History
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They left their homes in silence, under cover of darkness, driven by a single dream, only to meet tragedy at sea. In 1956, Morocco gained independence from France, and aliyah to Israel was officially forbidden. Between 1956 and 1961, Moroccan Jews immigrated clandestinely, aided mainly by the Jewish underground and the Israeli Mossad agency. Families […]
History
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When the Nazis came to power, they sought to make their country judenrein – free of Jews. At first, their plans did not involve mass murder. They would have happily allowed the Jews to emigrate to any country in the world that was willing to take them in. Unfortunately, most Jews had nowhere to go. […]
While returning to school from a class trip, a third-grade student from Yeshivat Noam in Paramus was severely injured when a rock was thrown at her school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the buses traveled near the Teaneck Road exit, a large rock shattered a window and struck the young girl in the […]
Growing up in Mexico City, Nesiah didn’t feel connected to any religion as a child. Her maternal grandparents practiced some Jewish traditions, her paternal grandparents were nominally Christian, but her own parents were secular. Nesiah sought spirituality through music and art. “Since I was six years old, I was doing music and dancing,” says Nesiah. […]
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Sitting down with Adina Shoshana, famously known as the Now Jewish Nanny, who shares the emotional story of her conversion to Judaism and her first visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
