Yom HaShoah
A selection of responsa from Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, the spiritual leader of the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust.
“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration…
As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish…
I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.
In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get…
By Avraham Rosen Digitally adjusted image of the calendar Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, author of Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata, created when he…
Though James G. McDonald strove to save German Jews from the Nazi menace and contributed significantly to laying the groundwork…
Before we light the Shabbos candles, she puts my hair up into a braid: / She pulls the chestnut sections…
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, better known as the Maharil, lived in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in…
In the years following the Holocaust, survivors were, for the most part, silent about the devastation of European Jewry.…
Warsaw Photo: Ahron D. Weiner/www.ahronphoto.com The big news in Krakow’s Jewish community last year didn’t make the news. A young…
