Baila Olidort
Director of Communications and Editor-in-Chief, Lubavitch International Magazine at Lubavitch News Service
Director of Communications at Chabad @lubavitch HQ. Editor-in-Chief, Lubavitch International Magazine. Views here are my own.
Articles
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Oct 8, 2024 |
lubavitch.com | Baila Olidort
It was a balmy spring day in Poland when I walked through the barracks and stood speechless at the ovens in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp some years ago. The earth outside was covered in a carpet of fresh green grass, as if to conceal what happened there, as if to silence the voices of the murdered millions who continue to call out. But I heard. “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!” thrummed in my head.
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Oct 1, 2024 |
lubavitch.com | Baila Olidort
We didn’t see it coming. The dark ages were well behind us. We could laugh incredulously at the old tropes and ugly stereotypes shamelessly used to taunt Jews. Things were different now, we were convinced. But one fine day, the veneer came off and we saw that we may just be living in a fool’s paradise. And Rabba bar bar Ḥana said: Once we were traveling on a ship and we saw a certain fish upon which sand had settled, and grass grew on it.
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May 8, 2024 |
lubavitch.com | Baila Olidort
On February 2, friends and family gathered at a shiva house to mourn the death of IDF Major Yitzhar Hoffman. Sitting among them was the celebrated Israeli singer and songwriter Hanan ben Ari, accompanying his soulful vocals on guitar. Hoffman, a father of two young children, was killed fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza. His young wife—sitting close to the ground in the manner of mourners, her face bowed—moved her lips to Hanan’s poignant lyrics as she sobbed silently.
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Apr 2, 2024 |
lubavitch.com | Baila Olidort
Millions of people have seen the video of Avinatan Or being taken hostage at the Nova Music Festival on October 7. He’s the thirty-one-year-old, handsome Israeli who, at six foot three, appears almost indifferent to the terrorists pushing and pulling him this way and that. His focus is turned to the pleading girl on the motorcycle crying out to him as terrorists ride off with her into Gaza.
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Jul 26, 2023 |
lubavitch.com | Baila Olidort |Sarah Ogince |Boruch Werdiger |Sarah Rindner
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These are the people of Israel, inspired by light and love in a world gone black with darkness and hate.
For the baby who never had a birthday. For the little Batman. For their Mom. https://t.co/q0NztJMz5S
How did these well fed, well clothed Gazans who were killed in Israel’s “genocide” come back from the dead to celebrate over the coffins of the Bibas children? You gotta wonder! https://t.co/GfE2ITXRhl
RT @LizaRosen0000: Watch: British TV host tells the Palestinian Muslims and their loyal useful idiots in the west to shove it: “You are evi…
