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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Hashomer Hatzair

French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, right, his wife Beate, second from right, and French Holocaust survivors Edith Senot, third from left, and Ginette Kolinka, fifth from left, attend a gathering in the Paris Holocaust Memorial war of resurgent antisemitism linked to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, in Paris, November 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
November 18, 2023, 11:21 pm
French Holocaust survivors, youth activists rally against surging antisemitism
Esther Senot, 96, says Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas revived memories of the Holocaust, as she joins others in sounding alarm over wave of antisemitic incidents amid Israel-Hamas war
By Agencies
Staff and volunteers at the new community center run by Hashomer Hatzair in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 4, 2023. (Hashomer Hatzair)
April 11, 2023, 1:11 pm
Israeli youth movement opens kibbutz-style community center in war-torn Ukraine
Open to all of Kharkiv’s residents, the Asho Center features one of the bombed-out city’s few running kindergartens
By Canaan Lidor
The grave of Martin Davidovich, the man named by the Israel Defense Forces as the nation’s first fallen paratrooper, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, on October 28, 2021. (IDF)
October 28, 2021, 9:53 pm
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
Martin Davidovich (Courtesy)
October 23, 2021, 10:57 am
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper to be buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
Hedai Offaim (right), soon after the opening of Ofaimme in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem (Courtesy Hedai Offaim)
June 23, 2018, 8:53 am
At Offaimme, the food stays local even as the seed-to-table empire expands
Brothers Hedai and Yinon return to their pioneering roots with an organic, high-tech farm that supplies its own network of cafes and shops
By Jessica Steinberg
Jewish protesters outside an event featuring right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro at the Hebraica club in Rio, April 3, 2017. (Hebraica)
September 14, 2017, 11:10 pm
Leftist Jewish youth groups in Rio boycott Israeli folk dance festival
Chazit Hanoar, Habonim Dror and Hashomer Hatzair protest far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro’s talk at Rio Hebraica center
By Marcus M. Gilban
Undated photo of Bnei Akiva in Germany's winter camp (Bnei Akiva in Germany)
September 6, 2017, 7:09 pm
After 8 decades, Religious Zionist youth movement reopens in Germany
Bnei Akiva head says gaining charitable status is ‘another little victory over the Nazis and the new anti-Semites’
By JTA
Undated still from Camp Shomria on Lake Marie Road in Liberty, New York. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 2, 2017, 5:52 pm
Teen arrested in vandalism of upstate NY Jewish camp
Christopher Santoro, 18, charged with hate crime and burglary in connection with incident at Catskills youth site
By JTA
Israelis take cover in a street shelter as the Code Red alert sounds in Sderot, southern Israel, on the third day of Operation Protective Edge, Thursday July 10, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 22, 2015, 6:18 am
A year after war, Gaza border residents brace for next round
Southern frontier communities still coping with loss, say repeat of hostilities inevitable as long as Gaza remains unrehabilitated
By Avi Lewis
Haviva Reick (courtesy Return to the Burning House)
June 17, 2015, 9:22 pm
How a Holocaust heroine is finally written into the annals of history
In bringing to light overlooked stories such as that of Haviva Reick, New York’s Remember the Women Institute aims to rectify absence of women in recorded narrative
By Cathryn J. Prince
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)
October 21, 2013, 3:09 pm
Israel’s newest general, 100 years old, finally heals his wounds
For two-thirds of his long life, Yitzhak Pundak battled to restore the reputation of the defenders of Kibbutz Nitzanim in the War of Independence. Finally, as he neared his centenary, he succeeded, and a promise by Moshe Dayan was honored at long last
By Mitch Ginsburg
"I’ve learned more in the last four years than in my whole life," says Muslim-Jewish Conference founder Ilja Sichrovsky. (Courtesy of the Muslim-Jewish Conference)
August 26, 2013, 3:00 pm
Rapid worldwide growth for Jewish-Muslim alliance
In just a few years, international conference series has expanded to included hundreds of activists from dozens of countries
By Matt Lebovic
Ben Zygier's Australian passport (Screenshot Channel 10)
February 21, 2013, 1:21 am
Zygier case raises concerns of dual loyalty for Aussies
Prisoner X prompts some to ask whether Jews are loyal to Israel at the expense of their home country
By Dan Goldberg
The fate of three students in the first graduating class of Grodno’s Tarbut Gymnasium (pictured with six of their teachers and the principal) remains a mystery. (Courtesy of Ruth Marcus via JTA)
December 30, 2012, 5:03 pm
Class photo preserves links broken by the Holocaust
An Israeli retiree hopes to learn the fate of three students at a school in Grodno, whose Jewish community was largely scattered and destroyed
By Hillel Kuttler
Members of the Pollacseg family came together for a celebration in Budapest in 1939. Most died during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Hanna Nisman via JTA)
December 17, 2012, 3:27 am
Surprise! Israeli discovers her long-lost Christian cousin — in Oklahoma
How a bogus laxative, a century-old advertisement and a little luck connected an Auschwitz survivor with her previously unknown American family
By Hillel Kuttler
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