B'nai B'rith Magazine

1 week ago | bnaibrith.org | Juliet Norman

B’nai B’rith President Robert Spitzer and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:B’nai B’rith International—the world’s oldest and most widely known Jewish communal organization, with a presence across six continents—extends its warm wishes to our Catholic partners and friends around the world on the election of Pope Leo XIV.

2 weeks ago | bnaibrith.org | Juliet Norman

The late Joseph Wybran—Holocaust survivor, president of the B’nai B’rith lodge in Brussels and president of the Coordinating Council of Jewish Organizations in Belgium (CCOJB) when he was brutally murdered on Oct.

1 month ago | bnaibrith.org | Juliet Norman

The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold on Thursday, April 24, for the 23rd consecutive year, a joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This is the only Yom HaShoah event dedicated annually to commemorating the heroism of Jews who endangered their own lives to rescue fellow Jews during the Holocaust.

1 month ago | bnaibrith.org | Juliet Norman

Helena Merenholc (1907-1997, Poland) Merenholc was a psychologist who aided Jewish children and orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. In March 1943, she managed to escape from the ghetto with her mother and sister. Under a false identity, Merenholc helped Jews hidden by Żegota (Polish Council for Aid to Jews) by providing them with false documents and finding hiding places for them. After the war, Merenholc stayed in Poland and worked for the Central Committee of Jews as well as the Polish Radio.

1 month ago | bnaibrith.org | Juliet Norman

Anyone who has read about or looked at Judaica quickly realizes how little knowledge we possess about these artifacts, even after decades of serious research. This is due to a variety of factors, including the absence of records, the lack of stamps or hallmarks, the lost legacy of folk traditions, which ceased to be handed down to succeeding generations, the intentional destruction of artifacts during pogroms, and finally, what could not be saved during the Holocaust.