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(April 18, 2024 / JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by the family of President Isaac Herzog. The Pesachim Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been in the familys possession for the last eight decades; it will be permanently displayed at the museum in Jerusalem.
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Stand for Israel | April 19, 2024 Even as the Jewish state faces threats on all sides, Jewish people around the world are also facing anti-Semitism unlike anything theyve faced in decades.
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Pittsburghers soon will get to experience an award-winning cross-pollination of Yiddish music with testimonies from women who survived the Holocaust. To mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Rodef Shalom Congregation will host on May 5 the Pittsburgh premiere of Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, whose music in 2023 hit No. 1 the first Yiddish-language album ever to do that on World Music Charts Europe.
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Holocaust survivor Albert Farhy spoke to students at Canon-McMillan High School about his experience. Albert Farhy was a child living in Bulgaria when Adolf Hitler came to power. He spoke to Canon-McMillan High School students about his experience.
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(JTA) As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark Universitys Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP Stockton University celebrated the 30th anniversary of the state's Holocaust and genocide education mandate Monday. The event featured several speakers who gave remarks in the Campus Center's event room about the mandate and its impact on the university. Holocaust survivors, students and faculty were among those in attendance.
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There was a significant drop in the number of schools and organisations that took part in Holocaust Memorial Day this year, due to unprecedented challenges engaging people due to October 7, organisers said. Uptake dropped by nearly 20 per cent compared to last year in marking the one day in the British calendar that commemorates victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
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Taipei, April 17 (CNA) Israel and Germany's top representatives to Taiwan on Wednesday warned of rising antisemitism around the globe as both countries remembered victims and survivors of the Holocaust during an annual memorial event in Taipei attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (). Speaking during her address at the event held at the Taipei Guest House, Israel's representative to Taiwan Maya Yaron said the memorial was held at "a time of great sorrow and tension, when antisemitism and violence are evident in so many places in our world." According to Yaron, 2023 marked the year with the highest number of antisemitic incidents around the world for many years, not only on social media platforms but also in terms of direct physical assaults.
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The main action in Irenas Vow is triggered by a chilling scene in a Polish street where a Nazi officer murders a baby in front of its mother. Chilling but predictable: This new Holocaust drama about a Polish nurse who successfully hid a dozen Jews in the home of a Nazi commander treads familiar ground. A co-production between Poland and Canada, lead by Quebec director Louise Archambault and written by Canadian Dan Gordon based on his own play, it includes many scenes where the tension feels rote.
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admin | April 20, 2024
The new film Irenas Vow tells the amazing true story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Sophie Nlisse), a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. Irena was 17 years old and a nursing student living away from home when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland in 1939
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