admin | April 11, 2024
There are great reasons to consider taking a gap year to Israel right now. Consider these as you and your teen contemplate how to spend your time this coming Fall
admin | April 11, 2024
Lena Dunham made the emotional discovery that her family has connections to the Holocaust during last weeks episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that Dunhams great-great-grandmother Regina Seltenwirth came to the US alone at just 14 years old, leaving 11 siblings behind in Europe
admin | April 11, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) Ive known Hanna Slome for my entire life: She and her husband Henry Slome were close friends of my parents. I knew that in the 1930s, Henry fled Nazi Germany and Hanna had somehow gotten out of Czechoslovakia, but I didnt know the details of her escape
admin | April 11, 2024
Judy Rakowsky Judy Rakowsky When a bill was introduced last month in the Pennsylvania Senate to make Holocaust education uniform and mandatory, a survivor spoke at the Pennsylvania State Capitol about the need for teaching children about the industrialized genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II. The Holocaust must be taught forever and ever, Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann said
admin | April 11, 2024
In Hulus limited-series We Were the Lucky Ones, the Kurc family in Poland is separated during World War II and spends years trying to reunite. This was before the Internet and cell phones so tracking each others whereabouts was hard. Its based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, who wrote about her own familys story.
admin | April 11, 2024
originally published: 04/10/2024 (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- When the threat of genocide ran rampant in Europe and around the globe during World War II, was American intervention adequate, or even possible? See the Holocaust in the context of the time during "Combatting Hate: America and the Holocaust" at the Ocean County Library Toms River Branch on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The event begins at 6:30pm
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) The rabbis of the Talmud are famous for their disagreements. But they presented a united front on eclipses, calling the celestial event a bad omen for the whole world.
admin | April 11, 2024
By Alan Jay Gerber With the onset of Pesach, I find the study of the historical and philosophical side of our religious tradition to be of great inspiration in getting myself into the holiday mood.
admin | March 30, 2024
A Winchester rabbi made the trek to Washington, D.C., last week to contribute to a ceremony when a secret World War II unit, known as the Ghost Army, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 21, Rabbi Aaron Stucker-Rosovsky of Beth El Congregation gave the parting benediction after surviving members of the Ghost Army received Congress highest honor at the U.S. Capitol.
admin | March 30, 2024
Mild spoilers for We Were the Lucky Ones ahead.
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