Two weeks ago, my wife, Ann, and I completed our first trip to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Everywhere we went, our local guides proudly pointed out the progress that has been made since the fall of communism, and we could readily see for ourselves the affluence, elegance and style that are on display in the places that the tourists like to visit.
A Slovak court has commuted a death sentence against Laszlo Csatary, a war criminal whom Slovakia wants extradited from Hungary for his complicity in murdering thousands of Jews.
It\’s in the nearby city of Terezin that one of the most unique, if bizarre stories of the period can be found. And it\’s all captured in the grainy film produced by the Nazis.
The upcoming Los Angeles release of \”Hiding and Seeking\” follows its world premiere in mid-January as the opening-night selection of the New York Jewish Film Festival.
Every Shabbat and holiday for the last 16 years, Sha\’arei Am: The Santa Monica Synagogue has chanted the 3,000-year-old words from a Torah scroll salvaged from Susice.
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