80 years after Babyn Yar massacre: tools to keep the memory alive, learn the lessons – European Jewish Press
admin | September 6, 2021
By Anton Schneerson Babyn Yar. Two words are as short as a gunshot.
Judicial independence under threat in the EU | Opinion | Law Gazette – Law Gazette
admin | September 6, 2021
Remember Baltasar Garzn (pictured below), the Spanish examining magistrate who in 1998 unsuccessfully sought the extradition from the UK of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator?
80 years after Babyn Yar massacre: Tools to keep the memory alive, learn the lessons – EU Reporter
admin | September 4, 2021
A zoom press conference was dedicated on Tuesday (31 August) to the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre ahead of an event 'Lessons from Babyn Yar: History, Memory and Legacy' , which is jointly organised by the House of European History in Brussels and the Kiev-based Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC), writes Yossi Lempkowicz.
Israel and the Holy See – besacenter.org
admin | August 28, 2021
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,137, August 27, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For many years, the Jewish people of Israel have been effectively paying the taxes of the Catholic Church and other churches in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel
Looking Back: The Bold Vision of Dr. Sidney Bolkosky Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News
admin | August 28, 2021
In August 1981, Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-D), conducted an interview with Salvatore and Lily Katan, Detroit-area survivors of the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation and Aspen Film host two-night event – Aspen Times
admin | August 22, 2021
The USC Shoah Foundation is will present two nights of film screenings and discussions in Aspen on Monday and Tuesday.
Polish scholars will not have to apologise for research into Shoah pogrom, court rules – Jewish News
admin | August 22, 2021
In a momentous ruling in the ongoing debate over Polish complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust, a Polish appeals court overturned a verdict that had ordered two historians to publicly apologise for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom. In their 2018 book Night Without an End, historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking wrote that that Edward Malinowski, the late mayor of the village of Malinowo, told Nazi officers where a group of Jews were hiding in a forest
Acher and the difficulties of teshuvah – The Jerusalem Post
admin | August 22, 2021
The Talmudic tractate Chagigah tells the tale of Rabbi Meir and his teacher Elisha ben Avuyah. Despite his teachers abandonment of Judaism and Elishas descent into heresy, Rabbi Meir would not abandon his mentor. Elisha was branded as Acher "Other by a Jewish community in the Land of Israel that had shunned the apostate and rebel.
Passenger Depicts the Holocaust from the Point of View of a Nazi Official – The New Yorker
admin | August 22, 2021
The crucial film in the retrospective of the Polish director Andrzej Munk that opens online today at Film at Lincoln Center is Passenger, one of the very few fiction films about Nazi death camps that neither vulgarizes the subject nor presumes easy dramatic access to it. Munk (who was born in 1920 or 1921) didnt live to complete the film; he died in a car crash in 1961, with much of the movie already in the can. His associates (principally Witold Lesiewicz) completed the film, or, rather, finished it in a way that reflects its fragmentary state while calling attention to Munks plans and ideas, and emphasizing the effort to realize them
Al Tapper to Open New Off Broadway Theater, The AMT Theater – Broadway World
admin | August 22, 2021
Al Tapper, the entrepreneur behind the hit documentaries "Broadway: The Golden Age" and "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy" announced he will be opening a new Off Broadway theater at 354 West 45th Street. The 99 seat house will be called The AMT Theater and will bring a new level of excitement to the Broadway area, focusing on new musicals, children's theater, new play development and cabaret. The composer/lyricist of the original musicals Sessions, An Evening at the Carlyle, National Pastime, All Aboard, The Paparazzi and Upside Down will also seek to strengthen international artistic ties between the United States and Mexico
