Click here to hear Al Jolson sing Hatikvah, found on Mt. Zion Congregation website.The following link goes to a recording introduced by NPR’s Scott Simon from 61 years ago. It features a reporter who was with the British army when they liberated Bergen Belsen in May 1945. In the midst of chaos, with dead bodies lying around them, the surviving Jews, some barely able to stand, joined voices to sing Hatikva, “The Hope,” which would become the Israeli National Anthem. It will bring tears to your eyes.http://genealogy.org.il/BergenBelsenHatikva.mp3And if you’d like to follow along with the lyrics, you can find them
Read More +From the author of It’s Almost Supernatural: I have been waiting for weeks for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Jewish report to publicize the findings of the South Africa Anti-Semitism report,06 by the Institute of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. And I will most likely continue waiting until the Messiah comes so I have decided to take the liberty of publishing its disturbing findings myself. Disturbing is not descriptive enough. Read the complete post here.
Read More +Folks, there’s a new site, Judeophobe Watch, which has an angle I can really appreciate. Judeophobe Watch allows for people of good conscience to debunk, refute, chastise, and debate anti-semitic postings from various Judeophobic web sites. Give it a looksee and add Judeophobe Watch to your blogroll.
Read More +2007 marks the fortieth anniversary of the war the West terms “The Six Day War”. The Arabs call it the “1967 War” or an-Naksah (The Setback). It has been said that for Israel this war was a question of sheer survival; for the Arabs it was one of credibility. Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing, offering immense clarity over what could or should have been done. It is too easy to be judgmental in retrospect. So sixdaywar.co.uk has tried to turn back the clock to give you a flavour of what it was like to be in Israel at
Read More +Folks, check out http://www.jewisheritage.fr, a website dedicated to more than 1,000 outstanding Jewish persons since Moses. The site is in French but that’s no problem. Just go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/, and enter http://www.jewisheritage.fr in order to translate the site into a language you can understand.
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