admin | November 17, 2020
Time has a tendency to flatten historys darkest chapters, reducing panic and persecution to footnotes and caricature. So it goes with Adolf Hitler, whose outsized image as a cartoon villain often obscures the horrifying endurance of Nazi ideology today.
admin | November 17, 2020
Netflix's The Liberator tells the true story of U.S. soldier Felix Sparks, so what happened to him after World War II?
admin | November 5, 2020
The Anti-Defamation League has joined the campaign against the appointment of Effi Eitam, a former far-right politician and military commander, to the top position at Yad Vashem, citing his problematic moral record.
admin | November 3, 2020
Israeli Holocaust survivor organisations are calling the man nominated to lead the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum unfit for the job.
admin | November 3, 2020
We gather, soon, not to praise Caesar, but to elevate ones like him to high offices. We gather in November to examine the new, perhaps bury the old, and ask for change. For a turn around, maybe even for repentance
admin | November 3, 2020
Photo Credit: unsplash {Reposted from the authors Emet mTsiyon blog} We have shown that Roosevelt [Saint FDR, in the bon mot of Lawrence Lipton in theLA Free Press circa 1963] was a silent partner in the Shoah. Of course young people may think that that was a long time ago.
admin | November 3, 2020
What happens when memory fails to pass from one generation to the next? That is the question that University of Chicago professors LeoraAuslander, Christine Mehring, and David Levin grappled with in the second seminar of theDeep Dive: Tom StoppardsLeopoldstadtseries at Court Theatre
admin | November 3, 2020
I have known Joe Biden for a very long time watched him from afar and worked with him up close and I can tell you with certainty he will make a great president.If you and all your friends will just get out and vote, that is.It is no longer a question for whom American Jews will vote next week the most reliable polls put Bidens share between 70 and 75 percent of our community but rather if even more and of even more import, turnout.Its easy to see why.Vice President Biden has for decades stood with Israel, combated antisemitism, and fought for the same sense of social justice I learned in shul and at home. As president, he will continue to safeguard the Jewish state, the Jewish people, Jewish values, and guarantee the unbreakable support of the United States.And you know what
admin | November 3, 2020
The Eternal One said to Abram: Go forth from your native landto the place that I will show you. (Genesis 12:1) This Shabbat, we will once again read the well-known Parashat Hashavua of Lech-Lechah, which includes the Divines call to our ancestor Abram (later to become known Avraham) to leave his ancestral home and begin his lifes journey and sacred work
admin | October 21, 2020
Two Jewish cemeteries and a Holocaust memorial were vandalised in Greece. The most serious incident, which involved the smashing of several headstones, occurred at the Jewish cemetery on the island of Rhodes on Oct. 11, the Politismika news site reported on Monday
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