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The Genesis Prize Foundation honoured the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with the Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes Lord Sacks for his extraordinary role in inspiring the next generation of Jews, and his illustrious life-long work as a teacher of Jewish values and an advocate of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue. The President of Israel Isaac Herzog presented the award to Lady Elaine Sacks at a special event celebrating the life and legacy of Rabbi Sacks, organized by The Genesis Prize Foundation in London around the first anniversary of his passing.   https://youtu.be/113xZqnkMnc...

22 Elul - Krakow & Oskar Schindler - 1939 On this day in 1939, the Nazis took control of the town of Krakow in Poland.  The city surrendered immediately avoiding the destruction that befell other Polish cities like Warsaw, Bialystok, and Levov. Krakow had been a strong Jewish community since the 13th century and was home to many great rabbis including R’ Moshe Isserles better known as the Rama who wrote the Ashkenazi glosses to the Code of Jewish Law. In 1939, there were around 70,000 Jews in the city.  In May 1940 the Nazis forced mass deportation leaving behind 15,000 Jews in the city’s overcrowded Jewish ghetto where everyone was crammed into 3,000 rooms.  One of the many German businessmen who took advantage of the slave labour from the Krakow ghetto was Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler at first sought cheap labour in coming to the ghetto.  Eventually, he became disgusted with the actions of his own Nazi party.   He used his connections...

The Jewish Chronicle : Television review: Valley of Tears Josh Howie    November 21, 2021  This drama about the Yom Kippur war is like a Woody Allen film transposed to the Golan Heights. The 10 part series is showing on More4 (Photo: HBO) With cinema and television placing ever more import on representation, you’d think the one genre an ethnic group would be happy not being overly featured in is war. Yet still, whenever a Jew does pop up, it makes an impact. Not that there are many examples; the guy who gets stabbed in the heart in Saving Private Ryan, the Star of David gravestone in the same film, the translator in Band of Brothers. If not for Spielberg’s efforts highlighting that we didn’t play only one part in WWII, that’d pretty much be it apart from the underrated Biloxi Blues, where the two Jewish protagonists never get beyond the training camp. So, in the ten-part Israeli drama Valley of Tears, when faced with an entire army of Jews, the...

FIRST LOOK AT HELEN MIRREN AS GOLDA MEIR IN UPCOMING BIOPIC Academy Award winner to portray Israel’s only female PM in feature-length movie ‘Golda’ set during turbulent Yom Kippur War period Production on “Golda” began earlier this year and it is currently being shot in London with a star-studded cast that includes “Call My Agent” star Camille Cotin as Meir’s longtime personal assistant and Israeli actor Lior Ashkenzi as her chief of staff. The feature-length movie is being directed by Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who won the 2018 Academy Award for best short for “Skin,” a film involving neo-Nazis that he later made into a feature. The news of the new biopic earlier this year followed the announcement of another star-powered production on Meir, a series titled “Lioness,” led by Israeli actress Shira Haas of “Unorthodox” fame. While “Golda” will focus on the turbulent Yom Kippur War period, “Lioness” will follow Meir from her birth in Kiev to her American upbringing in Milwaukee, her role...

Duchess of Cambridge meets Shoah survivors who found ‘paradise’ in Lake District Kate took a boat trip on Lake Windermere with Arek Hersh and Ike Alterman, both 93, who more than 75 years ago were part of a 300-strong group known as The Windermere Children   The Duchess of Cambridge spent time in the Lake District with Arek Hersh and Ike Alterman The Duchess of Cambridge heard the moving stories of Holocaust survivors sent to a British beauty spot to recuperate from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Kate took a boat trip on Lake Windermere with two elderly men who more than 75 years ago were part of a 300-strong group known as the Windermere Children who went from “hell to paradise”. While living close to the famous lake they underwent psychiatric sessions, art therapy and swam and climbed to aid their recovery, something the duchess described as “so forward thinking for the time”, adding: “It’s so relevant still today.” TV celebrity and barrister Robert Rinder,...

Absolutely phenomenal!! An Israeli Mizrachi man walked into the Great Synagogue in Italy (Florence) and started singing Oseh Shalom...just wow! When the Nazis occupied Florence, this very synagogue was the headquarters for Nazi artillery storage. When the Nazis were retreating, the entire building was wired to be blown up. The Nazis dragged their wires several blocks away. As they were doing this, the non-Jewish caretaker was able to dismantle all of the bombs, leaving only one in an area of the building where, if blown up, would not threaten the structure. He did this, so that when the Nazis detonated, they would hear an explosion and leave. Because of that Righteous Gentile, the magnificent Synagogue of Florence was saved. The dip in the floor is where the bomb went off.   https://www.facebook.com/ugobey/videos/446697350391012/...