Levitt Letter Extra News

By: Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org The ceremony included the lighting of six torches, each one honoring a different group of Holocaust heroes. On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries…

By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com A lone gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San Diego Saturday and opened fire on Jews celebrating the last day of Passover.  He killed one woman and wounded several others. For one family, this was not their first encounter with terrorism. The Dahan family left their…

By: Raymond Ibrahim – raymondibrahim.com Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, throughout World War I.  Then, in an attempt to wipe out as many Christians as possible, the Turks massacred approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000…

cbsnews.com Middlebury, Vt. — A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence, Middlebury College said. The Vermont liberal arts college said that it’s investigating under the terms of its faculty misconduct policy.…

By: Times of Israel Staff – timesofisrael.com Throngs of Jewish worshipers make traditional Passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem for semiannual ceremony held under heavy security https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-gather-at-western-wall-for-priestly-blessing/

By: Joan Nathan; New York Times-nytimes.com And the family’s personal recipe, so you can make it yourself. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/dining/golds-horseradish-recipe.html