Daily Archives: September 17, 2005
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Jews split by a messianic message
The Observer
Rabbi Ramy Banin, a big man with a long grey beard, is sitting in his office switching easily between English, Italian, Hebrew and Yiddish as he chats with visitors who walk through its open door. Outside, the late-summer sun slants across the small square of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto, warming the red and yellow walls of the tall buildings and the 500-year-old synagogue, past the memorial to the Jews deported in the Second World War and past shops selling menorah, stars of David and other Hebraica.
A Venezuelan stops by the rabbi’s office to introduce his Polish wife – ‘a good Jewish girl, of course,’ he says. An American woman wanders in and leaves with a handful of pamphlets. Outside, a group of schoolchildren sing a few lines of a religious song.
India’s lost tribe recognised as Jews
after 2,700 years
after 2,700 years
Telegraph
With a cry of “Mazeltov” and a Rabbi’s congratulatory handshake, hundreds of tribal people from India’s north-east were formally converted to Judaism this week after being recognised as descendants of the 10 Lost Tribes exiled from Israel 2,700 years ago.
A rabbinical court, dispatched with the blessing of Israel’s Chief Rabbi, travelled 3,500 miles to Mizoram on India’s border with Burma to perform the conversions using a Mikvah – ritual bath – built specially for the purpose.
There were emotional scenes as the Oriental-looking hill people professed their faith, repeating the oath from Deuteronomy: “Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.”
After 55-year wait,
Jewish veteran to receive Medal of Honor
Jewish veteran to receive Medal of Honor
Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops late in World War II freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
A Hungarian Jew, Rubin immigrated to New York after the war, joined the Army and fought as an infantryman on the frontlines in the Korean War. In 1951, Chinese troops captured Cpl. Rubin and other U.S. soldiers and he became a prisoner of war for 2½ years.
Drawing from his experience at the Nazi concentration camp, Rubin daily risked his own life by stealing food from his captors and provided hope and crude medical care that kept more than 40 U.S. soldiers alive.
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