by Eliyahu Berkowitz | f 18, 2023 | Holocaust Remembrance Day
Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland before World War II. Known as the ‘Children’s Rebbe,” his yeshiva (school for Torah study) was full of children who came to learn from him. Tragically, Rabbi Shapira’s only son, his...
by Eliyahu Berkowitz | f 3, 2023 | Antisemitism, Chosen Nation, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kings, Temple, Tenth of Tevet
High school was difficult for me. Not only was I an awkward teen but there was also a group of guys who, unbeknownst to me, had decided amongst themselves that they would make my life miserable. They would take turns playing pranks on me. At first, I thought I was the...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2022 | Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust remembrance day) is commemorated worldwide each year on the 27th of Nisan as a day to honor the memories of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. If the 27th of Nisan is adjacent to the Shabbat (either Friday or Sunday), the date is...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 13, 2016 | Antisemitism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Humility, Israel, Obadiah, Vayishlach
As the situation for European Jewry began to deteriorate, the Chofetz Chaim was asked in 1933 about the fate of the Jewish people. As recorded by one of his close disciples, the revered rabbi answered, “Hitler shall fail! No one has ever succeeded in destroying our...
