This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

On Tisha B’av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, we mourn the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem that were destroyed.

Seventy-eight years ago, a group of Jews took up arms in Warsaw and engaged in a month long battle against the most powerful army in the world.

Ten sets of tefillin were found in the bunker, dug ahead of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, pointing to prayer quorums 'underground and under the Nazis' noses,.'

We are a stiff-necked people. It is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest strength.

Three Book of Esther scrolls read on Purim during the Holocaust were recently found in a hidden synagogue at the former Warsaw Ghetto site after a wall in an old building in the ghetto collapsed.

It is no exaggeration to say that the fighters at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai played a critical role in saving the newly born modern State of Israel from annihilation.

Pope Francis, on his recent, short visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, destroyed any progress achieved in building trust between the Jewish and Catholic worlds.