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Coronavirus Depletes the Keepers of Europes Memory – The New York Times

| June 7, 2020

ROME For years, Gildo Negri visited schools to share his stories about blowing up bridges and cutting electrical wires to sabotage Nazis and fascists during World War II. In January, the 89-year-old made another visit, leaving his nursing home outside Milan to help students plant trees in honor of Italians deported to concentration camps. But at the end of February, as Europes first outbreak of the coronavirus spread through Mr.

Congress’ Grassroots Effort to Make ‘Never Again’ Resound in Classrooms Across America – Algemeiner

| June 7, 2020

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo: Phil Kalina/Flickr. JNS.org Amid the rise in antisemitism in the United States and abroad, President Donald Trump signed the Never Again Education Act last month as part of Jewish American Heritage Month, one month after the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s alternate reality in time of anguish – Minneapolis Star Tribune

| June 7, 2020

WASHINGTON "Vicious dogs." "Ominous weapons." Injured police. Gagging protesters. Shattered storefronts.

Religious leaders split over reopening places of worship in England – The Guardian

| June 7, 2020

Christian leaders have welcomed the governments announcement that places of worship in England will be allowed to reopen for individual prayer from 15 June, but Muslim and Jewish leaders said the move was not appropriate for the way they practise their faith.

Letter: Events of 2020 call for a new vision forward – Palm Beach Daily News

| June 7, 2020

I was reflecting back on my High Holiday sermon that I delivered at Palm Beach Synagogue this past September. I spoke about the upcoming year of 2020, how we must have a 2020 vision of hope and optimism. From the pulpit, I preached about how 2020 will surely bring us renewed clarity

A Virtual Panel on Queer Spirituality Will Include Insights from Rabbi Egers New Book – WEHOville

| June 7, 2020

Rabbi Denise Eger will share readings and insights from her new book, Mishkan Gaavah: Where Pride Dwells, A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual, at an interfaith virtual panel on Queer Spirituality on June 11. The panel discussion will take place at 5 p.m

A rabbi and scribe: Meet the new director of the Italian Jewish Museum – The Jerusalem Post

| June 7, 2020

Amedeo Spagnoletto, a rabbi and a sofer a Jewish ritual scribe has been appointed as the new director of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), the museum announced on Thursday.Located in the city of Ferrara in Northern Italy, celebrated in the renowned novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by local Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani, the museum has been partially operating for a few years, but several of its buildings are still under construction.Spagnoletto was selected by MEIS board from a pool of 17 applicants from Italy and abroad, becoming one of the handful rabbis to lead a museum in the world.When I was told I had been selected I was very surprised. I was not sure how my background would play, he told The Jerusalem Post. However Italy boasts a long and great tradition of rabbis active in other fields as well.


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