Former Israeli envoy to Germany among those decrying move to rebuild synagogue destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. Bundestag, Hamburg Senate have committed to investing around $150 million in the project.
Richard Holzer, 28, appeared in a federal courtroom in Denver for a sentencing that capped an undercover FBI investigation of a plan to blow up Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colorado, the second-oldest synagogue in the state.
The vaccination program will span 1.5 weeks and take place at five vaccination centers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and Eilat.
The new technology overrides the usual everyday electrical operation of an appliance making it compliant with the rules of Jewish law during Shabbat and holidays.
Dating from pre-expulsion Spain and Portugal, the Megillah is "an incredibly rare testament to the rich culture of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula," says library curator Yoel Finkelman.
Replete with threats and insults, it also evoked international Jewish financial conspiracies.
Jewish Agency for Israel working on special aliyah program designed to bring doctors, nurses, and other medical workers to Israel.
“This has been a great gift,” declared Ana María Wahrenberg of rediscovering her school friend from Germany, Betty Grebenschikoff.
"I came here to thank you for your witness and to pay homage to the people martyred by the insanity of Nazi populism," Pope Francis told Bruck, 89, who writes in Italian about her childhood trauma, which included time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Jewish communities in the United States are preparing to celebrate the holiday of Purim in a COVID-safe manner.
