We visited the Krakow JCC in July and met Jonathan and saw for ourselves what the have are doing for the Jewish community. The building is huge with houses many activities, for Jews of all ages. They are particularly interested in bring 'new' Jews into the fold... Jews, who until fairly recently even knew that they were Jewish, due to the war and Communism. In person, as he is in this broadcast, Jonathan is a warm, intelligent individual, who truly loves his community.
"There were a lot of good [non-Jewish] Poles" during the Nazi occupation. Indeed there were, none more so than the late Professor Jan Karski, the very embodiment of what it is to be noble.
Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us. As quoted in The Agony of the Promised Land (2004) by Joshua Levy, Ch. 23 "The Hope for Peace", p. 187
Fundamentalism is a movement to recapture an ideological "purity" within a religion, that supposedly has been lost by mainstream adherents of the religion at large. Fundamentalists often assert the primacy of their own idiosyncratic interpretation of religious texts over centuries of acquired knowledge and practice. This puts them at odds not only with the secular world and members of other religions, but also with their less zealous brethren.
We visited the Krakow JCC in July and met Jonathan and saw for ourselves what the have are doing for the Jewish community. The building is huge with houses many activities, for Jews of all ages. They are particularly interested in bring 'new' Jews into the fold... Jews, who until fairly recently even knew that they were Jewish, due to the war and Communism. In person, as he is in this broadcast, Jonathan is a warm, intelligent individual, who truly loves his community.
Unique person in a difficult job who appears to be doing a great job.
"There were a lot of good [non-Jewish] Poles" during the Nazi occupation. Indeed there were, none more so than the late Professor Jan Karski, the very embodiment of what it is to be noble.
Only lately did I learn That poles had the highest number in helping jews hide or escape Nazi
Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.
As quoted in The Agony of the Promised Land (2004) by Joshua Levy, Ch. 23 "The Hope for Peace", p. 187
Fundamentalism is a movement to recapture an ideological "purity" within a religion, that supposedly has been lost by mainstream adherents of the religion at large. Fundamentalists often assert the primacy of their own idiosyncratic interpretation of religious texts over centuries of acquired knowledge and practice. This puts them at odds not only with the secular world and members of other religions, but also with their less zealous brethren.