Category Archives: World
Why These Jewish Teens Are Listening To The Stories Of Holocaust Survivors
Jewish teenagers in fifteen countries from around the globe will meet with Holocaust survivors on Nov. 6-7, for ” A Shabbat to Remember.” The event, organized by Jewish youth organization BBYO , falls just days before the 77 th anniversary of Kristallnacht , a wave of violent anti-Semitic attacks instigated by Nazi Party officials in 1938. Read more » »
$6.8 MILION UPDATE: B’nai B’rith Camp
The B’nai B’rith — in Hebrew, „the Children of the Covenant” — Camp has some big plans for the future. Operators of the 94-year-old camp located on Northeast Devils Lake Road in Otis, received approval of conditional use permit request on Oct. 19 from The Lincoln County Planning Commission. Read more » »
Shalom amongst the chaos: Pro-Israel festival bring faiths together, provides …
Shalom Festival in Brussels (Courtesy) On October 25, 2015 in Antwerp a demonstration took place, a demonstration, which unlike many others in Europe, promoted peace and understanding. A similar one took place in August 2015 in Brussels called the Shalom Festival. Read more » »
World Center Director Alan Schneider Pens Piece on Jewish Rescue in „Mizkar”
B’nai B’rith World Center Director Alan Schneider wrote a piece on Jewish rescue for the September issue of „Mizkar,” a quarterly on the Holocaust, revival, memory and memorialization published by the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel that represents 50 organizations assisting Holocaust survivors. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Applauds Opening Of Compensation Program For Holocaust Survivors Deported From France
B’nai B’rith International is pleased that an agreement benefiting Holocaust victims who were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps entered into force Nov. 1. Negotiated between the French and U.S. governments in 2014 , the pact will make available $60 million in French government funds, to be distributed by the U.S. Read more » »
Thomas Blatt, survivor of escape from Sobibor, dies at 88
eapcontent.ap.org FILE – In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo Polish born Thomas ‘Toivi’ Blatt, one of the joint plaintiffs during the Demjanjuk trial, waits in the court room in Munich, southern Germany, prior to the trail against John Demjanjuk. Read more » »
Charity and volunteer events in the Los Angeles area, Nov. 2-9
Center Stage Opera: Luncheon with a fashion show and big band music, noon Wednesday. Cost $47.57. Reservations required by Tuesday. Proceeds from clothing sales go to the opera’s community service program. Maggiano’s Little Italy, 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills. 818-517-4102. www.brownpapertickets. Read more » »
Thomas Blatt, Survivor of Escape From Sobibor, Dies at 88
WARSAW, Poland — Thomas Toivi Blatt, who was among a small number of Jews to survive a mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in 1943 and who decades later served as a prominent witness at the trial of the alleged camp guard John Demjanjuk, has died. He was 88. Read more » »
Glasgow goes big on heritage
October 29, 2015 Regional synagogues and other communal properties of historic and architectural importance drew the crowds during B’nai B’rith UK’s annual European days of Jewish culture and heritage. Read more » »
To Be, or Not To Be: A Covenant in Conversation
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honourable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. – Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli, a conservative, was speaking to William Gladstone, the anti-Semitic liberal leader in the British parliament in 1874. Read more » »
