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Mrs. Shule Kazen was hoping to finally settle down.
Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to join 30,000 other Jewish teens and embark on a journey that would prove to be a trip that would be forever embedded in my heart, mind and soul.
On behalf of the Laurel School community, we express our deep sadness on the passing of Stanley Bernath on March 26.
While the day designated on the Jewish calendar as Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 27th of Nisan, which this year corresponds with May 2, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day established by the United Nations is Jan. 27. Even as each of the days is meant to recall th…
Cleveland Heights High School’s annual trip to African-American Museum of History and Culture and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is always an important event for
Szarvas Camp was established in 1990 after the fall of Communism. The camp was founded by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, an organization committed to reviving Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Being such, the camp’s intention was – and still is – to revive European Jewry after the…
Recently at our Shabbat table, while playing Jewish geography, one of our guests said he remembered Rabbi Zalman Kazen, and was excited to learn he was my wife’s grandfather. He told us that in 1972, when he was 5 years old, his family immigrated to Cleveland from the former Soviet Union.
Let’s just say that India is not high on the bucket list of those who enjoy traveling.
What made our trip to Spain so special?
Inspired by his mentor, Cleveland Heights Holocaust educator Leatrice Rabinsky, Rabbi Gary Robuck inaugurated the Face to Face Holocaust education program in 1994. Little did he imagine that today the program would be in its 24th year and welcoming its 50,000th student. On Oct. 31, we reache…
The archway at the entrance of Camp Wise in Claridon Township contains a simple yet powerful phrase: “Our past paves the way to our future.” The words are hard to miss and during our summers at camp, we took the message to heart.
What’s one of the most common reasons people attended the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies recent annual conference at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Fla.? Not surprisingly, “getting through a brick wall” in one’s own family genealogy search is the …
