Jewish American Heritage Month

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Co-Sponsored by More Than Half the Senate, Resolution Passes the Senate Unanimously WASHINGTON, DC Today, U.S.

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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In the climactic scene of the musical Caroline, or Change, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, Noah, and his African American maid, Caroline, living in the Jim Crow South, get into a heated fight and end up trading ugly insults. Noah says he hopes a bomb kills all Black people, and Caroline responds that all Jews will go to hell

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Empty poison gas cans of the pesticide Zyklon B are exhibited in the museum of the former concentration camp Auschwitz I. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Nicole Raz and Mala Blomquist Leaders of Arizonas Jewish community are suing the state to prevent it from using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz, to carry out capital punishment. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used pellets of Zyklon B, a hydrogen cyanide formulation, in the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other death camps.

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CORFU, Greece The door of the Scuola Greca synagogue on the island of Corfu is painted emerald green with two Stars of David in the middle.

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on How the few Jews left on the Greek island of Corfu hold onto their history – Forward
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admin | February 19, 2022

These French Jewish women felt left out.

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on In France, women found a school of their own to study ancient Jewish texts – Forward
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A view of the future site of the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Saint-Laurent boulevard.

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on Montreals Holocaust Museum relocating to new $80 million site in historic Jewish quarter by 2025 – Forward
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Collier Meyerson, creator of Love Thy Neighbor, grew up in Manhattan but spent eight years living in Crown Heights as an adult.

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on A podcaster explores her own Black and Jewish identities in a series about the Crown Heights riots – Forward
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admin | February 19, 2022

What do we think of when we think about our presidents? The courage of George Washington crossing the Delaware

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on Who were the most (and least) Jewish presidents? – Forward
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admin | February 19, 2022

Two more suspects in the arson attack on the home of a Jewish family in East Jerusalems Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood were arrested Wednesday by the Israel Police and the Shin Bet security service. The two were taken in for questioning and the security services are expected to seek a court order extending their detention

Category: Jewish | Comments Off on Two suspects arrested for arson of Jewish familys home in Sheikh Jarrah – Haaretz
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