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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Bernard Dichek

Bernard Dichek

Anuar Jour had trouble creating following the October 7 atrocities. (Bernard Dichek)
May 12, 2024, 4:53 am
Displaced by war, Israeli artists are given a seaside studio refuge following Oct. 7
Providing living quarters and studios near the beach, the Old Jaffa Artists Residency sought to reignite smoldering creativity; the work that emerged has surprised even its makers
By Bernard Dichek
Policewoman Az-Oolay in Jerusalem. (Shai Kendler)
February 18, 2024, 4:30 pm
Send in the clown: A slap-happy ‘policewoman’ is a gas at Israel’s many protests
Hashoteret Az-Oolay doesn’t discriminate between causes or sides as she spreads smiles and a message of love at demonstrations of all kinds across the country
By Bernard Dichek
Dairy farm manager Gabo Altmark, a member of the Zikim civil guard, helped prevent Hamas terrorists from entering the kibbutz on October 7, pictured with Ghanian trainee Kwabena Frimpong on Kibbutz Zikim, December 2023. (Bernard Dichek)
January 13, 2024, 1:06 pm
Undeterred by Oct. 7 massacre, foreign interns keep Gaza-periphery dairy farms afloat
Agricultural students from Africa and Asia plant themselves on mostly-evacuated kibbutzim, helping to tend to the herds during a labor shortage
By Bernard Dichek
From left to right: Pinkus Schwarz, Maximillian Feuerring, Ewa Brzezinska and Hirsch Szylis outside Munich’s Lenbachhaus Municipal Art Gallery in 1948. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Jewish Museum Munich)
December 30, 2023, 2:44 am
Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust
‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war
By Bernard Dichek
Families of hostages held by Hamas marching toward Jerusalem on November 16, 2023. (Yael Gadot)
November 17, 2023, 1:41 pm
Angry hostage families march to Jerusalem, daring government to look them in the eyes
In a five-day trek from Tel Aviv that set out on Nov. 14, families draw strength and courage from each other, even as they still have no answer to when their loved ones will return
By Bernard Dichek
Artist Netta Lieber Sheffer paints in the square of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 26, 2023, as part of the This is Us project. (Bernard Dichek)
November 4, 2023, 9:34 am
In Tel Aviv, diverse mix of artists shines spotlight on Israeli hostages
From around the country, artists come to city’s museum square to paint victims held in Gaza, in the hopes of drumming up support — and one day gifting portraits to their subjects
By Bernard Dichek
Shoshan Haran hugs an Ethiopian farmer. (Fair Planet)
October 19, 2023, 9:55 am
Shoshan Haran, presumed captive, has dedicated her life to helping African farmers
Eschewing a high-paying job for one advancing farming in poor, arid countries, the noted agricultural expert has been missing since October 7, but family holds on to hope
By Bernard Dichek
Bad Reichenhall Mayor Christoph Lung (second from left) with a group of second-generation Holocaust survivors who came to see the Displaced Persons camps where their parents stayed in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, May 2022. (Alexander Vexler)
July 1, 2022, 10:15 pm
At former DP camps, children of survivors and Germans work through complicated pasts
Jews born in ashes of Holocaust visit picturesque towns where their parents saw postwar denazification of their persecutors’ society, find common bonds with Germans’ descendants
By Bernard Dichek
Dr. Samson Wamani (right) serving as mohel, performs a traditional Jewish circumcision. (Courtesy of Wamani)
November 13, 2021, 9:14 am
Where there is no doctor, Uganda’s 1st Jewish physician returns home to be one
Dr. Samson Wamani was head of the COVID-19 ward at a hospital in the capital Kampala before moving back to his hometown in the country’s east to help serve the area’s 2,500 Jews
By Bernard Dichek
Joseph Dichek, bottom row left, at the Bad Reichenhall, Germany, displaced persons camp after the Holocaust. (Courtesy Bernard Dichek)
January 27, 2021, 4:31 pm
Why a year after the Holocaust, my parents are happy in DP camp photos
Survivors were largely overlooked by post-war officials following the genocide. Unable to go to North America or Israel, Jews spent a few carefree years in idyllic settings
By Bernard Dichek
After the war Herman Likwornik returned to his hometown, which had become part of the USSR and was now known as Kalush. Photo taken in 1947. (Courtesy Victor Likwornik)
December 29, 2020, 3:52 am
Double tragedy: Survivor’s nephew uncovers fate of Polish Jews who fled to USSR
‘Deported. Exiled. Saved.’ uncovers dramatic new information with implications for descendants of the largest Polish survivor group — including the family of this writer
By Bernard Dichek
A photo from the collection of Julio Palencia and Zoe Dragoumis, who were stationed in eight different places around the world including Costa Rica, China, Morocco, South Africa, Turkey and Bulgaria between 1914-1943. (Courtesy Gennadius Library)
April 21, 2020, 10:24 pm
What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife
New evidence shows that Julio Palencia was likely influenced by his Greek spouse, Zoe Dragoumis, to issue last-minute passports, pull 150 off trains – and adopt two Jewish children
By Bernard Dichek
Exhibit photo of Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru wearing the 'Jaffa Sun' glasses he created as part of his ongoing C-Stunners series. (Courtesy of Serge Tiroche and the Africa First Collection)
September 6, 2019, 10:10 am
After Tel Aviv residency, African artists paint new picture of Israel back home
Tel Aviv art dealer Serge Tiroche brings artists from the developing world into the international spotlight by inviting rising stars to partake and reconceive of the Holy Land
By Bernard Dichek
A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
June 11, 2019, 2:35 am
Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz
75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British
By Bernard Dichek
An Ethiopian worshiper at the synagogue in Addis Ababa. (Bernard Dichek/ Times of Israel)
April 5, 2019, 10:53 am
Rabbi of 8,000 stranded Ethiopian Jews fights to complete their exodus
The Jewish Agency’s Menachem Waldman works to reunite generations of forcibly converted Jews with family who have been in Israel for up to 20 years
By Bernard Dichek
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