The Modern Seder – Women’s Role
New Passover Traditions Arise As We Celebrate the Changing Role of Jewish Women: Beginning in the mid 1970’s when the first woman rabbi was ordained in the Reform movement, modern Jews have expanded the role that women play in Jewish culture, tradition and observance....
Purim Puppetry – Jews Created What Became Legitimate Theater
In a New York Times article dated March 8, 2019, journalist Milan Schreuer reports on a Belgium Carnival Festival that exhibited nasty anti-semitic overtones. Schreuer notes that although everyone is fair game for satire, the organizers who created the Jewish parade...
At the Ferramonti Concentration Camp -Three Synagogues, High Holy Days and Bed Sheet Brides
A wedding gown fashioned from a bed sheet and a veil crafted from mosquito netting – these were shared among the 24 Jewish brides who married under the chuppah in, of all places, a WW II Concentration Camp. It happened in southern Italy at the Ferramonti...
Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy
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...
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