By Barry Rubin RIGA, Latvia — I’m in Riga, Latvia today, where my grandfather was born and my great-grandparents lived. It is a charming city and I hope to write more about it later. But I wanted to share with you a little story that you might find relevant. Whether or not you know it, [...]
By Rabbi Menachem BarkahanRIGA, Latvia — Here are some of the highlights of 2010 for Shamir, the Jewish community of Latvia: The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum were opened in September 2010 http://www.rgm.lv/?lang=en The Second International Festival of Jewish culture gathered more than 4, 000 visitors for 10 events in Latvia and Lithuania, including international celebrities [...]
By Franklin Gaylis SAN DIEGO — Several thousand years of Jewish history has been extremely well documented. What about our personal family’s history over the past few hundred years? This is the question I asked myself when our children were born in the USA after my wife Jean, and I emigrated in 1982 from South [...]
RIGA, Latvia (Press Release)–On July 04, 2010, the Holocaust Memorial day in Latvia more than 500 people participated in the memorial march “Steps for Life”. The event was organised by religious community “Shamir” in co-operation with the World Congress of Russian Jewry and the Jewish Community Council of Europe. Members of Jewish communities of Latvia, [...]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Young playwrights Ali Viterbi, Leah Salovey and Sarah Price-Keating–saluted six San Diego “women of valor” in a Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival production on Sunday in which they and other talented actresses portrayed the women in six successive 10-minute segments. The composite sketch of female Jewry of San Diego celebrated [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday praised the countries whose delegates walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at a United Nations conference after he accused the U.S., Israel and an unspecified European country of threatening Iran with nuclear weapons. The Iranian president was delivering remarks to the Non-Proliferation Treaty [...]
