Jewish Religion and Thought
“We aren’t looking to topple [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu … but we’re also not willing to compromise our principles,” said Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman.
During the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto orphanage by the Nazis, Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live or join them in their deaths. He chose the latter.
“We sincerely thank Theresa May for being a true friend to the Jewish community during her time in office,” said Board of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl in a statement.
“We are strong when we stand united strong together for the good,” said Rabbi Shlomo Silverman in the invocation before this year’s commencement ceremony. “Don’t let it end here!”
Rabbi Elyahu Shaman was wounded in the face and hand. Witnesses to the assault apparently stood by and laughed.
The pro-Israel rights group Regavim reported that local farmers told their activists that “the sarcophagi from which the bones were removed had recently ‘disappeared.’ ”
A new synagogue opened and has been operating without a rabbi.
What is no joke (puns have proliferated since comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky announced his candidacy) is the high-profile visibility with which he has embraced his Jewishness—not a small factor in a country with as deep and troubled a history of anti-Semitism as Ukraine.
“All those Knesset members who voted in favor of the disengagement from Gaza must ask forgiveness from the people of Israel. They must take personal responsibility for the recent spilling of innocent blood,” said Rabbi Yirmeyahu Cohen.
It will endow courses, research and programs of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
He was known for reciting the Shema prayer in public at ceremonies honoring Holocaust victims—a practice he vowed to take upon himself after screaming it while SS guards rounded him and others up. He vowed to recite the prayer with living Jews if God would spare his life.
Five men attacked and injured Rabbi Shmuel and Chaya Notik, stealing religious items, food, passports and computers.
