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Category Archives: Israel / Judaism
La mémoire des Hommes brûlés
— C’est une histoire de grands hommes. Une histoire triste qui se murmure. Une histoire comme d’autres qui font l’Histoire. Comme celles qui soufflent sur les braises et sur nos âmes. Comme celles qui font craquer les digues à Scheveningen. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Holocaust, Israel / Judaism
Tagged Clabecq, Clabecq Belgique, Déportation, Holocaust, Michel Botman, Michel Botman photographe, Michel Botman Photographer, Michel Botman photographie, Michel Botman Photography, Rue de la Déportation Tubize Belgique, Tubize, Tubize Belgique
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Memories of a Shabbat Goy (part 2)
Commentaries on the all-so-important theological article published in The Times of Israel on April 17, 2015: Is kosher switch really kosher for Shabbat?
God’ma & Dogma
After resisting for years the song of the sirens, I reluctantly took the plunge on facebook yesterday. Isolation from distant friends and family “de la vielle Europe” got the better of me. I longed for the bond, although virtual and cyberspaced. As I duly filled … Continue reading
The Frozen Moment
By Noah Botman. Although I had never been there and then, at that moment, that was exactly where I was. I stood there, locked in time, the tears still suspended in the air, inches beneath the battle hardened soldier’s red … Continue reading
On Religion and Bovine Scatology
A few weeks ago, I was sent a joke by a Jewish friend of mine with whom I had had a rather challenging Shabbat dinner conversation on Judaic laws.
Posted in Israel / Judaism, Religion
Tagged Albert Einstein, bovine scatology, Einstein, humor, humour, joke, Judaism, Michel Botman, Michel Botman Photography, Religion, religious joke
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March of the Living – Israel
Posted in Family, Israel / Judaism, Noah Botman, Travel
Tagged Golan, Israel, Jerusalem, March of the Living, Massada, Noah Botman, Sfat, the march of the living, Yom HaAtzma’ut
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March of the Living – Poland
Posted in Family, Holocaust, Israel / Judaism, Noah Botman, Travel
Tagged anti-semitism, antisemitism, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Holocaust, March of the Living, MOL, Noah Botman, Poland, Warsaw ghetto, Yom HaShoah
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The Obama Yad Vashem Address
As many of our loved ones journeyed from Poland to Israel, traveling across the world from a somber Yom HaShoah commemoration in Auschwitz to a glorious Yom HaAtzma’ut celebration in Massada, we are also to remember the thousands of survivors … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Holocaust, Israel / Judaism, Noah Botman
Tagged anti-semitism, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, human-rights, Israel, Majdanek, majdanek poland, Majdanic, middle-east, Noah Botman, Obama, Obama Yad Vashem Address, Palestine, politics, President Obama, President Obama Yad Vashem Address, Religion, shoah, UN resolution 181, World War II, Yom HaAtzma’ut, Yom HaShoah
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Memories from Auschwitz
In the spring of 1977, I was in my last year of Humanity studies at the “Collège St. Vincent”, in the small town of Soignies, in the French part of Belgium. I was invited to accompany my good friend André … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Holocaust, Israel / Judaism, Photography
Tagged André Gréga, anti-semitism, antisemitism, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Concentration camps, deutsche demokratische republik, History, Holocaust, holocaust memorial day, Holocaust remembrance, lech walesa, Michel Botman, Michel Botman photographe, Michel Botman Photographer, Michel Botman photographie, Michel Botman Photography, nuit et brouillard, Oswiecim, Poland, the march of the living, World War II
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Howard & Nancy Kleinberg: Testimonies of Survivors
By Noah Botman. On Sunday February 10, 2013, in preparation for “The March of the Living”, scheduled to take place early April, a few Jewish students – including our son, Noah – interviewed Holocaust survivors, Nancy and Howard Kleinberg. We … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, antisemitism, Auschwitz, Auschwitz tattoo, Bergen-Belsen, Concentration camps, Ghetto, History, Holocaust, Holocaust remembrance, holocaust survivors, Holocaust tattoo, howard kleinberg, Judaism, Lindy Amato, Majdanic, Mathousen, Michel Botman, Noah Botman, shoah, SS, Tattoo, the march of the living, Treblinka, Warsaw ghetto, World War II
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Historical Accuracy – Please!
On November 30, 2012, the day the Palestinian Authority obtained non-member observer state status at the United Nations, I received an email from, Avaaz, a civic organization of which I have been a member for a number of years. (Email … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Israel / Judaism
Tagged 1947 partition of Palestine, 1948 Arab Israel war, 1948 Middle East war, British Mandate for Palestine, Gaza, Gaza strip, Israel, Jewish refugees, Jordan, Palestine, Palestinian refugees, Palestinian state, Palestinian statehood, Partition of Palestine, Transjordan, West Bank
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Not just a number
Every afternoon, I drive to CHAT, the Hebrew Academy where my son Noah goes to school. It has been part of my hectic schedule for the last few years, and, despite the laborious routine, something I always look forward to … Continue reading
To be or not to be Jewish? The future of Judaism without shades
. . . . . . .Above: The Nuremberg law of genetic “Jewishness” Rabbi Farber : “Sixty per cent of North American Jews would not be able to break the threshold of proving they’re Jews” Reflection on Paul Lungen’s article … Continue reading
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