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Yachad offers several clinical services for persons with disabilities. The organization gives customized guidance and support for families, siblings and parents. [1] The program "Our Way" includes persons who are hard of hearing and deaf-blind individuals. Shabbatons are inclusive weekend retreats, where Yachad members can be together with a ...
Jewish resistance under Nazi rule encompassed various forms of organized underground activities undertaken by Jews against German occupation regimes in Europe during World War II. According to historian Yehuda Bauer , Jewish resistance can be defined as any action that defied Nazi laws and policies. [ 1 ]
The Jewish Underground (Hebrew: המחתרת היהודית HaMakhteret HaYehudit), [1] or in abbreviated form, simply Makhteret, [2] was a radical right-wing fundamentalist organization [3] considered terrorist by Israel, [4] [5] formed by prominent members of the Israeli political movement Gush Emunim that existed from 1979 to 1984. [6]
In most cities the Jewish underground resistance movements developed almost instantly, although ghettoization had severely limited their access to resources. [ 3 ] The ghetto fighters took up arms during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust known as Operation Reinhard (launched in 1942), against the Nazi plans to deport all prisoners – men ...
Jewish Social Service Agency offers programs on dealing with anxiety and stress resulting from war. [7] In 2013, it partnered with Yachad and American Jewish Society for Service to develop and implement a curriculum that helps people understand what it is like to live with a disability and how important social services are to people in need of ...
Arthur Juda (Adje Cohen, Uri Yehuda Cohen, Aart Gerardus Lekskes) Cohen (19 January 1910 – 22 December 2000) was a member of the Dutch Underground resistance movement, [1] and after World War II he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Jewish community in Rotterdam; [1] as late as the mid-1970s, when already in his 60s, he established a school for strictly orthodox boys and girls ...
Jewish disabilities were legal restrictions, limitations and obligations placed on European Jews in the Middle Ages. In Europe, the disabilities imposed on Jews included provisions requiring Jews to wear specific and identifying clothing such as the Jewish hat and the yellow badge , paying special taxes , swearing special oaths , living in ...
Bricha (Hebrew: בריחה, romanized: briḥa, lit. 'escape, flight'), also called the Bericha Movement, [1] was the underground organized effort that helped Jewish Holocaust survivors escape Europe post-World War II to the British Mandate for Palestine in violation of the White Paper of 1939.