[RBS] Motzash - Meet a Jewish Heroine and Support Keren Yosef's Life-Saving Work

[Aryeh Koenigsberg]

Keren Yosef - which raises money for emergency medical
equipment - is all about saving lives.  This Saturday night
we will be privileged to hear a first-hand account of one of
the most dramatic life-saving adventures of all times: the
 rescue of the Mir  Yeshiva during the Shoah, by the Jewish
community of Shanghai.

In early 1941, seizing an opportunity to continue their escape,
the rabbis and students of the Mir Yeshiva traveled as a group
across the Soviet Union to Japan and then to Shanghai, where
members spent the war years. Mir emerged as the only eastern
European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact.

Saturday night's speaker, Mrs. Leah Garrick, grew up in a
fourth-generation Iraqi-Jewish family in Shanghai.  She witnessed
the miraculous recue of the Mir Yeshiva - in which her family played
a part - and is bringing this inspiring story to our community, as at
tribute to Keren Yosef's life-saving work.

Please tell your friends, and join us as we revisit a remarkable episode
in Jewish achdut and courage.

SHANGHAI - MY MIRACULOUS LIFE

Motsai Shabbat 13 November 2010, 8pm

Selesny Hall, Bet Medrash Torani Leumi

Rechov Reuven / Asher, Givat Sharet

Donation: 20sh, couple 30sh, students/chayalim/sheirut leumi 10sh

Keren Yosef provides life saving medical vehicles, equipment,
seminars, information and training in Greater Bet Shemesh and
throughout Israel