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Head of USC Shoah Foundation leaves role with heartfelt letter to all survivors – Jewish News

| October 13, 2021

A British-born Holocaust educator has announced he is stepping down as head of the USC Shoah Foundation. Stephen Smith penned a heartfelt letter to To survivors of the Shoah and genocides the world over in announcing he is leaving his role as Chief Executive

We cannot bring the dead to life, but we can keep their memory alive – Jewish News

| October 13, 2021

At the memorial service for Sir Martin Gilbert in November 2015, the late former Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, zl told the following anecdote: It must have been 15 years ago, just before the (original) Holocaust Exhibition was opened in the Imperial War Museum. The organisers of that wonderful exhibition had decided in their thoughtfulness and kindness to invite the Holocaust survivors to a dinner just a couple of weeks before the Exhibition was opened, so that they could see it first.

Sudanese justice minister meets with Israeli officials in UAE – The Times of Israel

| October 13, 2021

Neo-Nazis burial in Jewish gravesite causes stir in Germany The burial of a Holocaust denier in the gravesite of a Jewish music professor has caused an uproar in Germany. The top German government official tasked with combating antisemitism, Commissioner for Jewish Life Felix Klein, criticizes the action, joining expressions of disbelief from some of the countrys leading Jews.


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