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(Courtesy: UJA Federation of Greater Toronto) What can one do when the Ukraine, cradle of Hasidism and fertile soil for the Haskalah movement, has beckoned […]

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1856-1943 (Courtesy: Rabbi Geoffrey Shisler) Jacob Samuel Maragovsky was named ‘Zeidel’ by his mother, Sarah, for his late grandfather, and eventually served as Chazan in […]

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Playing soccer with the Nazis                                                    (Courtesy: Tony Taylor) Soccer games can end in disappointment, but seldom in real tragedy. In 1941, however, a game […]

HE TRUSTED PROVIDENCE  Servant of God Wladyslaw Bukowinski (born on Dec 22, 1904 in Berdyczow – died in 1974 in Karaganda). A Polish catholic priest, […]

(Courtesy: Judith Z. Abrams, 2008) For some time now (several years), I have felt that God has been knocking on my forehead, so to speak, […]

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(Courtesy: Vitali Charny/JewishGen) The following list is a translation of names and minimal personal data for 8,500 people included in Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia (Rossiyskaya […]

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