“The plot was fraught with danger…” Eliezer HaKohein Isaac related this amazing account of his World War II experience to his son-in-law, Yitzchak Hershkovitz, of Petach Tikvah, Israel. I was in a concentration camp in Hungary, near the Romanian border, under the rule of the accursed Nazis. When their […]
Weekly Chasidic Story
“The danger was real and life-threatening…” For being a Jew and wanting to live like one, Reb Asher Sosonkin, a devoted Lubavitcher chassid, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. There, he and other “political” prisoners lived, cut off from the outside world, in the harshest […]
The Warden Who Counted
“I never met a Jew before but I know they are the Chosen People.” About four years ago I – Yaakov Cass — walked into the Tchekenov shul in Ramot [suburb of Jerusalem] after work one evening to study with my chavrusa [Torah-study partner]. I found him learning with a […]