The Music Of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

Using the most modern method of recording, his recording device being the first such in the Holy Land, he found a group of Yemenite Jews to sing for him in return for payment.

The Nuremberg Photographer

Notwithstanding the tribunal’s strict imposition of restrictions on taking photographs... D’Addario proved to be incredibly prolific, as he took many thousands of amazingly sharp photographs in both monochrome and color.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Rivka Press Schwartz

The clerk in the registrar's office was having none of it. When she heard about the name I wanted to change, and why, she gave me a buck-up talk about having pride in my background (I had plenty, thank you), and not being worried about others' confusion.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Maayan Zik

This venture seems like an introvert dipping her toes in extroverted waters, trying new things she’d never imagine doing before. This experience brings her tremendous blessings.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Rachel Freier

As Jewish mothers, we should learn from our matriarchs to use the unique inner strength we possess. Inner strength based on binah yeseirah – divinely inspired intuition.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Bin Goldman

One of the key lessons that Rivka teaches us about leadership is the importance of balancing confidence and a willingness to push boundaries with considerations of morals and character.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Elli Fischer

I see a lot of my grandmother in my daughter, who is also a preschool teacher, and it is shaping her persona, too.

Dementia Diary – Chapter 18

Immediately after the nurses hooked Hubby up to all the monitors, he demanded to leave. He pulled out all the leads to the machines and became furious when no one would listen to him.

A Founding American Rabbi Of A Jewish Agricultural Society

By WWII, there were four synagogues – one still exists today – and a well maintained Jewish cemetery.

The Jewish Exile To Mauritius

After considering various sites in the Caribbean to deport the Holocaust survivors, including British Honduras, and Trinidad, the British decided to transfer them to Mauritius.

Word Prompt – KAVOD – Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz

True kavod habriyot is not about treating well those whom we know, or like, or feel comfortable with. It is about honoring the bit of the Divine inside every human being we encounter.

Word Prompt – KAVOD – Shani Taragin

Kavod, honor, respect and esteem judged by societal standards, is in fact taught by chazal, a value and sense of self-esteem bestowed by us to other creations of Hashem.

Word Prompt – KAVOD – Asher Yablok

Indeed, kavod is a two-way street. We often think of it as something we give though we receive much more from showing kavod.

Word Prompt – KAVOD – Shlomo Zuckier

Kavod means honor, but it means so much more. Related to the word kaved, or heavy, it refers to things that are weighty, that are deserving of our respect.

Word Prompt – KAVOD – Gershon Schusterman

Kavod has two translations: honor and respect, which are similar but distinct. That’s why everyone who is honored is respected but not everyone who is respected is honored.

Dementia Diary – Chapter 17

As a businessman with three retails stores in southern California for 21 years, Hubby always walked around with a substantial amount of cash on his person. The fact that he now walks nowhere unassisted does – not daunt his imagination with its delusions of freedom.

Rabbi Asher Anshel Ben Mordecai Ashkenazi

R. Asher Anshel ben Mordecai Ashkenazi (1833-1901) was a grandson of the renowned R. Moses David Ashkenazi (c. 1780–1856) who was born in Galicia where his father Asher served as rabbi.

Was T.S. Eliot An Antisemite?

Perhaps inexplicably, Eliot voiced support for the State of Israel and increasingly viewed Judaism as a paradigm for the survival of diverse religious cultures in an increasingly secular world.

Word Prompt – POLAND – Allison Josephs

We need to take these awful suggestions and use them to create enough fire in our bellies in order for us to do the exact opposite.

Word Prompt – POLAND – David Hoffman

If you ask me, it should be a wasteland for us.

Word Prompt – POLAND – Rabbi Dovid Cohen

I may have been too young to truly grasp the magnitude of the atrocities but I vividly see today, in my heart's mind, the pain and anguish that was.

Word Prompt – POLAND – Tuly Weisz

It is no coincidence that as the number of Holocaust survivors declines, anti-Semitism surges.

Word Prompt – POLAND – Akiva Kra

Well-known achronim, including Rav Chaim, the Netziv, Maharsham, and Tosfos Yom Tov are all buried there.

Rav Avrohom Aharon Freedman and Flora Sassoon

Flora Sassoon personally responded to all requests for financial assistance and helped to build a Jewish hospital in London in 1907.

Dementia Diary – Chapter 16

Eighteen pills in a day made it a tremendous challenge for the doctor to resolve Hubby’s problem which could have any of a number of root causes.

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