David Groen is the youngest of 5 children and the author of "Jew Face: A Story of love and heroim in Nazi-occupied Holland"

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August 4, 2017
7:22 am

How Tisha B’Av gave me a teaching moment towards my fellow Jews

Earlier in the week Camp Solomon Schechter of Olympia, Washington inauspiciously made international headlines. In the name of what they considered diversity and referred to as a "teaching......

July 26, 2017
7:28 am

Decades later Israel’s threat is not just from the Palestinians. It’s from the Arab world

As unfortunate as it may sound, an argument can be made that Palestinian terrorists are pawns for more than just the Iranian government. After the recent comments from Arab......

May 26, 2017
12:20 am

Generations later, descendants honor martyrs and heroes

History has a way of coming full circle. When a non-Jewish Dutchman three generations removed from WWII and the Nazi atrocities can make contact with a Jewish man in the......

April 28, 2017
11:23 pm

Rising from the Ashes to Share a Message of Love and Hope: Remembering the life of Sipora Groen

As I write this I am fully cognizant of the fact that there are those among you who......

April 30, 2012
4:12 pm

A story of love and heroism in Nazi-occupied Holland

In 1940, an estimated 80,000 of Amsterdam's 800,000 inhabitants were Jewish. Unlike the city today which is a melting pot of minorities and nationalities, pre-war Amsterdam’s most significant minority......

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