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04/09/2013

Today in Jewish History: Buchenwald Liberated (1945)

The Buchenwald concentration camp was founded in 1937 near the town of Weimar, Germany. Approximately 250,000 prisoners were incarcerated in this camp until its liberation in 1945.

Weimar is a German city known for its highly cultured citizenry. It was the home of many of the upper class intellectual members of Europe’s society. Among others, Goethe, Schiller, Franz Liszt, and Bach lived in Weimar.

Though technically not an extermination camp, approximately 56,000 prisoners were murdered in Buchenwald (not including many others who died after being transferred to other extermination camps). They died from vicious medical experiments, summary executions, torture, beatings, starvation, and inhuman work conditions. The camp was also known for its brutality. German officers would force inmates to eat their meager soup ration off the mud on the ground; would keep them standing in the cold until they froze to death; and they would even use skin of dead inmates to make lamp shades.

On the 29th of Nissan 1945 the Sixth Armored Division of the United States Third Army liberated the camp.

Among the more famous inmates who spent time in Buchenwald are Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.

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09/11/2012

Ten years later, we look back at the 9/11 terror attacks and ask what we have learned as Jews, as Americans and as people.

03/12/2012

Continued rocket fire on Israel's south will keep many schools in the south closed for at least another day.

Beer Sheva, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Kiryat Malachi, and Ofakim, all announced their schools will remain closed on Tuesday.

Gan Yavne also announced there would be no school in Tuesday, but noted twelfth graders would learn in fortified rooms and special education children would be sent out of the settlement to schools more than 40 kilometers from Gaza.

However, the Negev Regional Council announced that kindergartens, elementary schools and high schools will be held tomorrow as usual. Middle schools will reportedly conduct classes via the Internet.

In addition, Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva announced there will be no classes or exams on Tuesday. University officials said the decision was made after discussions with officers from the IDF Home Front Command.

The university said public university students and employees would be sent safety guidelines via email, and that that the university Website would update them about changes to the curricula.

The announcements came as no fewer than 40 rockets rained down on Israel's southern communities. Most rockets were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket systems.

However, one rocket injured an 80 year old woman, who sustained light shrapnel injuries in her leg. She was taken to Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. An additional 13 people were treated for shock.

Throughout the morning hours terrorists fired volleys of Qassam rockets and mortar shells at communities in the Gaza belt region. Rockets exploded in open areas around Sderot and the Eshkol Regional Council and Hof Ashkelon.

Three mortar shells landed near the Kerem Shalom crossing. One struck a truck transferring aid supplies from Israel to Gaza. Following the attack the crossing was temporarily closed, but the Civil Administration has since ordered it reopened.

The school closures come as the Knesset's powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee called on the government to declare a "special situation" in Israel's south.

Doing so would allow the government to provide compensation to local families for costs incurred by the disruption of their daily lives by the escalated rocket fire, including lost pay due to remaining home with children whose schools are closed.

03/12/2012

Then this gal showed up on the hit TV show, The Big Bang Theory as a modest-dressing neurobiologist nerd. How she managed to convince the producers to let her character dress in a skirt that covers her knees is remarkable...

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