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Documentary Explains The Butterfly Project – San Diego Jewish World

| June 3, 2021

By Jeffery Giesener CARLSBAD, California Jan Landau started The Butterfly Project in 2006 at the San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA). Jan had been inspired by the Holocaust poem The Butterfly. After World War 11, the butterfly became a symbol of hope for survivors, that there can be renewed life, that there can be hope and transformation

From the Community | Jews call ‘antisemitism’ while new atrocities unfold in our name – The Stanford Daily

| June 3, 2021

Referring to someone as a shanda fur die Goyim literally, a shame before the goyim [non-Jews], is not to be taken lightly. Jews use the Yiddish phrase to describe other Jews that reflect poorly on the Jewish people, who reaffirm the most harmful stereotypes about us and give ammunition to those who would see us destroyed.

Meet Manfred Kirchheimer, the greatest documentary maker youve probably never have heard of – The Guardian

| June 3, 2021

Manfred Kirchheimer, the USs least-known great documentarian, may be 90 years old, but his memory is as sharp as a knife. I wasnt always a film aficionado, he recalls. Then, in 1949, I was at Manhattans City College and the students were on strike against two professors one antisemite, the other anti-black

Oys in the hood! Drama explores the Jewish mafia which ruled pre-Shoah Warsaw – Jewish News

| May 29, 2021

Left as a smouldering heap of ruins after the Second World War, Warsaw was virtually razed to the ground, while the Polish capitals once flourishing Jewish population suffered a blow from whichit would never recover. Indeed, of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, halfwere Polish.

80th Farhud anniversary: A precursor to 2021 violent international antisemitism – The Times of Israel

| May 29, 2021

The Wiesenthal Centre is proud to join 26 organizations, led by HARIF, the UK-based Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on 30 May, to commemorate, the 1 June 1941, Farhud Baghdad pogrom against its 2,700-year-old Jewish community. 80 years ago, Nazi Germany inspired then Iraqi Prime Minister, Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani, to unleash the Farhud (violent dispossession in Arabic), reportedly leaving over 180 Jews murdered, some 600 unknown bodies in a mass grave, 700 wounded, rapes and destruction of Jewish properties. The British Ambassador, apparently, failed to carry out orders from London and requests from British military nearby to act against the mobs.

There is still so much hatred: looking back on Holocaust documentary The Last Days – The Guardian

| May 25, 2021

The last time June Beallor saw the Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt, they watched Sex and the City together. That was 20 years ago. Beallor is one of the producers behind The Last Days, the Oscar-winning 1998 documentary executive-produced by Steven Spielberg about the Hungarian Jewish experience during the Holocaust, which has now been remastered and re-released on Netflix.

The Rabbis and Their Conception of Evil as a Challenge – The Great Courses Daily News

| May 25, 2021

By Charles Mathewes, Ph.D., University of VirginiaThe rabbis believe that evil is a challenge that must be faced on a daily basis. (Image: greiss design/Shutterstock)Facing Evil as a Challenge to Be Overcome Evil should be faced as a challenge whose successful overcoming on a daily basis will strengthen and deepen the person in their wisdom and their faith.

As a ceasefire takes hold in Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians remain two peoples haunted by their own history – ABC News

| May 25, 2021

Jacques Derrida spoke of people who have the bread of apocalypse in their mouths. These are the people formed by history haunted by history, as Derrida would have seen it

James Moll talks The Last Days – Solzy at the Movies

| May 25, 2021

James Moll, Founding Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, spoke about The Last Days.

Former Nazis give their ‘Final Account’ in new documentary J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| May 25, 2021

There is a remarkable scene toward the end of the new documentary Final Account, a collection of eyewitness testimonies from elderly Germans and Austrians who remember the Nazi regime (and, to various degrees, were part of it).


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