Glenn Leibowitz

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Dec 6, 2021, 12:08 AM

How Austria’s Youth Are Building Bridges to the Global Jewish Community

Austrian youth standing at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (Image courtesy of Austrian Service Abroad)

The first time Andreas Maislinger stepped foot as a young student on the grounds of Auschwitz, the largest of the network of Nazi-run concentration camps where over 1 million Jews perished, his life was permanently transformed. Confronting the horrors of...

Jul 30, 2021, 11:47 PM

Protecting Ethiopian olim from the rain of rockets

Newly-arrived Ethiopian olim in Israel

By the end of the 11-day conflict that rattled Israel this May, an estimated 4,000 rockets had been launched from the Gaza Strip towards the country. The constant whine of air raid sirens forced people to rush into bomb...

Apr 5, 2021, 11:13 PM

Celebrating the End of Passover, Moroccan-Style

After a week of Passover-mandated noshing on the "bread of affliction," matzah-eating Jews around the world are happy to return to their bread-consuming ways. In Taiwan, where I live, we broke our week-long ban on leavened goods by gorging on...

Mar 23, 2021, 11:33 PM

Next year in Jerusalem

In 2012, I took my family on our first trip to Israel. It was the week leading up to Passover, which coincided with my kids' spring break vacation from school. They had a week off, and we were going to...

Feb 26, 2021, 5:14 PM

Purim in Shanghai

How a synagogue that is only allowed to open a few times a year opened my path to Jewish involvement in the Diaspora

Feb 16, 2021, 7:53 PM

This son of refugees from Nazi Germany helps students achieve the American dream

In 2009, after a successful 30-year career as CEO of JoAnn Stores, a leading retailer of fabrics and crafts in the United States with over $2.3 billion in annual revenues, Alan Rosskamm was considering what he should do for...

Dec 31, 2020, 11:03 PM

Painting the Torah: An Interview with Jewish-Chilean Artist Mauricio Avayu

For thousands of years, from the days when the Torah was transmitted to Jewish communities through letters meticulously inscribed by hand on bulky parchment scrolls, to the present day, when you can swipe through and instantly hyperlink to passages...

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Glenn Leibowitz is a communications professional and writer.

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