President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists and acknowledged the government had sometimes let the families down.
We are often reminded in our lives about the limits of what we can know, what we ought to know and what we can’t know.
Masza Rosenroth (née Czechanowska) stood with her two younger sisters, Gutia, 14, and Surra, 11, in the courtyard of the Lodz ghetto, amid hundreds of other residents who’d been ordered to assemble for yet another selection.
This interactive, mixed-media art installation and performance piece asks the important question, “What sacrifices have you made in order to be where you are today?”
The family businesses that make up the global diamond trade have seen their profits wiped out over the past five years, hit by shaky financing, increased costs and uncertain demand from customers who prefer hi-tech gadgets to bling.
Sitting in shul on Shabbos at Chabad of Westlake, do we really need to read about Rob Eshman’s naked exploits (still not sure what the point of that undignified article was) and a glorified Pride parade in Tel Aviv (a half-page article, no less)?
Parents of the dead and some of the scores wounded in the 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon defiantly confronted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, calling him \”cowardly\” at a hearing where he was to be formally sentenced to death.
European Jewish leaders say there is more anti-Israel sentiment and more anti-Semitism in Europe today than at any time in the past 60 years.
Elvin J. Abels died May 30 at 88. Survived by wife Edith; daughter Wendy (Douglas) Eisenberg; son Matthew; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai
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