The story of Przemyslaw Isroel (or Israel) Szpilman’s efforts to reconstruct 250,000 records of burials at the historic Jewish cemetery in Poland has received extensive coverage due to a recent Associated Press report. Szpilman has so far reconstituted 60,000 records.
What the other stories have not given you is (more…)
Categories: Europeans
Tagged: beis-olam, beit-olam, cemetery, poland, warsaw
Obituaries
Samuel Steinfeld, 101, U.S., lawyer, state chief justice, Nov. 22
Sarit Weiss, 23, Israel, possible alcohol overdose, Nov. 23
Claire Flom, 82, U.S., philanthropist, Nov. 24
Herb Strauss, 78, U.S., ad exec, cantor, fund-raiser, Nov. 25
Mel Tolkin, 94, U.S., pioneering TV comedy writer, Nov. 26 (more…)
Categories: Americans · Artists · Businesspeople · Celebrities · Europeans · Hollywood · Holocaust Victims · Israelis · Philanthropists · Veterans · Writers
Tagged: caesar, cemetery, Inquisition, Jewish, obituaries, tv
“I can’t begin to describe what I feel. Extreme anger. Helplessness. I don’t understand. Clearly people don’t understand the concept of the holy word.”
- Neil Noble, Vice President, B’nai Israel Congregation, founded 1873, oldest continually operated modern Orthodox synagogue in Maryland.
See another report (with more video) from the Baltimore Sun.
Categories: Americans · Holocaust Victims · Television
Tagged: baltimore, cemetery, maryland, orthodox, synagogue, vandal
