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 day happy […]
“I am the first generation in my family that has both freedom from anti-Semitism and the opportunity to benefit from the continuous security and hope that Israel provides. My father spent his childhood under a military dictatorship in Argentina that despised Jews. My grandparents and great-grandparents went through the Holocaust […]
This 92-year-old man helped his wife color her hair when she couldn’t go to the salon because of social distancing. ❤️ (????: Yael Shapira Avraham) Source: E! News
CONDOLENCES: Yosef Neiman succumbs to injuries. Neiman was brutally attacked in Monsey 3 months ago at a Chanukah party in his Rabbi’s home. Many have described Neiman as a gentle and kind human being. Father of 7 children, grandfather and great-grandfather, he was 72. May his memory be a blessing, […]
#MazalTov to Holocaust survivor Ester Wienrib who celebrated her 97th birthday via video call this week! Please note the birthday cake says 98, which is for 97 years + 1 for good luck. Wienrib, who is originally from Poland, currently lives in Tel Aviv and has been mostly confined to her […]
Happy 100th Birthday to Mr. Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. Born March 11, 1920 to a Jewish family in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, Ben Ferencz moved with his family to America when he was ten months old. After graduating Harvard Law School in 1943, he enlisted […]
1956: Golda MeirTIME magazine announces its 100 Women of the Year, which is TIME’s list of the most influential women of the past century.Photo: Burt Glinn – Magnum Photos Article: https://time.com/5793561/golda-meir-100-women-of-the-year/
Mazal tov! Holocaust survivors from the former Soviet Union, aged 96 and 91, got married in Haifa recently. What a beautiful celebration! Source: StandWithUs
Happy 100th birthday to Holocaust survivor Malka Zajc! Born on February 28, 1920 in Ciechanów, Poland, Malka survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as well as the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malchow concentration camps. After the war, she made a life for herself in New York City, where she still lives […]
#MazalTov to Ruben Golran on his Bar Mitzvah! Ruben is in Milan, Italy. All the Synagogues in Milan are closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. With 500 guests invited from around the world, Ruben’s Bar Mitzvah party had to be cancelled, while the Torah reading portion proceeded as scheduled. Let’s all […]
Steve Ross (né Szmulek Rozental) was born in 1931 near Łódź, Poland. He spent 5 years in 10 different concentration camps, including Budzyń, Auschwitz, and Dachau. He survived medical experiments, starvation, sexual abuse, and brutal beatings on a daily basis. When Ross was liberated from Dachau, he was 14 years […]
#MazalTov on the engagement of Gilad Shalit to Nitzan Shabbat. Shalit is a former IDF soldier who was captured by Hamas terrorists in 2006 and was held captive for over five years until his release in 2011.
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Sometimes we just need to take a moment to stop & listen to the music, the rain, and the vibrant city sounds around us. Source: @sephardicsoul
Happy Tu B’Shvat from Israel #TuBshvat is the Jewish “New Year of the trees”. On Tu B’Shvat we plant trees for future generations. Tu is the number 15 in the biblical numbering system (which uses the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet). B’ is Hebrew for “in”. Shvat is the current […]
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✡️???? #ShavuaTov ???? Have a great week #JewishStarFlower
Holocaust survivor Zelda Birken looking into the eyes of her great-granddaughter. ❤️ Born in Poland, Zelda immigrated to the US with her husband Natan, also a Holocaust survivor, in 1951. The two met in Sweden after the war. Their granddaughter Jen recalls asking her Zaydie once why he didn’t just […]
CONDOLENCES: Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Region, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), and the family spoke Yiddish at home. His father’s brother, who immigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas’s family adopted […]
#MazalTov Eden Alene – עדן אלנה! The 19 year old Israel Defense Forcessoldier, will represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 this coming May in Rotterdam.
Enrique Eichner, United pilot on a layover in Chengdu, China
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“My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I am a Jew.” Daniel Pearl’s final words 18 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 in […]
“From space, Israel looks just like it is: very small and very beautiful” – Ilan Ramon 17 years ago on 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 […]
I wanted to send this picture of my father. He’s at the summit of Aconcagua, one of the tallest mountains in the world. The chabad of Argentina told him that he’s the first and only Orthodox Jew to complete the entire hike to the top! He also completed Kilimanjaro in […]
Children Holocaust survivors, arriving at the Haifa port in Israel. Source: Kluger Zoltan, Government Press Office
“International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I usually speak of my dad when I talk of the Holocaust, but today I’d also like to let everyone know that my dad was part of a large thriving family in Poland. This picture is just that of his mother’s side before the war. Out […]
Source: Uri Pilichowski
