Holocaust Memorial Day - Article added 27/01/2012

Every year on the 27th January we commemorate those who lived through the holocaust, those who survived and perished, and think about the atrocities occurring in the world today. It is a time to remember those who fought back and uprose against Nazi persecution in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond. It is a time to remember those who did not stand by and allow the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people. It is a time to be thankful for having a country for the Jewish people born out of destructive forces, in the shape of Israel. It is a time to ...
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Parashat Shemot - Article added 13/01/2012

The parasha this week engenders notions of leadership and inner strength and strife. During this period in the torah, the children of Israel are multiplying rapidly in Egypt. Pharaoh is threatened by their growing numbers and thus enslaves them; simultaneously ordering Hebrew midwives to kill all male babies at birth. When they do not comply he commands his people to cast the Hebrew babies into the Nile.

After this order, a child is born to a woman called Jechebed and she places the baby boy in a basket and sends him down the Nil...
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Hannukah - Article added 20/12/2011

Hanukkah, the festival of lights as it is commonly known (although the literal translation means dedication not lights), commemorates two extraneous events. The defeat of a superior Greek army by the miniscule Jewish maccabees and also the miracle of one drop of oil lasting eight days. Although these two events are commonly interlinked, they are irrelevant to the other. The original story of Hanukkah was about a small Jewish army who against all the odds defeated the ruling army of Greeks. This message of overcoming the odds to defeat an aggres...
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