Filipinos guarding Jewish institutions, Operation Benjamin, and more!
Filipinos guarding Jewish institutions, Operation Benjamin, and more!
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Every week, we browse the web to find you the most intriguing articles, videos, and other content from around the Jewish world! Yalla, let’s go:
Women trained by former IDF special forces, guard Jewish institutions from Philippines
A former Israeli secret service official has launched an international security venture offering services to Jewish institutions, while combining security cameras, artificial intelligence, and a control room based in the Philippines.
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In 1968, Poland's communist government forced Jews to leave. Today, the country embraces refugees.
Because SS soldiers used the Nożyk Synagogue as a warehouse and horse stable during World War II, it was the only major Jewish synagogue the Nazis did not destroy in Poland's capital city of Warsaw. Now, it is once again a house of worship, led by the chief rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich.
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Jewish soldiers are buried under crosses around the world. A rabbi’s nonprofit is changing that.
Operation Benjamin has so far replaced the headstones of 19 U.S. Jewish servicemen, including seven who underwent the ceremony last week in cemeteries in France, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
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Doug Emhoff says being 2nd gentleman brought him closer to Judaism
“I didn’t realize what a big deal it would be not only to the Jewish community and to faith communities but to myself,” U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband says.
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He helped save 10,000 Jews from the Nazis; his family only found out 63 years later
Hubert Pollack, who participated in a plan to get thousands of exit visas from Nazi Germany, was honored along with 12 other Jewish heroes on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day last week.
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