Jewish Friends: WWII Debt of Gratitude Is Paid in Kind
Jewish Home Admits Non-Jew Whose Wife Hid Refugees
The penalty for helping Jews escape the German Gestapo during World War II was death.But that did not stop Polish teen-ager Irene Opdyke from hiding 12 Jewish friends in the basement of a German officer's villa, where she worked as a housekeeper. She saved countless other Jews by sharing information she overheard from Gestapo officers planning roundups in Jewish communities.In gratitude to Opdyke, who is 68 and lives in Orange County, administrators at the Jewish Home for...
Jewish Friends: REACHING OUT TO OTHER FAITHS MUSLIMS INVITE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS TO JOIN IN OBSERVANCE OF RAMADAN
With Christian and Jewish friends watching, about 75 Muslims said prayers to break their daylong fast to observe Ramadan here yesterday in the upscale Ledgewood Clubhouse."Allah akbar," intoned Imam Fawaz Damra, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland. The words, which in English mean, "God is great," is one of regular phrases intoned during the prayers said by Muslims five times a day as they fulfill one of the five pillars of...
Jewish Friends: John Paul expresses sorrow for persecution,
Visit to Holocaust Memorial aims to reconcile faiths
JERUSALEM -- Pope John Paul II, uttering words both historic and personal in a dark, flame-lit hall at Israel's Holocaust Memorial, said Thursday that the Roman Catholic Church is "deeply saddened" by Christian persecution of Jews throughout history.The somber ceremony, attended by Israeli officials, Holocaust survivors and Jewish friends from the pope's own hometown in Poland, was punctuated by small, touching moments as well as grand...
HITLER'S ANTI-SEMITISM WAS PLOY, BOOK SUGGESTS GERMAN HISTORIAN CLAIMS YOUNG FUHRER HAD JEWISH FRIENDS, IDOLS DURING HIS 20S
From his earliest days, Adolf Hitler was a vicious anti-Semite whose overriding obsession was to exterminate the Jews of Germany and the rest of Europe - or so historians have long believed.The established view is that the man who was eventually responsible for the systematic killing of 6 million Jews during World War II was gripped by a boundless hatred of what he called the ``inferior Jewish race'' on whom he blamed virtually all the world's ills. But...
Jewish Friends: Jewish Families Unite to Share Culture
When Ilyssa Banhazl moved from Long Island to Glendora three years ago, it seemed like something was missing.Namely, the lively Jewish culture she had grown accustomed to in New York.Her search for an honest-to-goodness Jewish deli has been difficult, to put it mildly. For holidays, she finds herself heading toward Los Angeles' Fairfax District to buy items such as menorahs. And as for finding Jewish friends for her children to play with, forget it. Until now. Banhazl, 34,...