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 […]
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 […]
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
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
🌲✡️ 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 […]
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 […]
Meet Eden Alene.
#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.
Good Morning from China
Enrique Eichner, United pilot on a layover in Chengdu, China
My kind of Souper Bowl
My kind of Souper Bowl What Jew Wanna Eat#superbowl #souperbowl
Daniel Pearl.
“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 […]
Ilan Ramon
“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 […]
Good Morning from Aconcagua
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 […]
Welcome Home.
Children Holocaust survivors, arriving at the Haifa port in Israel. Source: Kluger Zoltan, Government Press Office
We Remember.
“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 […]
This.
Source: Uri Pilichowski
Holocaust Survivor Watches IDF Grandson Fly Over Home in Israel
The unbelievable moment Holocaust survivor Lila sees her grandson flying over her home in Israel. Source: Israel Defense Forces
Meet Lois (Weiss) Flamholz.
“75 years after leaving the gates of Auschwitz, our grandmother, Lois (Weiss) Flamholz #therealWeiss, is heading back to the very place that she entered with her mother and father, three siblings, grandparents, cousins and friends. Forced from their home to a Ghetto, they then endured an agonizing train ride to […]
Shavua Tov from Jerusalem
#shavuatov #goodweek from Jerusalem Source: @daniyyel_n
Historic!
Watch this unprecedented event, Thursday January 23, 2020. Over 45 world leaders and Heads of State gather at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the 5th World Holocaust Forum, under the banner: “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism.” The forum includes addresses from a number of world leaders, short video […]
We Remember.
Commemorating the Holocaust from outer space. Astronauts hold up a #WeRemember sign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Source: World Jewish Congress Российский еврейский конгресс
Just in Case
Just in case. @kendraelwa
Good morning from El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines
Good morning from El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines Source: @bentzis @belevechad
Meaningful View
Pictured here is an exit at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. The top image is a look back at the memorial. The bottom image is when you turn around and exit to a view of the city of Jerusalem 🇮🇱#AmYisraelChai American Society for Yad Vashem
100 Years Apart
”This is such a powerful picture and felt I should share. My grandfather with my 3 week old daughter, the youngest great grandchild. They are 100 years apart! My grandfather is a survivor of 10 concentration camps. #trueblessings” – Stacey Ziegler