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A group of bipartisan, bicameral members of Congress will introduce the "Countering Antisemitism Act" on Wednesday, which aims to increase federal efforts from the White House to the Department of Education to tackle the rise in antisemitism across the country. The bill is sponsored by the co-chairs of the Senate and House Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) along with Reps
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admin | March 30, 2024
Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama alongside Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama alongside Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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admin | March 30, 2024
President Carol Folt honored Holocaust survivors and the Shoah Foundation Monday for its outstanding leadership in preserving the testimonies of the Holocaust during a private event at Town and Gown.
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admin | March 30, 2024
President Carol Folt presented Holocaust survivors and leaders of the Shoah Foundation The Institute for Visual History and Education with the University Medallion, the fourth time USC has awarded this recognition in its history. The ceremony recognized the Shoah Foundations 30th anniversary and honored the over 30 Holocaust survivors in attendance
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admin | March 30, 2024
(March 25, 2024 / JNS) Master tailor Martin Greenfield gained a national reputation over the generations with his brand of fitted suits and mens clothing worn by U.S. presidents and Hollywood celebrities alike.
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admin | March 30, 2024
This article is alsoavailable as a weeklynewsletter, Life Stories, wherewe remember those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world or just left their community a better or more interesting place. Subscribe here to get Life Stories in your inbox every Tuesday. In the 1980s, an Auschwitz survivor brought his damaged violin to the Tel Aviv workshop of Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein.
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admin | March 30, 2024
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Steven Spielberg warned that the machinery of extremism is being used on college campuses and lamented those killed in Israel and Gaza while being honored for his Holocaust remembrance work at the University of Southern California.
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admin | March 30, 2024
Jewish holidays are often turned into a mask by anti-Zionist progressive Jews. Hiding behind Jewish aesthetics, they feel they have the freedom to attack Israel and the majority of Jews who are Zionist. Yet while these actors are comfortable wearing the costume of well-known Hanukkah and respectable Passover, they seem to be embarrassed by Purim
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admin | March 21, 2024
As the official death toll in Gaza passes 31,000 people, including more than 13,000 children, the Israeli state is continuing its mass-killing operations in the besieged strip. The U.N. secretary-general is warning that famine is spreading in Gaza, and Tel Aviv remains defiantly committed to its distinctly offensive war of collective punishment
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admin | March 21, 2024
Early this month, protesters confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a Brooklyn theater, demanding that she call the Israel-Gaza war a genocide.
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