and Jewish Life
Sunday 16 June 2019
Birzai, Lithuania
Photos of the event
Atzalynas Gimnazija, Kedainiai Lithuania
13 June 2019
VIDEO OF OUR EVENT IN LITHUANIA
For video, click here:
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZXBEuPfeFc
At the school
At the cemetery
At the Holocaust site
Jerusalem, 23 June 19
Telfed Jerusalem Wits Zionist Council Event June 23rd 2019 PDF
Jerusalem Talk 19
Ra’anana 27 June 19
Eli Rabinowitz 27 June 2019
For more information, visit
WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
London, June 2019
Here is a selection of my photos from the first couple of days of a six week trip that will take me to London, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, Belarus and Poland.
This trip will include meetings in London, commemorations in Lithuania, a seminar at the International School of Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, my presentations in Jerusalem and Ra’anana, the reunion of the Bielski Partisans in Belarus, and a visit to Warsaw, before heading home to Perth, Australia. Hopefully I will see numerous family members and friends along the way.
To give you an idea of how far away Perth is from London, my first flight was non-stop, and 16 hours 47 minutes long!
Getting there on the Qantas Dreamliner.
My view overlooking Primrose Hill Park
Someone homework reading material for me!
South Hampstead Shul
A lovely service and great kiddush!
Source: www.southhampstead.org/
Around Primrose Hill with my niece Natalie Rabinowitz
From Primrose Hill through Regents Park to the West End.
West End Walk
A Sikh gathering in Trafalgar Square
In the direction of Covent Garden
The French Tea Store
Covent Garden
Discover what’s on in Covent Garden, London. From restaurants, pubs & cocktail bars to high street & designer shopping, there’s something for all the family.
Source: www.coventgarden.london/
http://cjc.org.za/whats-in-a-changing-name/
Richard Shavei Tzion is my wife Jill Saevitzon Reitstein Rabinowitz’s cousin!
Beautifully written, as always!
Special Guest speaker for Seudah last week – 25th May
One Man’s story, of Israel’s culture, society & politics, from the perspective of a bedouin minority, in the Jewish state.
Ismael Khaldi earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Haifa and a master’s degree in political science and international relations from Tel Aviv University. He served in the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Police, and in the Israel Defence Forces as a political analyst. Diplomatic career Khaldi began working for the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 and In June 2006, he was appointed to serve in San Francisco, USA. In August 2009, Khaldi was appointed policy advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman.
Ishmael also spoke to the community at the Jewish Centre, jointly hosted by the UIA, JNF and Friends of Israel.
On Tuesday he visited Edith Cowan University and met with Bill Allen, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education.
The Partisans’ Song was translated by Ishmael into Arabic:
Translated by Ishmael Khaldi
The Partisans’ Song = نشيد الانصار
Never say that there is only death for you = لا تقل هذه طريقي الأخيرة
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue= على الرغم من ان السماء الرصاصية ربما تخفي اياما زرقاء
Because the hour we have hungered for is near; =لان الساعة التي انتظرناها – قريبه
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here! = تحت اقدامنا تهز الأرض – نحن هنا
From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow, = من ارض جبل النخيل – الى بلاد الثلج البعيدة
We shall be coming with our torment and our woe; =سوف نأتي بآلامنا وحزننا
And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth, = وفي كل مكان روت الأرض من دماءنا
Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth. =لتزهر شجاعتنا وقوتنا
We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow=شمس الصباح ستضوي يومنا
d all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe; =وامسنا ستختفي مع العدو.
And if the time is long before the sun appears, = وإذا كان الوقت طويلاً قبل ظهور الشمس ،
Then let this song go like a signal through the years. = اذا دع هذه الأغنية تكن إشارة عبر السنين.
This song was written with blood and not with lead; = كتبت هذه الأغنية بالدم وليس بالرصاص ؛
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead; = إنها ليست أغنية تغنيها الطيور الصيف ؛
It was a people among toppling barricades, = كان الناس مع الحواجز المنهاره ،
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades. = الذين نشدو أغنيتنا بمسدسات وقنابل.
Never say that there is only death for you, = لا تقل أبداً أن هناك ل موتًا فقط ،
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue, = على الرغم من أن السماء الرصاصيهعلى قد تخفي أيامًا زرقاء ،
Because the hour we have hungered for is near; = لأن الساعة التي انتظرناها تقترب ؛
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble—we are here! =تحت باطننا ترتعش الأرض- نحن هنا!
12 June (Wednesday)
TWO weeks after lighting a candle at Yom Hashoah, 100-year-old Lena Goldstein died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday night.
Source: www.jewishnews.net.au/shoah-survivor-lena-goldstein-passes-away-at-100/89950
In Lena Goldstein’s story, we journey from her youth in Lublin Poland, through her life and deathstruggle in the Warsaw Ghetto, to a new life in Australia. Weaving this within the historical context, author Barbara Miller creates a gripping account of how Lena survived the lowest ebb in Jewishhistory. Lena’s story will inspire the next generation to be upstanders, and always to have hope!
Eli Rabinowitz, Educator, genealogist and filmmaker – WE ARE HERE! Foundation
I never met Moshe Fiszman, but I have watched and studied a 9 minute video of Moshe and Uncle Boydie, produced by Viv Parry, which has greatly influenced me. This film will serve as an introduction to an inspiring global project being launched in Australia in August. See below.
The following is what Viv wrote for me this morning, the day Moshe was buried in Melbourne, Australia,
A short documentary conversation between Uncle Boydie (Alf Turner) – grandson of Indigenous activist William Cooper, and Moishe Fiszman – a Holocaust survivor … This movie was mad…
Source: elirab.me/ties-that-bind/
Filmed by Justin Olstein
Ties that Bind forms an important introduction to our WE ARE HERE! Project for Upstanders, starting in Australia in August 2019:
Source: wah.foundation
This program is sponsored by a cultural grant from the U.S. Department of State
