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Menucha Chana Levin

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In Print / Lessons In Emunah

My Son’s Chanukah Miracle

By Menucha Chana Levin

For one agonizing moment, Meir thought his time in the world was about to end. But glancing at the note taped to his gun, he quickly murmured the words: Hashem Hu Elokim, ein od milvado. Then, a few meters in front of Meir, the missile changed direction in midair, as if it struck an invisible force field.

In Print / Lessons In Emunah

Our Upstairs Neighbors And The Pesach Wine

By Menucha Chana Levin

His reply was quick in coming. I’ve heard of a segula if the Pesach wine used for the makkos is poured on the doorstep of irritating neighbors they might move out, he informed him. Of course, Asher and Malkie were very excited to hear about this unusual segula and couldn’t wait for the seder to end so they could implement it.

Op-Eds / In Print

The Smuggled Sukkah

By Menucha Chana Levin

When the threat of war increased during the 1930s in Germany, Judaica collector Dr. Heinrich Feuchtwanger attempted to persuade the Deller family to donate their sukkah to a museum in Jerusalem.

In Print / Book Reviews

Title: Patient: Taking Tefillah, Emunah and Humor on a Journey to Healing

By Menucha Chana Levin

Sharing her experiences with honesty and humor, she enables the reader to connect to her challenging journey with all its difficult and positive aspects.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

One Family Saving Another

By Menucha Chana Levin

You can’t control how rich you will be, or how smart or successful you will be. But you can control how good you will be.

Features On The Jewish World / In Print

Saving Lives

By Menucha Chana Levin

"Gruninger paid a high price for the choice he made. In the struggle between his sense of duty as a police officer, and dedication to the concepts of humanity, the latter triumphed," states Yad Vashem.

Interviews and Profiles

A Heroic And Righteous Couple: Eberhard and Donata Helmrich

By Menucha Chana Levin

Donata, like Eberhard, viewed the Nazis as “a failure of human decency.” Equally despising their heartlessness, she took the risk of defying them to save Jewish lives.

Interviews and Profiles

Arielle’s Unusual Bat Mitzvah Project

By Menucha Chana Levin

Through my research, I not only discovered my history, but also what it means to be a Jew.

Recipes

Pesach Memories: Ginger-Carrot Candy

By Menucha Chana Levin

Of all the Pesach foods we had, the one I recall most fondly is my mother’s ginger-carrot candy.

Interviews and Profiles

Armin Wegner: The German Writer Who Defended The Jews

By Menucha Chana Levin

In 1933, Wegner chose to risk everything – his home, successful career and his own freedom – by speaking out in protest of Hitler's treatment of the Jews.

Interviews and Profiles

Heroine Yvonne Nèvejean

By Menucha Chana Levin

She decided to seek help straight from the top, contacting the Queen Mother, Elisabeth of Belgium herself.

Interviews and Profiles

Gerda Valentiner Of Denmark

By Menucha Chana Levin

The country of Denmark has the rare distinction of being the only occupied country in Europe to defy the Nazi regime’s attempt to deport its Jewish citizens, and, in fact, saved 99% of them.

Features

Righteous Lithuanians

By Menucha Chana Levin

The surviving five percent of Lithuanian Jewry owe their lives to the small number of heroic people who saved them.

Interviews and Profiles

Dr. Adelaide Hautval Of France: A Friend Of The Jews

By Menucha Chana Levin

Her brave answer resulted in her imprisonment in Bourges prison where she would witness further cruelty towards Jews.

Features / From the Paper

Dom Bruno Of Belgium: The Heroic Priest Who Saved 400 Jewish Lives

By Menucha Chana Levin

Dom Bruno was clearly a courageous man, risking his own life to save four hundred Jewish lives, most of them children.

Features / From the Paper

Alice Cohn: Jewish Heroine Of The Holocaust

By Menucha Chana Levin

Many of these rescuers, rather than fleeing to ensure their own safety, chose to help their brethren escape.

Features / From the Paper

Marion Pritchard Of Holland

By Menucha Chana Levin

Filled with rage at the cruelty of the Nazis, she vowed to save as many Jewish children as she could.

From the Paper / Features

The Spy Who Saved Thousands Of Jews

By Menucha Chana Levin

Some were hysterical. Many wept. All were desperate.

Interviews and Profiles / From the Paper

The Socialite Heroine Of The French Resistance

By Menucha Chana Levin

Never refusing an assignment, Suzanne walked all over the city of Paris in an effort to find a hospital willing to risk treating Jews in hiding who needed urgent medical attention.

Features On The Jewish World / From the Paper

An Unlikely Hero

By Menucha Chana Levin

Sousa Mendes told Rabbi Kruger that he also had a large family and wanted to help the Kruger family.

From the Paper

A Polish Officer

By Menucha Chana Levin

I do not consider myself a hero. I only did my duty as a human being toward people who were persecuted and tortured.

Interviews and Profiles

Princess Alice Of Greece: Mother of Prince Philip and Mother-In-Law of Queen Elizabeth

By Menucha Chana Levin

The Greek royal family had been well acquainted with the family of Haimaki Cohen, a Jewish former member of Parliament, from northern Greece.

Features

Giorgio Perlasca: The ‘Italian Wallenberg’

By Menucha Chana Levin

I couldn't stand the sight of people being branded like animals... I couldn't stand seeing children being killed. I did what I had to do.

Interviews and Profiles

Jew For A Week: Ryan Bellerose’s Story

By Menucha Chana Levin

I decided to really understand what Jewish people go through by becoming a Jew.

Features

Brief Lives, Lasting Legacies

By Menucha Chana Levin

These two special women utilized their incredibly painful experience as an opportunity to assist others.

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