admin | April 11, 2024
There are great reasons to consider taking a gap year to Israel right now. Consider these as you and your teen contemplate how to spend your time this coming Fall
admin | April 11, 2024
A group of anti-Zionist Jewish artists is withdrawing artwork they submitted for the forthcoming California Jewish Open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, citing the institutions inability to meet artists demands, including transparency around funding and a commitment to BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions]. In a statement on Thursday, April 4, California Jewish Artists for Palestine added that the CJM has been a target of the BDS Movement for having received funding directly from the State of Israel as well as private zionist philanthropists. The statement was signed by 11 artists, including seven whose work had originally been accepted into the exhibition and four whose work had not: Micah Bazant, Liat Berdugo, Jules Cowan, Rebekah Erev, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Sophia Sobko, Arielle Tonkin, and Irina Zadov
admin | April 11, 2024
Rare postcard, Hanadiv [philanthropist] Natan Straus.
admin | April 11, 2024
Lena Dunham made the emotional discovery that her family has connections to the Holocaust during last weeks episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that Dunhams great-great-grandmother Regina Seltenwirth came to the US alone at just 14 years old, leaving 11 siblings behind in Europe
admin | April 11, 2024
A Latet volunteer visits a Holocaust survivor. (Courtesy of Latet) After undergoing essential hip surgery that left Holocaust survivor Vyacheslav last name withheld for anonymity wheelchair-bound, the 89-year-old man struggled with new mobility limitations within his own bathroom. That was until he received free home repairs for mobility accommodation from Latet Israeli Humanitarian Aid, a grantee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
admin | April 11, 2024
With just over three weeks to go until The Tattooist of Auschwitz premieres on Peacock, a new trailer has been released for the limited drama series. Based on Heather Morris 2018 bestselling novel, the series tells the powerful true story of holocaust survivor Lali Sokolov (Harvey Keitel and Jonah Hauer-King), a prisoner who was given the job of tattooing ID numbers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, as he relives the trauma of his youth and his memories of falling in love after finding the courage to tell his story to a novice writer
admin | April 11, 2024
I remember how our Israeli Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu, told Holocaust survivors at an elderly home,The Holocaust happened because there was no State of Israel. If there had been a Jewish state before, there would have been no Holocaust. Later, he would tell the whole world while speaking from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum that the Jewish state has learned the lessons of the Holocaust
admin | April 11, 2024
In Hulus limited-series We Were the Lucky Ones, the Kurc family in Poland is separated during World War II and spends years trying to reunite. This was before the Internet and cell phones so tracking each others whereabouts was hard. Its based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, who wrote about her own familys story.
admin | April 11, 2024
originally published: 04/10/2024 (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- When the threat of genocide ran rampant in Europe and around the globe during World War II, was American intervention adequate, or even possible? See the Holocaust in the context of the time during "Combatting Hate: America and the Holocaust" at the Ocean County Library Toms River Branch on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The event begins at 6:30pm
admin | April 11, 2024
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa (WHP) UPDATE | The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley area is now confirming specific areas that were also targeted with bomb threats related to the Harrisburg incident. A release was sent out by members of the organization, stating that a threatening hoax email was sent to the Allentown Jewish Federation's inbox, along with branches in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh
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