In the year 1944 a group of ragged Jewish prisoners gathered for yet another very tiring work assignment in concentration camp Auschwitz. Jews were starved, tortured and murdered everywhere. The least expression of Jewish faith was strictly prohibited, reasons for execution by Nazi guards. But on that Rosh HaShanah, a group of courageous Jews managed...
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Born Saartje Wijnberg in 1922, Selma (she changed her name in 1957 when she moved to the United States) grew up with her three brothers in the Dutch town of Zwolle, where her parents Samuel and Alida had built up and owned a successful kosher hotel. Selma later recalled her childhood as idyllic: her family...
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door Tineke Knol As a baby and later when I was five year old, I have been in the hospital. In that period lays the root cause of many difficulties that I experienced later in my adult life. As a child I was often anxious. As an adult I regularly have received help for complaints...
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My faith gives me a certain mentality by Tirsa Burgos  In everyday life I really stand for my faith. If people ask me why I do things a certain way, I explain them. I tell them I live Jewish, eat kosher and go to a synagogue every shabbat. I’m really thinking about how I want...
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by Sonja Haisma This week as many as 20 people were baptized in our congregation.The youngest was a ten year old girl, the oldest a retired man. In Jewish / biblical tradition, they independently immersed themselves in a mikvah , as it was in New Testament times, according to Acts 22:16 “And now why are...
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By Hannah (Hannah lives close to Jerusalem. She lost her husband four years ago. Hannah has two teenage children) I am writing these lines with the wish and prayer that they will especially encourage those who are going through a time of difficulties, through a personal deep valley. He is with you and He, Yeshuah,...
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  How did it begin: There was no room for Adonai in our lifes when we started as a couple.  There were too many negative influences because of religion.  Before we came together as a couple we decided that we would not attend church services any longer.  We got married in October 1965 and we...
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  The Bible is a very special book for me. Especially the Psalms are speaking about life as it is. In particular Psalm 55 was very important to me some years ago, because it pictured my own situation as it were. It was a time in which I felt myself as a prisoner. Verse 3...
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Being blind How many times did I read the Book of Ruth. From my childhood until now so many times. It’s such a beautiful story of a woman who left her fathers house and her land and all what she belonged, in the land where she was born. She left it al behind because she...
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