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He is raised by Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel in an Orthodox Jewish community. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea and a younger Sister, Tsiporah. He was influenced by the religious believes of his grandmother, he pursued religious studies at a yeshiva at a young age. In March 1944, his family was captured and sent to a Jewish ghetto where he lived until May then they were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, where Wiesel and his father were forced into slave labor and his mother and…

Barbara Streisand is an American, songwriter, singer, actress, and filmmaker.. Barbara Joan Streisand AKA “Barbara Streisand” was born April 24th, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York the 2nd child to Jewish parents Diana and Emanuel Streisand. Her mother was a school secretary and her father was a teacher at the same exact High School where they first met. In August 1943 only a little bit after her 1st birthday her father died of multiple complications from an epileptic seizure at the age of 34. The…

Did you know that Holocaust means a mass slaughter of people or a sacrifice consumed by fire! (Merriam-Webster) The Holocaust started on January 30,1933 and finally ended on May 8, 1945. ( The Holocaust and World War II ) The Nuremberg Laws made it so German Jews were no longer German citizens. Separated the Jewish part Jewish and or Aryan. Kristallnacht also known as “The Night of Broken Glass” This event lasted 2 days over 7500 Jewish shops were looted. 119 synagogues were set on fire…

scare and how it cost many people their jobs. The article provided me with lots of information and a good general idea on the topic of McCarthyism. The value of this article is very good because it was written by Ellen Schrecker. She is a teacher at Yeshiva university, a writer of a book about McCarthyism. Second Choice:…

After Kooks death is 1935, Zvi took over as Rosh-Yeshiva of Mercaz Ha’Rav, and published many of his fathers works. Zvi Kook also highjacked his father's liberal approach and used his ideologies to in fact determine that the returning occupied land is a sin. He also resisted the withdrawal of the settlements…

father, Shlomo Wiesel, was a practicing member of the Jewish religious community and a tolerant humanist. Elie’s mother, Sarah Wiesel, was Hasidism and hope that Elie would become a rabbi. This led Elie to study the Torah and the Talmud in local yeshiva, until 1944 when Nazis invaded Hungary and rounded up the Jews including Elie and his family. In Eliezer’s book Night Moshe (Elie’s tutor) had told the Jews what the Germans were doing and he was ignored by all who he told including Shlomo,…

Shortly after Muhammed founded Islam, Muslims began ruling the Arab lands. Jews lived as a minority under a variety of Muslim-ruled governments. Their rights and privileges were significantly less than that of their Muslim counterparts. In fact, Jews were part of the Dhimmi, which was considered to be any non-believer of Islam. A constant in these hierarchical relationships was Muslims in government and Jewish subjugation. Some scholars say that the motivation behind this oppression was…

A nearby resident, David S., heard the shots. Like many, he was a young man home on leave from his basic military service. He grabbed his army issue rifle and without concern for his own safety ran to the scene of the slaughter. He chased the terrorist up to the roof where he shot him dead. Soon his brother-in-law would also have the opportunity to be the hero. One hero inspires another. The Bicycle Rider and the Bulldozer In 2008, while riding his bicycle down the main street of Jerusalem,…

Marie’s father had a dream of becoming a chemist that he could not achieve because of social and financial obstacles. Marie achieved this goal for her father. During the 1940s, women in science career fields was a new and controversial topic. Marie Daly, with the disadvantage at the time of being African American and a woman, fought the stereotype that women should be “in the kitchen” and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Since then, Marie Daly has been a part of many…

“I’m a parent and I’m a businessman and I wondered about the way things were happening at my son’s cheder. I woke one morning and realized that there’s only a limited number of people who can help my children and they’re doing their best and they’re underpaid. I thought it was time to try and make a difference. That’s how I came to create Corks and Forks,” said Levy Lieberman. With a jolt of energy, he turned to help the rabbis at Cheder Menachem and, working together with several younger…