Rita: reconciliation and mutual knowledge through music.

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017 FOS

Rita Yahan-Farouz is an Israeli Jewish pop singer and actress. In 2011, she became popular in Iran after the release of various pop records which she sings in her native Persian language.

73th Anniversary of Cracow Guetto’s liquidation.

March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 FOS

Ania and myself, we participated to the march from the ghetto of Krakow to the place where about 9 000 Jews were leaded to work in a camp, about 3 km farther, waiting there for the transport to one of the extermination camps. This march takes place every year around the 13th of March, date Read More

“I Was a Nazi, and Here’s Why”.

November 30, 2015 FOS

In recent years, many victims of violence have written memoirs in which they seek out and confront the perpetrators who harmed them. The opposite is rare. Few perpetrators seek out their victims, let alone write books about them. But fifty years ago this month, Melita Maschmann, a former Nazi, published just such a book. “Fazit,” Read More

The peace camp continues to make its voice heard in Israel.

October 26, 2015 FOS

His voice resounds, singular and soft on the gazebo overlooking the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Haim Yaron chose this peaceful place, far from cries of anger and calls for revenge, to hear another message. In his flesh bruised by violence that is raising up, he would have every reason to join in the cry Read More

“Judaism that burns churches and mosques is not ours,” said Rabbi Gottstein.

August 5, 2015August 15, 2015 FOS

“Judaism that burns churches and mosques is not ours,” said Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomes a “nice solidarity initiative”: that of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, a collective of several representatives of different faiths engaged in interreligious dialogue, founded by Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein. It is under the impetus of the latter that Read More

Israel honors its fallen soldiers in Yom HaZikaron.

April 22, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

Today, all over Israel, people stand silently at the sound of the siren. The sound marks a moment to remember terror victims and over 23,000 soldiers who have fallen since Israel’s creation. At that moment, Israelis stop what they are doing, wherever they are, and stand at attention to honor those they have lost.

The 21 Egyptian Martyrs of Libya

March 2, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

Sr. Darlene, nds from Egypt Just 2 months after she arrived in Alexandria for the new foundation in Egypt, Theodore wrote to Lucie Marx Mayer, July 6, 1880, “You know my sympathy for the happy country which sheltered the Holy Family. I do not think that any other country has produced so many saints.” (Theodore Read More

Victims of terrorist are interred in Jerusalem

January 13, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

Throngs of mourners joined public figures and dignitaries in Jerusalem on this Tuesday for the funeral of the four Jewish victims of the terrorist siege on a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday. The coffins of the four Jewish victims of the Paris terror attacks last week were brought to the Kiseh Rahamim Yeshiva Read More

Pope writes Christmas letter to persecuted Christians

December 23, 2014August 6, 2015 FOS

Pope Francis has written a Christmas letter to the Christians of the Middle East to express his closeness to them at a time of “afflictions and tribulations” due to “the continuing hostilities in the region, but especially because of the work of a newer and disturbing terrorist organization.” Dear Brothers and Sisters, “Blessed be the Read More