On this day, August 30, 1942, pastor André Trocmé urged the congregants in his overflowing church to “Do the will of God, not of men”. When the deportations began in France in summer 1942, he urged his congregation to give shelter to any Jew who should ask for it. “These […]
Fier d’etre Juif. Proud to be a Jew. גאה להיות יהודי. Source: Rudy Rochman רודי רושמן
This is Lieutenant Colonel Sam Sachs, a Jewish-American WWII veteran who survived the invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and helped liberate a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Born in North Dakota in 1915, Sachs served as a U.S. Army officer with the 325th Glider Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. On June 6, […]
CONDOLENCES: Michel Bacos Bacos, the captain of Air France flight 139 hijacked to Entebbe in 1976, was awarded a medal by the Israeli government for refusing to leave his Jewish passengers behind. When the terrorists released their non-Jewish hostages and offered to release Bacos and his crew, he refused and […]
CONDOLENCES: Georges Loinger. Loinger was born in Strasbourg in 1910 and was best known as a French Resistance hero having saved 350 Jewish children during WWII. Loinger said that he used to train the children to run before telling them they were going to play ball near the border. “I […]
On this day, August 30, 1942, pastor André Trocmé urged the congregants in his overflowing church to “Do the will of God, not of men”. When the deportations began in France in summer 1942, he urged his congregation to give shelter to any Jew who should ask for it. “These […]
Top Countries by Jewish Population Is your country on the list? Israel USA France Canada UK Russia Argentina Australia Germany Brazil South Africa Ukraine Hungary Mexico Source: @welovemapsandfacts
SPOTTED: On the Red Carpet at the 2018 Cannes film festival, Polish/French actress Monika Ekiert posted this photo: “Red Carpet for Star Wars – with one real star of ISRAEL. Dress by Amazing Vietnamese designer @dotrinhhoainam pochette @patetpatcreations” – @monikaekiert
“Anytime – anywhere and everywhere. Taken off the coast of Cannes – South of France” – @davidereira1
Thank you France! Nous Remercions la France pour sa solidarité avec Israel
France on Monday officially returned a 16th-century portrait, attributed to Joos van Cleve or his son, to the descendants of Hertha and Henry Bromberg, a German-Jewish couple who were forced to sell the work of art in Paris when they fled Germany before World War II. Source: The New York […]
Fabien Gilot won a silver medal with his team this Monday in the men’s freestyle relay finals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. As the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, Fabien tattooed his arm in tribute to his late grandfather. “אני כלום בלעדיהם” “I am nothing without them”
A social media campaign is urging French men to wear a Kippa this Friday in solidarity with the Jewish people. ‘#TousAvecUneKippa’ (everyone with a kippa) comes after leader of the Jewish community in Marseille suggested Jews should stop wearing the head covering following a machete attack on a Jewish teacher in the […]
“Someone rings my doorbell. I open it — it’s my neighbor. ‘Happy New Year,’ she says nicely, and we exchange a few casual words. And then her attitude changes, as if she is going to make a very official declaration to me: ‘Lisa, honey, the whole building is asking you […]
