Slideshow Powerpoint Viewer may be needed to view slideshow This is the very large, famous and impressive synagogue in Budapest. There is a beautiful Holocaust Memorial in a park-like setting behind the synagogue. It’s a silver tree with names of victims etched on the leaves … paid for by Tony Curtis, aka Bernard Schwartz.

A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi’s by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved. Not a single Bulgarian Jew was deported to the death camps, due […]

by Ezra HaLevi Artuz Sheva March 4, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) Dozens of ships attempted to bring Holocaust survivors past the British blockade of pre-state Israel in the 1940s, but only a few – including the S.S. Ben Hecht – managed to become entangled in controversies on three different continents. The 60th anniversary of the voyage of […]

By Haggai Hitron Ha’aretz Several former employees of the Shin Bet security service, including former chief Avraham Shalom, and former employees of national air carrier El Al gathered yesterday to reconstruct the daring capture of Adolf Eichmann. Television personality Dan Margalit convened participants in the complex operation at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak’s Massuah Institute for a […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine Jewish Press Wednesday, January 3, 2007 The Inquisition In Mexico For centuries Mexico was inhabited by a number of different Indian races. There were many native cultures in Mexico, but only six are considered to be the most influential. The Olmecs, the Teotihuacans, the Toltecs, the Mayans, the Zapotec/Mixtec, and the […]

By: Benyamin “Buddy” Korn Jewish Press Wednesday, January 10, 2007 The recent reunion, in Washington, D.C., of activists from the Soviet Jewry protest movement was an opportunity to see old friends and reminisce about a bygone era. But for Philadelphia attorney Joe Smukler, it was also a time to reflect on the lessons to be […]

Thousands of men and women who claim descent from forced converts have set out on an emotional odyssey to regain their families’ original faith—Judaism.

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, December 6, 2006 One of the most well-kept secrets in Flatbush is the Yosef Goldman Collection of American Jewish Books and Manuscripts. Area residents no doubt would be surprised to learn that this private collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world. Yosef Goldman looks like many other […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine Jewish Press Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Early Caribbean Jewish Communities – Part II The Jewish Community Of Curacao In 1527 the Spanish took possession of Curacao. By the early 16th century they had determined that the island had little gold and not enough fresh water for the establishment of large farms; […]

By: Steven Plaut Jewish Press Wednesday, November 1, 2006 “For the soul was ransomed from the pit of darkness, and life shall see light.” – Job 33:28 Its origins are in the medieval Spanish kingdom of Castille, in the early thirteenth century, well before Columbus left for the Americas. It was at some point purchased […]