Newly arrived and, at 17, one of the oldest among the 1,000 boys in Birkenau’s Block 22, Jack Lewin – then Yanek Levin – was incensed as he watched the Polish block leader and his Jewish deputy, a man named Wolkowicz, divvy up the bread rations, cutting the small, hard loaves intended for four prisoners into five portions and pocketing the extras.
It could have been anyone playing on a recent weeknight at the Black Rose Tavern in Pico-Robertson — the folksy melodies were as contemporary as they come. But the spirit behind the music was pure frum.
As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles has grown to a level that is a civic disgrace, I’ve been wondering whether we Jews have a special obligation to help them.
Angela Guanzon is soft-spoken, but unwavering in her message: “Open your eyes and be vigilant in your surroundings,” she told a room full of volunteers during an outreach event hosted by National Council of Jewish Women Los Angeles (NCJWLA) on Jan. 24.
A political cartoon by Steve Greenberg
Based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, this surrealistic drama celebrates the self-sacrifice of a surprisingly contemporary and liberated woman searching for a deeper truth.
I am a senior and a U.S. Navy veteran and was born and raised in New York, in the city and in the Westchester suburbs.
Evelyn Bandel died Dec. 30 at 81. Survived by son William (Julie); daughter Leslie Stansbury; 4 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; sister Edith (David) Weber. Mount Sinai
Then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan once acknowledged that the United Nations “rose from the ashes of the Holocaust” to save the remnants of European Jewry and provide the Jewish people with an opportunity to fulfill their age-old aspirations through the new nation state of Israel.
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