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by Andee Goldman
On a Mano cruise to Greece, Andee Gold visited the
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island of Rhodes and learned about its rich Jewish history, which dates back to the 2nd century B.C. During its height in the 1930s, Rhodes had a Jewish population of about 4000. Today, there are only some 20 Jews, but the island has an impressive Jewish Museum.
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by Itzik Maron
An emotional tale of a chance meeting with a family
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in Lithuania who prove
to be closely connected to the writer.
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by Kenneth Collins
The book The Jewish Experience in Scotland brings together
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all the elements that make the Scottish Jewish community, whose roots trace back to the 1780s. It
describes the vibrant community of the 19th and early 20th centuries and its contribution. Sadly, however, in recent decades the community is decreasing, mirroring a global diaspora trend.
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by Barbara Abraham
A fragment of Torah scroll saved from the desecration
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of the Grand Synagogue in Algiers in 1960 has been brought to Israel and serves as a memento of that terrible occasion. The synagogue is now a mosque.
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by Alan W. Benjamin
Alan tells the fascinating tale of the vagaries of
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the Jews of Sicily. Among the first Jews were slaves, brought by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. A Jewish presence on the island has recently reappeared with a synagogue opened by a young Italian-American rabbi.
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by Meira Applebaum
Meira writes about her visit to the famous and beautiful
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synagogue, built originally in 1568, in the southern Indian city of Cochin, once home to a large and prosperous Jewish community. Cochin Jewish tradition maintains that Jews reached the area shortly after the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
Shlomo tells an amazing story which shows how everything
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in Jewish life is interconnected. The actions of a Jewish textile merchant from Sweden led to a lifelong friendship which then, when the son of the Swedish merchant became Rabbi Steinsaltz’s right-hand man, resulted decades later in the printing of the Commentary on Pirkei Avot in Chinese.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia describes her visit to The Lower East Side Tenement
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Museum in New York, on Orchard Street. It vividly presents the poverty and struggle to survive of so many immigrants to the USA in the early twentieth century. This is achieved by using personal stories as the medium to speak to the visitors and to preserve history.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Isaac Ochberg was a Ukrainian-born South African philanthropist
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who in 1921 snatched 200 children from the jaws of violence, hunger and disease. Lydia describes the Memorial Promenade and Park dedicated to his memory in the Menashe Hills.
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by Emma Tobin
An inspiring story of the attempt of an interfaith
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organization called HAF to breach the chasm between Jews and Muslims in Morocco as an example for the world to follow by planting trees in the ancient Jewish cemeteries that pepper the landscape of Morocco.
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by Stephen Kliner
This is the story of how Scottish Jews acquired their
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own tartan, which is navy blue, white and burgundy, reflecting Jewish tradition and Scottish history. It has the blessing of rabbinic authorities, being shatnez-compliant (non wool-linen mix).
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by Lydia Aisenberg
“We Were Neighbors” is a permanent exhibition documenting
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the deportation of Berlin’s Jews between 1941-1945 using, in many cases, Nazi records. Personal stories behind some of the exhibits provide a chilling insight into the events. In Berlin’s streets is another permanent exhibition, “Places of Remembrance,” which displays Nazi anti-Jewish legislation.
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by Emil Murad
Monument unveiling brings back vivid memories. In Or
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Yehuda in 1966, Emil Murad attended the unveiling of a monument commemorating the Iraqi heros Yosef Basri and Salah Shalom, who engineered the escape of over ten thousand young Jews from Iraq to Iran, and on to Israel. The two were accused of planting a bomb in the U.S. library in Baghdad and were executed on January 19, 1952.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
A courageous Ecuadorian Consul General, Muñoz Borrero,
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in Sweden saved many Jews in Europe during World War II by issuing 250 false passports. Borrero suffered personally as a result, but was posthumously bestowed the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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by Richard Shavei Tzion
The author, journeyng from Israel, takes us through
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the cemetries of CapeTown and Johannesburg in South Africa identifying the graves of his ancestors and thereby recalling the history of the Jews of the diaspora from time immemorial.
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