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Anne Frank: I Still Believe
That’s the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.38It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by donna leventhal -
Readings on Freedom
They marched us down the length of Pozohony Street, toward the Margaret bridge and that was when we understood they were bringing us to the edge of the Danube, where they would shoot us and leave us to die under the ice. Whe ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Calev Ben Dor -
The Unbreakable Soul of Passov
by Sam GlaserThis Rosh Chodesh Nissan I had the pleasure of culminating my eight-day tour of Florida with a Shabbaton in Cooper City, just north of Miami. Just before launching int ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Sam Glaser -
The Past Is Never Far Away
FROM THE ROSENBERG HOLOCAUST SIDDUR. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG "These bitter herbs which we eat, what is their meaning? They are eaten to recall that the Egyptians embittered the lives of our forefathers in Egypt." & ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg -
A Child of Survivors Speaks O
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg In the Haggadah it states, " It is our duty to thank and to praise in song and prayer, to glorify and extol Hi ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg -
They Went Like Sheep to the S
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg As a child of survivors of the Nazi death camps who has published extensive articles and editorials regarding the Holo ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg -
What Have I Learned This Year
The Haggadah tells us, "In every generation they rise against us and seek our destruction." Remember and learn from the past To me, ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg -
This is Your Heritage
In the Haggadah it says, "And the Egyptians did evil to us and they made us suffer. They set upon us hard work." This is the story of how the Nazis, like the Egyptians, were taskmasters over your grandparents. &nb ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg -
WHERE WAS GOD IN THE HOLOCAUS
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This is Your Heritage
During the seder a story of the families heritage would be recited. For example, this is a letter I sent to my youngest son, Ari, 18, who is a student at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion in Israel. He went on the Heritage Tou ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Bernhard Rosenberg -
THE PHOTOGRAPH, 1945
Time has not dulled its shock. More than half a century has passed Since first I came upon the image. And still I see it in my mind’s eye, And freshly feel it stab my once-young soul, grown old. Glasses. A mountain of eye ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Bernhard Rosenberg -
Memorial Prayer For Victims Of
In the 1950's, the American Jewish Congress established the Seder Ritual Committee to compose and to distribute a memorial prayer for the victims of the Holocaust to be recited at ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Abe Katz
