from a variety of backgrounds – hailing from 22 US states and two Canadian provinces. They include 103 children under the age of 17, 41 […]
Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 104th Birthday at Western Wall
Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz. After the war, she met her husband Dov, who lost his wife & children in the concentration camps. Together, they moved to Haifa, Israel where she worked as a tailor and helped her husband in his business. Shoshana just celebrated her 104th birthday. As a gift, […]
CONDOLENCES: Rabbi Avraham Langer
CONDOLENCES: Rabbi Avraham Langer, born 100 years ago in Galicia, Poland, survived the Holocaust and was liberated in Buchenwald by the U.S. Army in 1945. This image is from January 2019: ”This is such a powerful picture and felt I should share. My grandfather with my 3 week old daughter, […]
Hatikvah in Hungary
Hatikvah in Hungary 💙🇮🇱 Almost 600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. This weekend, The Great Synagogue of Budapest, one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Europe, was packed with over 3,000 young athletes competing in the European Maccabi Games. 🔉 Turn on the sound to hear Hatikvah, […]
Man’s Best Friend
Holocaust survivor Nina Dinar has always dreamt of hugging a Great Dane. Why? Because she was saved by one during the Holocaust. Born in Warsaw in 1926, Dinar always loved dogs and grew up raising them. During the war, she was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto and then sent to […]
Officer Pays Tribute to Grandfather
“This is my brother Alex. My grandfather passed away in Israel 30 days ago. My father went to be with his brother and do shiva and help bury my grandfather. My dad couldn’t be in Israel for the 30 days after my grandfather had passed so he asked 10 men […]
SHALOM: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez in Israel
SPOTTED: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez loving Israel. Rodriguez posted this to his Instagram stories. Enjoy your stay 💙
Friendship.
Holocaust survivor Henry Oster and high-schooler Drew Principe developed a special friendship after meeting at a school assembly. Henry shared his story of being deported from his home in Cologne, Germany to the Łódź ghetto just a few weeks before he was supposed to celebrate his bar mitzvah. The only […]
Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel
Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel! Born in Krakow, Poland, Saul was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Shoah. He survived the Kraków ghetto and several concentration camps, including Plaszów, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Linz. After the war, Saul was sent to a […]
Social Media Reunites 2 Auschwitz Survivors
As young teenagers, Lily Soriano Alhadeff and Rosa Hanana managed to escape Auschwitz together. In recounting her story, Lily said, “We were going to die anyway. It was either the gas chambers or a shot in our backs.” So, when the Nazi soldiers were distracted by the imminent arrival of […]
Amazing Humans.
♥️ These Israel Defense Forces soldiers donated their hair to make wigs for children who have lost their hair during treatment.
Gal Gadot #ProudIsraeli #ProudJew
Gal Gadot #ProudIsraeli #ProudJew Source: StandWithUs
17 Tammuz
🚫🍴FAST DAY: 17th Day of Tammuz #nidche The seventeenth day of the month of Tamuz is the start of a 3 week mourning period for the destruction of our 2 holy Temples. The Western Wall is all that remains today. Wishing all who are fasting an easy & meaningful fast. […]
Baskin-Robbins: It All Started with Bar Mitzvah Savings
🍦 Did you know that Irvine ‘Irv’ Robbins (1917-2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his #BarMitzvah! Born in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Robbins grew up working in his father’s ice cream parlor in Tacoma, Washington. He always finished the […]
WOW!
96 year old WWII veteran receives salute and applause at a recent New York Yankees game. Watch until the end
100 Cards for His 100th Birthday
💌 Please help Sam Weinreich get 100 birthday cards for his 100th birthday! His sign reads: “I am a Holocaust Survivor turning 100 on September 3rd 2019. I would like to receive 100 Birthday Cards. Please send to: Sam Weinreich 5731 Ashbriar Ave Memphis, TN 38120 USA” Source: @r.randomactsofcards
Meet Francine Christophe.
Holocaust survivor Francine Christophe was born in Paris on August 18, 1933. While attempting to flee the Nazis in 1942, Francine and her mother Marcelle were arrested and eventually deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Marcelle kept two small pieces of chocolate for her daughter to use when […]
Naomi Campbell Remembers The Lubavitcher Rebbe
“I would not normally show my prayers at the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson)’s resting place, but since I was snapped I decided to put it out myself. In honor of #TheRebbe and his vital teachings 25 years after his passing. 💛🙏🏾📸 by Simon azulay” – Naomi Campbell Naomi […]
Marc Chagall and Golda Meir
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887 – March 28,1985) Image: Marc Chagall and Golda Meir In Israel 1969, at ceremony in Knesset during which […]
CONDOLENCES: Cameron Boyce
American actor Cameron Boyce passed away suddenly at the age of 20. Boyce is best known for his work on the Disney Channel and various hit movies. Often comparing himself to Drake, Boyce was very proud of his black and Jewish background/heritage. May his memory be blessing.
We Remember Elie Wiesel
#WeRemember Elie Wiesel passed away 3 years ago today on July 2, 2016. He was an American Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Weisel was the author of 57 books, including ‘Night’, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the […]
Dazs Interesting.
🍦 Dazs Interesting. Reuben Mattus invented the “Häagen-Dazs” name supposedly as a tribute to Denmark’s exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War, and included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. Mattus claimed the name was “Danish-sounding,” although it is not Danish. Source: 8FACT
Just a couple of Hockey legends
✡️🏒 Just a couple of Hockey legends. Adam Sandler and Jack Hughes, at 18 years old, Hughes just became the first Jewish player to be Number 1 overall pick in the NHL draft.
Jewish barber shop, Lower East Side, New York, 1940
Jewish barber shop, Lower East Side, New York, 1940 Source: Andreas Feininger
Mazal Tov! 90 Year Old Holocaust Survivor Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah
On the eve of Menachem Haberman’s bar mitzvah in 1940, Hungarian troops committed a pogrom near his town synagogue in Munkács. Menachem’s father was taken away and the rest of the family was later deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters were immediately sent to the gas chambers. In 1945, […]
Holocaust Survivor and Granddaughter
Holocaust survivor Hanna Tessler holding the hand of her granddaughter, Israel Defense Forces soldier Shira Tessler, during this year’s annual Yom HaShoah ceremony at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. Photo: Abir Sultan AFP News Agency Getty Images Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Anne Frank and Audrey Hepburn
Who Knew! Did you know that legendary actress Audrey Hepburn helped save Dutch Jews during the Holocaust? As a young girl in Nazi-occupied Holland, Hepburn staged secret dance recitals to raise money for the Dutch Resistance. Known as “zwart avonden,” or “black evenings,” these illegal performances helped to support those […]
Father’s Day
This is one of my favorite pictures of my dad. I took this photo several years ago at the airport when we were all flying out to a family simcha together. Wherever and whenever we traveled, if the sun was coming up, my dad was putting on his Talis and […]
6.13
Today is 6/13, there are 613 mitzvot in the Torah #DoAMitzvah #613
Anne Frank
90 years ago today, Anne Frank was born. 77 years ago today, she received a blank diary for her 13th birthday.