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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

Bernard Dichek

Bernard Dichek

A poster memorializing Nirel Zini and Niv Raviv hangs outside the house where they lived in a neighborhood for young families at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, February 2025. (Bernard Dichek)
March 19, 2025, 4:34 am
Killed on Oct. 7, a modern-day Israeli Romeo and Juliet unite their families — and nation
The new Niv Nirel Center realizes the vision of Nirel Zini and Niv Raviv, who came from families on the opposite sides of the religious spectrum and together wanted to help society
By Bernard Dichek
Members of the Bricha descendants group pose at the Bad Reichenhall army base, which was turned into a Jewish DP camp called Camp Tikwah. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 9:30 pm
Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel
Children of Jews who secretly traveled to the Jewish homeland with the ‘Bricha’ movement, some of whom were born along the way, revisit the long route and uncover buried histories
By Bernard Dichek
Joanna Chen, Dua, and Rokia Abu Shakha, at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. (Bernard Dichek)
January 16, 2025, 7:53 am
Hamas killed 6 of them on Oct. 7. Why these Israelis still drive Palestinians to hospitals
Road for Recovery program, launched in 2010 with donation by Leonard Cohen, now concentrates on bringing West Bank Palestinians to Israeli medical centers for lifesaving treatment
By 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
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