On the morning of International Holocaust Remembrance Day today, Wednesday 27 January / 14 Shvat, President of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin spoke with the President of Germany, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier. During their conversation, President Rivlin said, “Last year, we marked the day together in our historic journey from Jerusalem, to Auschwitz and then to Berlin. The coronavirus pandemic has forced us all to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day differently this year. Each leader is in his own country, but the message of shared commitment to remembering the Holocaust and its lessons are as strong and determined as ever. Your clear and correct words last year, opposing racism and antisemitism wherever they raise their heads are deep in the hearts of the Israeli people and I t...
Whoever has enough to eat today and says, ‘What shall I eat tomorrow?’ is a person of little faith.                                                                                                                   &nb...
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 26, 2021 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of Rosa Levin, a’h, wife of Eugene Levin, mother of Shevi Levin Gropper (443.854.0441)and Yael Zacharin* and sister of Ella Zilbermintz. Shiva is being observed through Sunday morning, Jan 31, at 6947 Ten Timbers Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21209 Masks & Social Distancing*Mrs. Aitan (Yael) Zacharin is sitting shivah in Eretz Yisrael. She can be reached by calling on WhatsApp 410-404-9220. Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
Jerusalem, Israel - Jan. 27, 2021 - January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date in 1945 of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on November 1, 2005.     #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay This year multiple online commemorations. #WeRemember #NeverAgain
Jerusalem, Israel - Jan. 27, 2021 - During World War II the city of Leningrad (St Petersburg) was under siege from September 1941 to January 27, 1944. Remember last year the huge white security tents covering the new monument to be dedicated with Putin in attendance? Today, January 27, 2021, The Candle Monument dedicated to the Jews who perished and Red Army soldiers in Gan Sacher stands across from the Israeli Supreme Court Building. Final touches to the monument and landscaping appear completed. Memorial stones and new flowers left at the base.
U.S. equity markets were under pressure Wednesday morning as investors digested an onslaught of earnings reports ahead of the Federal Reserve's first interest rate decision of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 357 points, or 1.16%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were down 1.26% and 1.38%, respectively. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Looking at stocks, Dow component Boeing Co. lost a record $11.9 billion in 2020 as the company’s bottom line suffered due to the pandemic and the grounding of the 737 Max jet. The planemaker said the debut...
There are an estimated 180,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel When the face of 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Naomie Lichthaus appeared on their screen, the staff at the call center of Israel's Yad Ezer La-Haver foundation were ready to respond. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens The foundation established by Shimon Shabag in the northern port city of Haifa in 2001 has been supporting survivors of the Nazis for two decades but its mission has expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, 76 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at A...
Users will see a box labeled 'Learning About the Holocaust' when they search for related terms Internet users who search for information about the Holocaust on Facebook will now be prompted to visit a website on the attempted annihilation curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, reported The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Starting Wednesday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, users will see a box labeled “Learning About the Holocaust&rdqu...
White House says parties 'urgently' working to extend treaty before February 5 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the lower house State Duma on Tuesday to extend a US-Russia nuclear agreement by five years. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Putin spoke earlier in the day with President Joe Biden, agreeing “in principle” to continue with the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) pact struck in 2010. The deal limits the number of nuclear warheads deployed by Moscow and Washington to 1,550. “On January 26, 2021, Russia and the United S...
Wednesday overflight makes for sixth show of force involving heavy bomber since November A US B-52 heavy bomber flew over the Persian Gulf, the US military said on Wednesday, in the sixth such flight since November 2020 -- and the third this year. The flight, which was also the first to be carried out under US President Joe Biden, was designed to "deter possible aggression," the Pentagon added. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens The aircraft took off from the Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and flew over both the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, US media report. Publishing im...
Baltimore, MD  - Some residents in Baltimore City could be finding it difficult to register for an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine. Maryland has moved on to Phase 1C of the vaccination plan, which includes anyone 65 years and over, as well as certain essential workers like grocery store staff, transit and US postal workers. If you live in the city, you can go to the city health department’s website to register for appointments to get the vaccine. During a virtual update on the city’s response to Covid19 Monday, Mayor Brandon Scott said the city’s Maryland Access Point hotline or MAP, is in place to help older residents who don’t have access to the Internet register for the vaccine. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engageme...
Tehran is ready and willing to defend itself, a top Iranian official said Wednesday A top Iranian official Wednesday said arch-foe Israel was waging a "psychological war" after the Jewish state's army said new "offensive options" were being drawn up in case they were needed against the Islamic republic. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Mahmoud Vaezi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff, also vowed that his country was ready and willing to defend itself. "We have no intention of going to war, but we are serious about defending the country," he said. Read more at i24...
With an average age of 85, some 140,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel today Nearly 17,000 Holocaust survivors died in 2020, with 900 of the fatalities being attributed directly to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.    The annual report is traditionally published on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  According to the bureau, the death rate stands at 17 percent while nearly 5,300 survivors have been infected by COVID-19, a percentage similar to that of the general population in the same age group (16%). Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here ...
'We stand united in our shared commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and fighting antisemitism' Israeli President Reuven Rivlin along with his German and European Council counterparts issued a joint statement on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.  “We stand united in our shared commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and fighting antisemitism," the joint declaration states Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens "We pay tribute to the survivors. Their ...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of the Trump administration’s cutoff and a key element of its new support for a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Acting U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills made the announcement of Biden’s approach to a high-level virtual Security Council meeting, saying the new U.S. administration believes this “remains the best way to ensure Israel’s future as a democratic and Jewish state while upholding the Palestinians’ legitimate aspirations for a state of their own and to live with dignity and security.” Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL...
The ballad, A Shtikela Broite (a little piece of bread), was written by Prof. Zehavit Gross for her young grandson in order to tell him the story of his great-grandfather. She says: "For many years my late father, Zvi Brenner, a Holocaust survivor from Transnistria in Eastern Europe, was silent but when he started talking he told one story which was so difficult to listen and comprehend, but I absorbed it and now I pass it on to you." Prof. Zehavit Gross, a renowned international expert in Holocaust education and research, is Head of the UNESCO Chair and the Sal Gelder Center for Holocaust Research and Instruction at Bar-Ilan University. English:   Hebrew: Yiddish: This ballad is dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust and commemorates the one and a half million Jewish child...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out its use of private prisons. The executive order, signed alongside three others as part of an effort to address racial inequality, largely returns the department to the policy adopted under the Obama administration. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the federal government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” Biden wrote in the order. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens The order dire...
Biden administration will also boost supply of coronavirus vaccines sent to states by about 16% for next three weeks WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Tuesday said it would boost the supply of coronavirus vaccines sent to states by about 16% for the next three weeks and will purchase enough additional doses to vaccinate most of the U.S. population with a two-dose regimen by the end of the summer. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Senior administration officials said the federal government is working to purchase an additional 100 million doses each of the Pfizer&n...
A newly released study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows COVID-19 spread in schools appears to be low, suggesting in-person learning might be safe if proper procedures are in place. The study, released Tuesday, was made among 17 rural Wisconsin schools, grades K-12, from Aug. 31-Nov. 29. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens During the survey period, teachers reported more than 92% of students wore masks, groups of students were limited to 11-20, staff kept a distance of at least 6 feet when possible, and staff and students quarantined after exposure. During the 1...
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