MORDECHAI HAIMOVITCH

NISSIM SALEM was captured in Lebanon and held in Syria for three years. Held in captivity by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command led by Ahmed Jibril, he was eventually released in a prisoner-swap deal in 1985.

Nissim Salem’s three years in Syrian captivity: 'Life felt over, but hope remained' - interview

Nissim Salem survived three years in Syrian captivity by holding onto hope. Forty years after release, he recalls captivity as Tzvi Feldman’s body returns home.

MAY 17, 2025

A group photo of Limmud FSU Australia participants.

A promised land Down Under

The ‘Kimberley Plan,’ would give 20,000 kilometers to Jewish settlements in northwest Australia. The first stage of the plan was to absorb 100,000 Jews, mainly from Eastern Europe.

AUGUST 23, 2015

The house of Rahel Bluwstein (inset) in the small city of Saratov, Russia.

In search of Rahel

A journey to the Russian town of Saratov to find the house in which Rahel the Poetess grew up.

AUGUST 2, 2015

‘Let my people go!’

A look at some of the individuals embedded in the history of freeing Soviet Jewry.

JULY 2, 2015

LIMMUD FSU founder Chaim Chesler shows off a photograph of the hotair balloon he flew to bring awarness to Soviet Jewry.

Le tailleur du président

Voici la surprenante histoire d’un survivant des camps, devenu maître tailleur pour les grands de ce monde

JANUARY 27, 2015

Dressing the president

The incredible story of the man who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald and reinvented himself as master tailor to the most important people in the world.

JANUARY 10, 2015