Jewish American Heritage Month

admin | January 28, 2010

Once, Ty was a misfit in school, tagging along behind cooler boys. But then he witnessed a stabbing. And now he is Joe, because the police have changed his identity to protect him

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admin | January 28, 2010

Last spring, as a senior, she opted to make a film rather than write a final paper for her “Family in the Jewish Tradition” course, taught by “Dr.

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admin | January 27, 2010

I know of two books that set a retelling of a fairy tale or folk tale during the Holocaust – Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (Sleeping Beauty) and The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy (Hansel and Gretel). …

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admin | January 27, 2010

As Israel and its Western allies mark “International Holocaust Memorial Day”, Israeli-born musician, writer and anti-racism campaigner Gilad Atzmon argues that the best way to honour the memory of Holocaust victims is to oppose the …

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admin | January 27, 2010

The Jewish Journal here in Los Angeles is one of the most easily read papers as it seems to be everywhere, sitting there on a rack, offered up for free. An Oscar contenders and the Jews story appeared in the latest issue, …

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admin | January 27, 2010

Special commemorations have been held today to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the Netherlands, hundreds of people took turns reading out the names of the 102000 Dutch Holocaust vict…

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admin | January 27, 2010

Palestinian Security Forces arrested 14 members of the Hamas political party in the West Bank this Wednesday at dawn. The IMEMC is a media collective.

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admin | January 26, 2010

message he deemed crucial to Israel’s future, Lifshitz decided to launch his own trips, with a particular focus on an older age group of young adults, many of whom no longer even qualified for the Birthright age maximum (no older than …

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admin | January 26, 2010

Joachim Neander, PhD, an independent scholar from Cracow, Poland, examines Irene Weisberg Zisblatt’s Holocaust survivor memoir and concludes that it is “not in accordance with the historically established facts,” “exaggerated,” …

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admin | January 26, 2010

Democratic US Reps. Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, and James Oberstar sent a letter urging President Obama late last week urging him to use diplomatic pressure to resolve the blockade affecting Gaza

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