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Feb 20, 2023, 6:29 PM

‘The Run of their Lives’

David Edery with runners (photo Alex Sternberg)

Sunday, February 12th 2023 – For 18 young boys and girls from the Bet Elazraki Children’s Home in Netanya, Israel, this day was a life changer. They, along with 4 staff members, were in Daytona Beach to run the...

Feb 6, 2023, 10:36 AM

A Visit to Hebron

If you think that Itamar Ben Gvir has radical ideas, wait until you meet his teacher Baruch Marzel. Marzel is a direct student of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the assassinated founder of the militant Jewish Defense League. Marzel, lives in...

Jan 1, 2023, 8:06 PM

The Meir Kahane I remember – a personal recollection

It was the late '60s, with the world slowly forgetting the enormity of the crime perpetrated against the Jewish people, when the attacks on Jews began to increase (again). Readers of the Jewish Press (the main Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn)...

Dec 8, 2022, 3:06 PM

Kahane-bashers can’t explain Kahanism!

Billy Joel famously wrote in his song, “It's still Rock and Roll to me” But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine...aimed at your average teen. I feel the same when some people attempt to explain...

Nov 27, 2022, 6:11 PM

Why Kahanism resonates?

The more the ideology of Rabbi Meir Kahane resonates, and the more citizens of Israel gravitate toward his views, the more apoplectic the left-wing press in Israel and the US becomes. After Israel’s recent election, I read with great...

Feb 6, 2022, 6:48 PM

Whoopi Goldberg trivializes the Holocaust

“Race is,” according to Whoopi Goldberg the critically acclaimed actress and TV star, “only about skin color, and that the Nazis didn’t target Jewish people because of their race.” These words sparked the latest outrage of Holocaust trivialization by...

Oct 7, 2021, 10:45 PM

Maccabi Hungary sportsmen restore abandoned shul

Ruined Kovagoors Synagogue

Restoration of old and abandoned synagogues has become a recent phenomenon in Hungary. Both in the capital of Budapest as well as in remote, outlying provinces, synagogues, once the center of a vibrant Jewish community, now stand deserted, alone...

Dec 9, 2020, 10:47 PM

The Sad State of Holocaust Education in Florida

The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida has a new exhibit teaching the lessons learned from the Holocaust by focusing on the murder of George Floyd. Yes, you read it correctly! Lisa Bachman the assistant director of education at...

Dec 3, 2020, 4:21 PM

The Hungarian ‘mint operations’

How Hungary systematically looted Jewish wealth prior to shipping them to Auschwitz

Sep 17, 2020, 1:21 AM

Orthodox Jews and the Olympics- Is there a chance?

I once heard a novel definition of “Bar Mitzvah.” According to this “golden oldie,” it is the age when a Jewish boy first realizes that his chances of owning a major league professional sports team are much better than actually...

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About Me

Born in Hungary, emigrated to US 1961. Became USA Karate Champion and teacher. Joined the Kahane led JDL, teaching karate and becoming an activist. Received doctorates in physiology and Public Health (SUNY College of Medicine), was the Director of the Pulmonary Function and Exercise Physiology Lab at Downstate Medical Center for 30 years. President and founder of the Center for Hungarian Holocaust Education. Presently, an author and teacher of Zionism, Jewish history and the Holocaust RAMBAM Mesivta MaccabiUSA Karate co-Chair “Legend of the Maccabiah” recipient 2018. USA Karate Federation Hall of Fame inductee 2015 Author of "Recipes from Auschwitz-The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews with Historical Insight". Amazon. Author: "The Toughest Jew in Brooklyn" in progress www.alexsternberg.com

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