COMMENTARY: Students should learn about the human impact of war – EdSource
admin | August 8, 2022
Credit: Mike Maguire/Flickr A rally for peace in Ukraine takes place outside the White House in Washington on Feb. 27
The Great Normalizer of Antisemitism the United Nations – Algemeiner
admin | August 8, 2022
In a moral institution, particularly one built in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Miloon Kothari would be long gone by now. During an interview with a notoriously antisemitic website, Mondoweiss, Kothari one of three members of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) against the Jewish state told the interviewer, [W]e are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by, whether its the Jewish Lobby or its the specific NGOs
France must do more to fight Jew hate, says Shoah survivor 80 years after Vel d’Hiv roundup – The Jewish Chronicle
admin | July 18, 2022
France must do more to fight Jew hate, says Shoah survivor 80 years after Vel d'Hiv roundup The Jewish Chronicle Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup WNYT NewsChannel 13 French Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Vel dHiv roundup of Jews The Times of Israel France's Macron decries rising hate, ignorance in Holocaust speech POLITICO Macron decries anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of Jewish deportations Reuters.com View Full Coverage on Google News
Names of the Holocaust – Wikipedia
admin | July 14, 2022
Names of the Holocaust vary based on context.
Israel and Austria Sign Strategic Pact to Upgrade Relations, Talk Iran Threat and Antisemitism – Algemeiner
admin | July 14, 2022
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Tuesday signed a comprehensive strategic partnership to boost cooperation in areas including security, cyber and counter-terrorism, and green tech. Signing this agreement is an important moment in the great history we have between our peoples, which will take relations between Israel and Austria to new heights, Lapid stated at the signing ceremony in Tel Aviv. The two leaders first met privately and then held an expanded meeting with staff, during which Lapid thanked Nehammer for his support of Israel in both the European Union and multilateral fora
Asserting Israel’s legitimacy then and now – JNS.org – JNS.org
admin | July 14, 2022
(July 11, 2022 / JNS) My organization, Im Tirtzu, has been pleased to partner with Canadians for Israels Legal Rights (CILR)and I have been privileged to personally take partin a series of highly informative webinars tracing the legal pillars that helped erect and stabilize the State of Israel. Starting with the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the San Remo Declaration in 1920 and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922, we can see a steady progression of aspirations, declarations and then formal mandates that enshrined and nurtured a Jewish presence, nay, a homeland in historic Eretz Yisrael. We can discuss and debate the motivations and the thinking behind the great powers decision to carve out and designate a sovereign land for the Jewish people
Even an Ordinary Road Can Lead All Too Easily to a Concentration Camp – The Wire
admin | July 10, 2022
A dark night. A moving trains headlights bounce off the thick veil of fog hanging over the tracks, seemingly impenetrable.
Documentary lineup announced for New Views series of films, conversations – The Aspen Times
admin | July 10, 2022
This years film lineup for the Eisner/Lauder New Views Documentaries and Dialogue Series features screenings of three acclaimed documentaries plus conversations with special guests at the Isis Theatre in Aspen, according to a July 7 announcement from Aspen Film and the Aspen Institute Arts Program.
Donato Di Veroli, the last of Rome’s Jews to survive the Holocaust, dies at 98 – Wanted in Rome
admin | July 4, 2022
Donato Di Veroli, the last Roman Jew to survive the Holocaust, has died in the Italian capital aged 98, the city's Jewish community announced on Monday.
AI identifies rocker Geddy Lees mother in Holocaust photos – The Times of Israel
admin | July 4, 2022
JTA Rockstar Geddy Lee found never-before-seen photos of his mothers family thanks to a new effort to apply artificial intelligence facial recognition technology to photographs from the Holocaust. Lees mother, Holocaust survivor Mary Weinrib, died last summer at 95 years old. But the researchers of the AI technology, From Numbers to Names, managed to find a photo of Weinrib from her time at the displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen a photo that then led Lee to find other photos of his mothers extended family from the Yad Vashem photo collection
