Sweden’s Jewish Leadership: We Will Stand Strong

Among the elderly at an old-age home in Gothenburg are survivors of Nazism, concentration camp inmates who were transported to Sweden on the White Buses in the spring of 1945 by the Swedish Red Cross. They were from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other German occupied countries, where they remember their childhoods in once lively Jewish communities that had been decimated.

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‘Shalom Aleichem’ in Memory of Slain 4-Year-Old

This Shabbos, our hearts and thoughts will turn to remembering Daniel Tregerman, OBM. This innocent four-year-old boy was killed by a mortar shell fired by Hamas at Nahal Oz, near the Gaza strip. At his funeral, his grandfather tearfully spoke of how much his little grandson loved “Shalom Aleichem” and then, in a voice cracked with pain, the grandfather slowly sang the lovely melody.

Perception or Deception? The Pious Animal Inclination

When Kaiser Wilhelm sought to invade Belgium, he was reminded of the signed treaty agreements, of which his actions would be in blatant violation. Dourly brushing the matter aside the Kaiser declared: “We shall take Belgium! As for the treaties? We can trust the philosophers to supply the necessary explanations.”

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.