Kamil Tchorek It was perhaps the bravest act of espionage of the Second World War. After voluntarily being imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp for 2½ years, and smuggling out its darkest secrets to the Allies, Witold Pilecki overcame a guard and, with two comrades, escaped almost certain death. Now new details have emerged of […]

By Sara Yoheved Rigler Examples of the catastrophes forged by Jewish disunity are legion. Examples of the victories forged by Jewish unity, however, are much rarer, simply because Jewish unity is as rare as a snowfall in Israel. For one shining moment in 1945, however, Jews united — and won. As Hitler tightened the noose […]

By: Samuel M. Ehrenhalt Editor’s Note: Mr. Ehrenhalt submitted this article early last month and eagerly anticipated its publication. Sadly, he passed away on May 31 at age 83. An activist for Israel and Jewish concerns and a longtime reader of The Jewish Press who constantly passed along to the paper’s editors news and information […]

Allied leaders were aware of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt while it was going on but refrained from aiding the Jewish fighters, according to a former senior Israeli official who has authored a new book about the revolt. Prof. Moshe Arens, a former defense minister and Israeli ambassador to the United States, described the Allies’ abandonment […]

By N. Shuldig – July 2009 If we could say that there was a bright spot in the gloomy and somber history of the holocaust, perhaps we could point to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. If in all the dark and disgusting annals of recent history, when Jews were led to murder like sheep […]

By: Steven Plaut I am about to deliver a lecture in a glamorous building in Riga, one of the best examples of the Art Nouveau architecture style that makes the capital of Latvia so famous. The large seminar room is filled beyond capacity. “This seminar is going to be a strange one for two reasons,” […]

By: Samuel M. Ehrenhalt Editor’s Note: Mr. Ehrenhalt submitted this article early last month and eagerly anticipated its publication. Sadly, he passed away on May 31 at age 83. An activist for Israel and Jewish concerns and a longtime reader of The Jewish Press who constantly passed along to the paper’s editors news and information […]

By: Elliot Resnick Date: Wednesday, April 29 2009 If asked, “Who created the modern state of Israel?” most Jews would offer such names and institutions as David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, the Jewish Agency, and the United Nations. A newly translated memoir, however, completely upends this popular perception. In The First Tithe, Israel Eldad, who ran […]

By: Elliot Resnick Date: Wednesday, April 29 2009 If asked, “Who created the modern state of Israel?” most Jews would offer such names and institutions as David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, the Jewish Agency, and the United Nations. A newly translated memoir, however, completely upends this popular perception. In The First Tithe, Israel Eldad, who ran […]

by Dr. Alex Grobman (IsraelNN.com) During World War II, the staff of Hadassah Hospital played a significant role in helping Allied military forces throughout the Middle East. They offered weekly lectures and meetings for British medical personnel that acquainted them with regional medical issues, including blood diseases, jaundice, dysentery, anemia and high blood pressure. Courses […]