World War II meets the Mount of Olives: The hidden history of June 30, 1942 timesofisrael.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesofisrael.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I found this sweet holiday folktale in the book "Time For My Soul," edited by Annette and Eugene Labovitz. It focuses on Rizhin, or Ruzhin, a town in the Ukraine, and its famous rebbe, Yisroel Friedman, who founded a Hasidic dynasty there in the early 19th century. Another historical figure, the Ropshitzer rebbe (Zvi, from Ropshitz, or Ropczyce, Poland), had created his own remarkable dynasty some years earlier. Here is my retelling.
NEW YORK The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus.
They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
NEW YORK (AP) The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020 thetelegraph.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraph.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.