Ratner and his cousin Dennis Ratner were also the founders, in 1985, of the Israel Bible Museum in Safed, since relocated to Beersheba.
The goal is to create a large, authoritative database encompassing the entirety of evidence, documentation, media coverage, and outreach activities, for the benefit of Jewish communal memory.
Taking the long view of Jewish history mustn’t distract us from present and immediate challenges, but it should provide optimism even during dark moments.
Others have tried to put the death toll — now at 700 soldiers and civilians — in perspective by setting it against a far bloodier tragedy: the Holocaust.
What could this mean for whole communities of Jews, and what is the implication of being unprotected?
Living in Israel provides a front-row seat to Jewish destiny. The future of the Jewish people is being shaped by Israeli Jews.
While the Sephardic communal standard follows the norms of Jewish law, individual practice is varied but accepted.
A reviewer and an audience should take into account the whole production. All roads did not lead to Auschwitz.
The synagogue was inaugurated after undergoing a massive renovation.
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