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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Romanian Jews

Left to right: Israeli Ambassador to Romania Reuven Azar, AUR party leader George Simion and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan meet at the Romanian parliament in Bucharest, August 28, 2023. (Courtesy: AUR)
August 28, 2023, 8:10 pm
Israeli envoy meets head of Romanian party accused of antisemitism, drawing rebuke
Foreign Ministry lifts ban on AUR party, which issues statement partly walking back glorification of fascists and objection to Holocaust studies; Yad Vashem: We weren’t consulted
By Michael Bachner and Lazar Berman
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a Knesset committee hearing, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 6:57 pm
Foreign minister denies lifting ban on Romanian party accused of antisemitism
But Eli Cohen acknowledges assessing whether the Alliance for the Union of Romanians has undergone ‘a real change that will open the door for Israel to revisit its boycott’
By Lazar Berman
Michael Shafir in a 2011 interview. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 24, 2022, 10:11 am
Michael Shafir, scholar who wrote ‘encyclopedia’ of Holocaust denial, dies at 78
Israeli-Romanian researcher, who played key role in Holocaust memory in the former Soviet country, is remembered for his straightforward, humorous presentation of difficult truths
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
A rabbi checks the quality of poultry meat in a kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
November 16, 2022, 3:13 am
Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing right to kosher slaughter
Conference of European Rabbis hails legislation as a model for other European countries amid battle over ritual killing of animals on continent
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Iosefin Synagogue in Timisoara, Romania, as seen on a new website opening doors to historical synagogues in Romania's Banat region. (Sebastian Puraci/Asociația Pantograf/ via JTA)
November 8, 2022, 2:38 am
Romania’s ornate and sometimes crumbling synagogues get new access via virtual tours
Through the Stories of the Synagogues website, visitors can view the beautiful houses of worship that stand where few, if any, of their previous congregants remain
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Rabbi Sorin Rosen is Romania's youngest-ever chief rabbi. (Courtesy of Rabbi Sorin Rosen/ via JTA)
September 6, 2022, 9:47 pm
Rabbi spends 7 years translating the Torah into Romanian
With an eye on translating the entire Bible, Rabbi Sorin Rosen is taking a moment to appreciate the texts that are already changing the way Romanian Jews engage with tradition
By Aviva Engel
Israeli Ambassador to Romania David Saranga (right) and Romanian Rear Admiral Mihai Panait attend a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the drowning of the Struma ship on that event's 80th anniversary in Constanţa, Romania, on February 22, 2022. (Courtesy of the Israeli embassy in Romania via JTA)
February 23, 2022, 1:10 pm
For 1st time, Romania commemorates Holocaust refugees who died when Struma torpedoed
Ceremony held to honor the estimated 779 Jews killed when ship was mistaken by Red Army submarine for a hostile vessel; only 1 survived the 1941 attack
By Cnaan Liphshiz
iviu Beris visits a Holocaust memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 8, 2009. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)
January 29, 2022, 6:42 am
Liviu Beris, Romanian Holocaust survivor who became a genetics pioneer, dies at 93
Beris tirelessly shared his personal story with younger generations and famously debated an antisemite on live TV
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
From 'Beyond the Ashes' by artist Beverly-Jane Stewart at the Yad LaBanim House in Rishon Lezion, for International Holocaust Day 2022 (Courtesy Duncan Phillips)
January 27, 2022, 5:13 pm
2 solo exhibits look back on Jewish communities lost to Holocaust
Works by British artist Beverly Jane Stewart represent Romanian Jewry and European synagogues, in Tel Aviv and Rishon Lezion, respectively
By Jessica Steinberg
Jews visit the graves of relatives killed in the Holocaust during World War II, in the Romanian city of Lasi, November 28, 2012 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 8, 2022, 7:54 am
Right-wing Romanian political party calls Holocaust education a ‘minor topic’
Populist AUR says subjects such as national history have been relegated in schools in its favor; statement draws criticism from Israeli ambassador, watchdogs
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Romanian gendarmes and local collaborators deport Jews from Bricevas in 1941, with rabbi Dov Beri Yechiel at the head (public domain)
January 1, 2022, 12:35 pm
Romania’s ‘homegrown’ Holocaust: 80 years since forgotten Bogdanovka massacre
In the final days of 1941, Romanian authorities massacred 40,000 Jews in a chapter of the genocide in which 420,000 Jews were killed in ‘broad daylight’ with collaborators’ help
By Matt Lebovic
Samuel del Campo was stationed in Romania during World War II and issued passports to Jews before they were deported to Nazi camps. (Yad Vashem via JTA)
December 30, 2021, 3:26 pm
Romanian ceremony honors Chilean diplomat who saved over 1,200 Jews in Holocaust
Event pays tribute to Samuel del Campo, who issued passports to Polish and Romanian Jews in the Chernivtsi ghetto, giving them protection from Nazi deportation
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Katia Pascariu in 'Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn.' (Magnolia Pictures/ via JTA)
November 28, 2021, 4:13 am
Lauded indie film uses porn to launch a discussion on Jewish persecution in Romania
In Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging,’ a teacher’s online sex clip gets parents riled up, and they soon let the worst fly in a cartoonish indictment of society
By Andrew Lapin
Jews visit the graves of relatives killed in the Holocaust during World War II, in the Romanian city of Lasi, November 28, 2012 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
November 18, 2021, 2:42 pm
Romania makes Holocaust education mandatory in all high schools
Law to come into effect in 2023; nationalist lawmaker says legislation is unnecessary, falsely claiming Romania hasn’t seen a single ‘serious antisemitic case’ in 20 years
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Aurel Vainer during a ceremony with children at Bucharest's Choral Temple (Facebook via JTA)
November 3, 2021, 8:11 am
Romania’s Jewish community leader, politician Aurel Vainer dies at 89
Vainer was in charge of shrinking community, along with 86 synagogues and over 850 cemeteries; established warm relationships across political parties
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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