(Photo credit Wikipedia) According to David Roet, Israel’s ambassador to Austria with whom we met tonight, today there are some 20,000 Jews in Austria, a combination of Israeli emigres, Jews from the former Soviet Union, and the remnants of the prewar community. There are Jewish schools and Kosher restaurants. And Austria has been one of […]
(picture credit Wikipedia) This year’s JUF Nachshon mission begins in Vienna, a city with a Jewish history going back to the 12th century. In the early 20th century, around 200,000 Jews lived here, about 1/10th of the city’s population. During the Holocaust, the Nazis decimated Austria’s Jewish community, leaving only a few thousand here after […]
I didn’t write a post yesterday. Please forgive me. We spent nearly the whole day in Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was not yet able to put anything into words but I will soon. I will share a pair of stories that bring home for me the layers of history, conflict, and geography I have experienced this week. […]
Today we “visited” the Jewish communities of Lublin, Kazimierz, and Sandomierz. I put “visit” in quotes because all that’s left of Jewish life in these places are plaques and cemeteries. But even these stone markers attest to the rich Jewish life that once thrived here. I asked Rabbi Poupko if he thought all that existed […]
In just over 24 hours so far in Poland, I have visited dozens of sites that attest to both the majestic Jewish civilization that flourished here for hundreds of years, and its brutal annihilation over a few short months. In Treblinka, I walked the same steps hundreds of thousands of Jews from across Europe walked […]
Dear CBS Family, For the past few days I have had the privilege to be in Israel on a solidarity mission with JUF. Along with leaders from Chicago’s Jewish community (including some Beth Shalom members!) I am here to see firsthand the impact that Oct. 7 and the subsequent war has had on the country. […]
I never saw this trip on my bingo card of life but I’m so grateful it magically appeared and that I took advantage of the opportunity to participate. It was educational, eye opening, and emotional that I can sum up with the following two thoughts: 1) Sadly, the more things change the more things stay […]
I never saw this trip on my bingo card of life but I’m so grateful it magically appeared and that I took advantage of the opportunity to participate. It was educational, eye opening, and emotional that I can sum up with the following two thoughts: 1) Sadly, the more things change the more things stay […]
One of the many travesties of justice we learned about on this trip were the bombings — bombings of homes, of Freedom Rider busses, and of Black churches, including the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963 perpetrated by white supremacists that murdered four little girls. Their names were Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, […]
So I have to say that this trip and the previous CIVIL RIGHTS TRIP that I took with Beth Shalom has sent me back to my late high school and early college days… the civil rights movement encompassed my being and greatly influenced the way I saw life- mine and that of others, especially the […]
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