[ha-Safran] My maternal great-grandfather - Pinchas Tzvi Grayevsky - Jerusalem - 1873-1941

2019-06-01 Thread Jacob Richman via Hasafran
My maternal great-grandfather - Pinchas Tzvi Grayevsky - Jerusalem - 1873-1941 https://jr.co.il/richman/pinchas-grayevsky.htm >From 1948 to 1967 Jordan occupied the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world: Har HaZeitim - Mount of Olives. Jewish burials were halted, massive vandalism took place, and

[ha-Safran] birthday book club suggestion: why not use Hebrew birthdays?

2019-06-01 Thread Jonina Duker via Hasafran
easy conversion hebcal.com (though one has to know before or after sundown) Shavua Tov. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions