Your Daily Spiel For July 25
Ivanka Trump is shutting down her clothing brand; the last survivor to escape Auschwitz dies; over 230 immigrants from North America arrive in Israel.
Limmud FSU delegation participates in leadership summit in Warsaw
The five-day event focused on training and educating today’s Jewish leaders who have roots from the Former Soviet Union.
YOUR DAILY SPIEL FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 4
Today’s spiel: Ray Allen visits Auschwitz, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff will testify in the corruption probe against the prime minister, CIJA urges the Canadian government to grant asylum to Times of Israel journalist.
‘The saddest coffeehouse in the world:’ On H.G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941-1945
Adler writes with grim judgement of the degrading impact of privilege and hierarchies among the camp’s tens of thousands of incarcerated Jews.
Yom Hashoah ceremony speaker was born in Auschwitz
Angela Orosz was born in Auschwitz. Her mother went into labour alone on a top bunk, unable to utter a sound. She delivered the baby, weighing just 1 kilogram, and hours later had to leave her to go to work.
Your daily spiel for Thursday, March 30
In today’s spiel: Letters on CHAT north closure, man accused of some of the JCC bomb threats doesn’t seek bail and teens fined for trying to steal from Auschwitz museum.
Des élèves de Yavné visitent Auschwitz-Birkenau
YID est un programme éducatif initié il y a trois ans par l’École Yavné
How Peres and visiting Auschwitz shaped me as a leader
Shimon Peres’s commemoration and bearing witness to a site that will always speak to humanity’s capacity for cruelty will forever shape me as a leader
Auschwitz doc becomes a personal investigation
While at a film festival in Wroclaw, filmmaker Philippe Mora found many documents related to this family’s past.
A miracle amid a death march from Warsaw to Dachau
The story of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam who witnessed a miracle on Tisha b’Av, of all days, in a place called Sochatchov
