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Video – Ben Nash, A Rising Star in Business World

By Greg David for Crain’s New York

By the standards of the Hasidic Chabad community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Ben Nash was a rebel. At yeshiva, he studied the Talmud to the exclusion of all other subjects. When he returned from two years of study in Europe, the 17-year-old dropped out of school, disenchanted with the curriculum.

“I was never good at following the rules,” he says.

Rabbi Lau: Ahmadinejad should visit Yad Vashem

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Participants arrive in death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the annual Holocaust remembrance at in Oswiecim on April 21, 2009 during the annual March of the Living. The annual March of the Living, which commemorates the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust was launched in 1988, drawing thousands of people from around the world, including Jewish youngsters and elderly Holocaust survivors. Organisers said half of the 8,000 people who had gathered this year were not Jewish. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

OSWIECIM, Poland [CHI] — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem in order to overcome his Shoah-denial, Rabbi Yisrael Lau said Tuesday during an emotional speech in Auschwitz.

Remembering Every Day

by Dvora Lakein – lubavtich.com

“They survived and gave us a future. We are here because of them,” explains Rabbi Tzvi Tauby. “Their sacrifices affect our lives every day.”

Communities in Israel and around the world are commemorating the deaths of six million Jews on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the steadily dwindling generation who survived those horrific years, Holocaust Remembrance is a daily experience.

Arutz7 Video – SS Guard Describes Treblinka Murders

SS guard Franz Suchamel attested to the Nazi murder machine which attempted genocide to annihilate the Jewish people.

He described the brutal transportation process which killed most of those brought into Treblinka. During the interview, which Suchomel did not know was being filmed, the SS soldier revealed in great detail the means necessary for killing thousands and the huge efforts that went into disposing of the bodies.

Fat People Blamed for Global Warming

By Patrick Sawer for the UK Telegraph

British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.

According to a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine this adds to food shortages and higher energy prices.