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Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

by | Jan 9, 2017 | Yom HaShoah

Zachor!  Memories of my first Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy   January 27, 1945 marks the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were tortured, starved and murdered.. Sixty years later, in November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly...
Sephardic Passover Traditions

Sephardic Passover Traditions

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Jewish Food, Passover

Sephardic Traditions at the Passover Seder Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews – What’s the Difference? There is a division within the Jewish community that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day.  It is not a division between religious denominations such as...
A Tisha B’Av Story

A Tisha B’Av Story

by | Jul 20, 2020 | Tisha B'Av

Tisha B’Av – A Jewish Memorial Day to Honor the Memory of the Jews of the Inquisition Tisha B’Av is a day of Jewish mourning. It falls on the 9th day in the Hebrew month of Av which, this year begins at sundown on Monday, July 26 and continues through...
Chanukah lights

Chanukah lights

by | Jan 9, 2017 | Chanukah

Our Chanukah lights are now a sweet memory but thanks to Rabbi Chaim (Brothers for Life- Achim L’Chaim), sends a historic Chanukah photo and shares its special message.  Rabbi Chaim writes: At first glance the photograph below looks almost quaint, an old black...
Ferramonti

Ferramonti

by | Mar 2, 2018 | jewish and secular, Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur

Ferramonti Internment Camp The story of the Ferramonti Internment Camp is a story of Jewish survival thanks to the efforts of Italian soldiers and impoverished Italian villagers who worked together to save nearly 4,000 Jews. Located in the province of Cosenza on the...