Interestingly we don’t talk very much about Hassidic Dynasties in NYC other than Chabad. The other major dynasty is that of the Satmar’s. Their populations, in NYC, can be found in Williamsburg and Boro Park. Quick Facts: They originated from Hungary (and surrounding areas). They are Anti-Zionist….believe it or not. Tovább »
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הֶמְשֵׁכִיּוּתlisten to this word pronounced In honor of יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה (yohm hah-shoh-AH) – Holocaust Memorial Day… in reverence of the six million. My grandfather was one of many youth leaders in Budapest in 1948 who operated underground in a tireless effort to rescue Jews of Hungary from the grips of the Nazi expulsion and extermination. Tovább »
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Source: www.unwatch.org Voting YES to condemn Syria were: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Moldova, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA, Uruguay, and Zambia. Tovább »
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KATZ ETHEL Barylka Everything has a time in the sun. Time to study and time to remember. Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom HaShoah, is in my eyes one day of the report and not a day of study. On that day I can not even want to study or research. I want to join just the memory of the victims of my village. Tovább »
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My parents in the Valley of Destroyed Communities, Yad Vashem I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been asked, “What’s it like to be the child of Holocaust survivors?” The answer? I don’t really know. But, wow, do I have some stories! My father was from the small town of Nyirbator in Hungary. Tovább »
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Having a one month break in Israel has so far proved to be really really amazing.First I went to Budapest and Prague for nine days with two of my friends from the program. We had such an amazing time exploring and meeting new people. My favorite part of the whole trip though was for sure to be surrounded by people speaking Hungarian. Tovább »
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[Those of us of a certain age remember the stories of Diaspora Jewish women visiting Russia and smuggling documents, letters, etc, out hidden in their boots. Today may be the age of Facebook and Twitter messages flying around the world instantaneously, but sometimes it takes time for certain documents to come to life. Here is one example. Tovább »
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We had our Jewish Service Corps Mid-Year Seminar in Berlin two weeks ago. I took a week off beforehand to travel to some places I’ve always wanted to visit, like Prague and Vienna. I started in Budapest, took a bus to Vienna, then took a bus to Prague, where I met Sarah, a JSC fellow in Berlin. I picked 10 photos from each city (20 from Prague). Tovább »
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. Man you loved him a short time, for example, forty-five minute drive from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, can you say that he is such and such. But someone you loved him for a while, and even that was only the beginning of the season guava and persimmon season – do not have anything to tell him. Tovább »
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It was Jobbik leader Gabor Vona, whose party entered parliament last year for the first time with 12 percent of votes, who announced the channel’s launch. BUDAPEST (AFP)—A Hungarian online news channel backed by the extreme-right parliamentary party Jobbik paid tribute to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on his birthday, online observers reported. Tovább »
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Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was born in Budapest, Hungary, to an assimilated, middle-class family. An avid diarist from the age of 13 until her death, Hannah maintained a personal journal that reflected the literary talent she had inherited from her father, Bela, a playwright who died when she was six. Tovább »
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