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Ohio Rabbi’s Books Tied to Holocaust Survivors

Rabbi Aryeh Kaltmann with his three sons, Yitzi, 19, Mendy, 16, and Shea, 14, in their Columbus, Ohio home.

As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud.

Pesach Chumros: Are Eggplants Chometz?

by Tamar Rotem – Haaretz

Books with pages spread wide open, perched on balcony railings and shedding imaginary crumbs of not-kosher-for Passover food. Shelves covered in new paper, and masses of aluminum foil on kitchen counters and the stovetop. Signs on doors warning “Do not bring in hametz” – referring to leavened products – with several exclamation marks. All of these were signs in my childhood that Passover was approaching. Above all I remember the near-hysteria that overtook the women and girls in the house, which mounted as the holiday grew nearer while they pursued to the death every stain and crumb.

Video: Australian Member Parliament Buys Chometz

Rabbi Pinchas Feldman, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Sydney Yeshiva Centre, sells chometz to David Clarke, the New South Wales Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Liberal Member of the Legislative Council.