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Righteous Gentiles

Priests, Healing And The Holocaust

Benjamin Barer | Posted 04.09.2013 | Religion
Read More: Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, On Scripture, Biblical Leprosy, Judaism, Weekly Torah Portion, Righteous Gentiles, Religion News
Benjamin Barer

Leviticus is teaching us that the holiest of work, even when we are suffering under the burden of our own grief, is to help bring healing to others.

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The Legacy of Sugihara: How One Japanese Diplomat Saved My Grandfather From The Holocaust And Taught Me The Lesson Of Life

Mark B. Salomon | Posted 03.28.2012 | Religion
Read More: Genocide, Interfaith, Judaism, Chiune Sugihara, Righteous Gentiles, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance, Syria, Religion News
Mark B. Salomon

The courage to act, even when the world remains silent, is a powerful lesson. Sugihara was not alone; others acted to save lives, often at great personal risk or suffering the ultimate penalty of death.

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True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 07.21.2011 | Religion
Read More: Chilean Miners, Luis Urzua, Navy Seals, Peter Bergson, Martin Meimoeller, Gyongyi Mago, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Valor Medal, Holocaust Remembrance, Neo-Nazis, Righteous Gentiles, Religion News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Let us teach our children about the valor of true heroes, whose strength of character and faith protect the memory of the past and inform the limitless potential of the future.

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Righteous Among The Nations: Muslims Who Saved Jews From Holocaust

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Judaism and Islam, Holocaust Memorial, Righteous Among Nations, Muslims Holocaust, Albanian Muslims, Righteous Gentiles, Muslims and Jews, Albanian Besa, Righteous Gentiles Holocaust, Albanian Jews, Yad Vashem, Religion News

By Tim Townsend St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS (RNS) In 2003, Norman Gershman was looking for some of the righteous. What he found astonished ...

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