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In two and a half weeks, a group of young Jews will spend Shabbat in Auschwitz. That opening line is nearly impossible to comprehend, and does not refer to a visit to a concentration camp. It is the first attempt since the onset of World War II to revive Jewish life, in what was once a mainly Jewish town with a name that will be linked forever to one of the great tragedies of Jewish history.
29 April, 2008
ORGANISED AND CONDUCTED BY SHAVEI ISRAEL ORGANIZATION FROM 23RD ADAR RISHON(28/02/08) TO 16TH ADAR SHENI(23/03/08) AT DHULIKHEL,NEPAL According to Jewish traditional teaching, when the month of Adar begins, the happiness of the Jews is much greater. The month of Adar is a symbol of joy for the Jews. And certainly this year the joy of Adar is explicitly display in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal.
03 April, 2008
Nearly 70 years after its demise, the Rabbinical Association of Poland was relaunched over the weekend at a ceremony in Lodz attended by Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger. Metzger signed a special scroll together with Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and other community rabbis serving in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Lodz declaring the formal reestablishment of the group, which prior to the Holocaust had united all of Poland's rabbis.
26 February, 2008
LOS JUDÍOS DE MI MUNDO ¿En qué lugar del Nuevo Mundo se construyó la primera sinagoga, después del descubrimiento de América? Cuando oímos hablar de Brasil pensamos en el fútbol, el carnaval, las playas y la música, pero olvidamos que fue también la puerta de acceso de judíos al Nuevo Mundo. La primera sinagoga en suelo americano se construyó en la ciudad de Recife, Brasil, en 1636.

25 February, 2008
Ha'aretz, February 24, 2008 Before learning about his Jewish roots, Pinchas Zlotosvsky from Poland was a skinhead with uncompromising contempt for Jews, the 32-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew told Haaretz last weekend during Shavei Israel's annual conference for hidden Jews in Lodz.

24 February, 2008
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