Catalyst Oncology

by Danny Verbov The everlasting message of tefillin — from Bergen-Belsen to a Jerusalem oncology ward. My great-grandfather, Rabbi Nachum Mordechai Verbowsky, was the rabbi of the Lithuanian town of Akmian. Sixty-seven years ago, he put on Tefillin for the very last time. Before the war, the Akmian numbered some 300 Jewish families, Mazeik 500, and Vekshne 200. In the summer of 1941, these three Lithuanian towns bore the brunt of Nazi brutality. On the day the Germans entered, all the Je

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The Eternal Bond