Friday, January 6, 2012
Cantor Robert Gerber, new at Har Sinai Congregation at Owings Mills, returned from a recent trip with a unique appreciation of Germans.
What Cantor Robert Gerber will remember most about Leipzig are the people he met, and the frank discussions he had with them about a dark part of German history. The eastern German city still struggles to rebuild its Jewish population nearly 70 years after The Holocaust, Gerber said. But that doesn’t mean the people there don’t understand Germany’s place in history. “We had some incredible intellectual discussions,” Gerber said. “Frank, intellectual discussions about the roles Germany played in The Holocaust.” Few people might want to relive such a dark period in history, Gerber said, but “the Germans are unique to that extent. “The thing that impressed me the most was the openness of the Germans…they were exposing their dirty laundry for …
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Dr. Nathan Moskowitz's Shoah Forensic Art Institute aims to honor the lost souls who perished during the Holocaust.
As a child of two Holocaust survivors, Dr. Nathan Moskowitz learned of the infamous tragedy at a young age. To say he’s familiar with the sorrow and mourning that goes along with commemorating Kristallnacht—the day when the Nazis began carrying out their "final solution" by attacking Jews and destroying their homes and synagogues—would probably be an understatement. However, a little less than a decade ago, Moskowitz was inspired to create a new way to honor the lives of those lost. That inspiration came when Yad Vashem, a Jewish center responsible for safeguarding the memory of the Holocaust in Israel, introduced an online database that housed thousands of records of Jewish prisoners names and their vital information. In searching for his…
Monday, December 6, 2010
As a yearlong restoration project concludes, a 300-year-old Torah again sees the light.
With Chanukah well under way, the Har Sinai Congregation in Owings Mills came together Sunday to celebrate the completion of a 12-month long Torah restoration project. "In order to make everything kosher" Har Sinai took on the task of restoring seven Torahs it had in its possession, President Louise Zirretta said. The Torah that took center stage in Sunday's celebration was a 300-year-old parchment — a Czech Torah that sustained battle wounds and symbolized to the community that it could make it through times of oppressive darkness. "This was seven months of hard work, preserving every letter. There were a lot of long days and long nights to bring forth this message of light and hope," said Rabbi Yochanan Salazar Loewe, a master sofer, …
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