Isreali Explaining Chanukah

December 7, 2007 at 7:53 am | In Humor |  |  1 Comment

During Chanukah, Israeli’s eat powdered sugared jelly donuts known as sufganyiot. The video above gives a comprehensive history of why this is so.

Schindler’s List Maker Moves to Israel at 92

December 6, 2007 at 8:26 am | In Face to Face |  |  2 Comments

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Today’s Ynet brings us a pretty incredible story. Moving is always a giant pain, but to do it at the age of 92 is remarkable. However, we’d like to be the first to welcome Mimi to her new home. May she live another 92 years in the Holy Land.

Schindler’s secretary moves to Israel at 92

‘I feel at home,’ says Mimi Reinhardt upon landing in Tel Aviv over 60 years after she helped save hundreds of Polish Jews during Holocaust. Reinhardt joins her son, who has lived in Israel since the mid-70’s

The 92-year-old secretary of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, arrived in Israel on Monday to take up citizenship.

“I feel at home,” Mimi Reinhardt told reporters as she got off the plane at Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv.

Reinhardt was in charge of drawing up the lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto of the Polish city of Krakow who were recruited to work at Schindler’s factory, saving them from deportation to the death camps.

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Chanukah Recipe from Israel

December 4, 2007 at 1:57 pm | In Food & Drink |  |  1 Comment

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