It’s hard to imagine a more ideal setting than the Meir Shfeyah Youth Aliyah Village for the 29 Ukrainian Jewish teens who've taken refuge from their war-torn cities.
"Jews remember! Jews write!” These were the dying words of Simon Dubnow, the great Jewish historian, murdered by a Gestapo officer on a Riga street in 1941.
At Meir Shfeyah, Na’ale program participants, students recruited from the former Soviet Union, stayed on campus because there was no way for them to join their families overseas.
In honor of Henrietta Szold's 75th yahrzeit, we recall how Hadassah's founder orchestrated the rescue of 870 Jewish children from Tehran as part of her work with Youth…