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Warsaw, Poland 1946

A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland’s World War II ruins while shooting a portrait in Warsaw, Poland, 1946, by Michael Nash History In Pictures

“I live in Israel now so that their sacrifices weren’t for nothing.”

“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 […]

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What She Said.

Adorable. Source: People

Posted by an ER Doctor in Brooklyn, NY.

Rabbi Romi Cohn.

CONDOLENCES: Rabbi Romi Cohn, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and rescuer, passed away yesterday from the #coronavirus. Romi was born on March 10, 1929 in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Czechoslovakia. When the Germans began deporting Jews from Slovakia in 1942, Romi’s parents had him smuggled to Hungary, which had not yet been occupied by […]

Gal Gadot Shares Superpower

A message from Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot: “Staying home is my super power ✌???? and yours! Please everyone take care of yourself, your loved ones and us all. This situation should not be taken lightly. The sooner we all stay home and keep ourselves from catching this Very contagious virus ???? the sooner we can […]

Hannah Senesh.

Hannah Senesh, heroine of Israel. Her mission: secretly parachute into Nazi Europe to rescue Hungarian Jews before the Nazis could send them to gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On March 14, 1944, 22-year-old Hannah Senesh and a small unit of Jewish paratroopers volunteering with British Forces parachuted into Yugoslavia where they […]

Friday March 13, 2020 in Jerusalem

Jerusalem Friday morning is usually bustling. This morning March 13, 2020 I walked the whole length of Jaffa Street, the main road of Jerusalem. No voice. No visage. Terem is empty Zion square is empty Caffe Ne’eman is emptyBen Yehuda is practically empty Coffee Bean is emptyMain Superpharm is empty (no alcohol gel)Kaffit […]

Purim 2020

#Purim2020 Man reads Megillah for a person in quarantine. Source: Chabad.org

Happy 100th Birthday: Benjamin Ferencz

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 […]

Meet Sonia Perry

I discovered my deep passion for wildlife at a very young age, through the legendary Steve Irwin. He was the one who I grew up watching and felt inspired by him and how courageous he was. My father would take me every weekend to the Queens County Farm to play […]

Mazal Tov!

Mazal tov! Holocaust survivors from the former Soviet Union, aged 96 and 91, got married in Haifa recently. What a beautiful celebration! Source: StandWithUs

Bashert

Bashert: *defined* (in Jewish use) a person’s soulmate, especially when considered as an ideal or predestined marriage partner. The story begins with Holocaust survivors Ira Lulinski and Isaac Aron. Both Ira and Isaac were from the town of Miory, Poland (today Belarus). In June 1942, a year after being forced […]

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Mazal Tov Ruben Golran

#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 […]

CONDOLENCES: Steve Ross

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 […]

Good Morning from México

Good morning from México city Source: @chombo0

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem Source: @stateofisrael

Mazal Tov on the engagement of Gilad Shalit to Nitzan Shabbat

#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.

Facts.

Facts. Source: UberFacts

Music and Rain

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

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Happy Tu B’Shvat

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 […]

Tu Beshvat

Source: Dry Bones

Jewish Star Flower

✡️???? #ShavuaTov ???? Have a great week #JewishStarFlower

Meet Zelda Birken.

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 […]

American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates Winter Gala 2020

CONDOLENCES: Kirk Douglas

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 […]

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