Ioannina lake, Greece. Credit dkilim/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Visiting Athens is the perfect excuse to take a trip to Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in Greece. Until recently, this destination would never have qualified for a weekend trip, as it took far to long to get there.However, thanks to new highways connecting Ioannina to Athens, it’s a…
Ioannina lake, Greece. Credit dkilim/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Visiting Athens is the perfect excuse to take a trip to Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in Greece. Until recently, this destination would never have qualified for a weekend trip, as it took far to long to get there.However, thanks to new highways connecting Ioannina to Athens, it’s a…
Susan Barocas
May 11, 2021
Growing up, the only way I celebrated Shavuot was at my temple’s religious school,when we’d memorize the Ten Commandments over and over each year. If we were lucky, there’d be an ice cream treat for snack, usually ice cream sandwiches, which I adored.
It wasn’t until my now almost 25-year-old son Sam started attending Jewish day school that Shavuot took on more observance and deeper meaning for me. Along with a friend and her son, we attended many traditional Shavuot-eve study sessions, often staying late into the night. Of course, our sons focused more on eating all the ice cream and cheesecake they could, but usually there were a few meaningful conversations mixed in.
Six prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month
Esther Cohen
(JTA) - The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust survivors who had dedicated much of their lives to educating others against hatred have died in Europe over the past month.
These are their stories.
Esther Cohen
One of only 160 people from her native Greek city of Ioannina who survived the genocide, Cohen died there on Tuesday at the age of 96. She had escaped the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and for years told high school students about her survival story in testimonies, TVXS reported.