THE ISRAEL HOPE PROJECT, initiated by President Rivlin 30 years ago the majority of grade one students in Israel were non-observant Jews. Today they are no longer the majority. Israeli society is no longer a majority with a few minorities but, over the last decades, has been evolving into four […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
In one of the last groups to arrive in Bergen-Belsen towards the tail end of World War II was a Jew of charismatic appearance who became known to all the other inmates as Reb Shmelke. His full name was Shmuel-Shmelke Shnitzler, a chassid and Torah scholar from somewhere in Hungary. He was […]
CHANUKAH IN BERGEN-BELSEN
My wife, Chaya Bracha, and I merited having a personal audience with the Lubavitcher Rebbe before our wedding forty years ago. This was only a year after the Rebbe had suffered a major heart attack, and each visitor was instructed before they entered the Rebbe’s personal office that no kvitilach […]