Columbia University president and board chairs to testify before House committee investigating anti-Semitism – Campus Reform

| March 13, 2024

Leaders of Columbia University will testify at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on April 17. The House committee announced on March 11 that Columbia University President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik along with Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald will appear at the hearing, titled Columbia in Crisis: Columbia Universitys Response to Antisemitism.

Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war – Al Jazeera English

| March 13, 2024

Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she met Palestinians who had been born in Syria after their parents and grandparents fled there during the founding of her own country in 1948.

French police searching for suspect who assaulted man near Paris synagogue – The Times of Israel

| March 5, 2024

French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, says Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. Darmanin says the alleged attack on a man in his early 60s was a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris Friday evening. Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act, Darmanin says in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Holocaust museum gets trove of intimate stories of loss and survival – The Washington Post

| March 5, 2024

Erzsebet Barsony and her son, Ervin Fenyes, had been packed in a cattle car for three days en route to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. It was July 12, 1944, and very hot.

Rome: Jesuit archives on the Holocaust to be digitalized – Vatican News – English

| March 5, 2024

The Archive of the House of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus signs an agreement with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to digitize archival material related to the Holocaust. By Fr. Pawe Rytel-Andrianik On 27 February, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Fondazione Polanco - Archives of the Society of Jesus ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu) signed a cooperation agreement to share and digitize archival materials related to the Holocaust from the Jesuit archives dating from the period before, during and after World War II.

SHS sophomores dive deep into the Holocaust – Seymour Tribune

| March 5, 2024

Retired teacher, Charles Moman, speaks to sophomore at Seymour High School about the Holocaust and his experiences visiting Auschwitz. Erika Malone | The Tribune Retired music teacher Charles Moman of Seymour took this picture of Holocaust survivor Eva Kor holding a photo from the day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.

Movie review: Zone of Interest a startling perspective of Holocaust humanity – Daily Journal

| March 5, 2024

McDaniel On many lists of the best films of 2023, German-language Zone of Interest is the latest Oscar-nominated World War II movie. What sets it apart from other Holocaust dramas is we dont see the horrors inside the concentration camps next door.

RABBI – JewishEncyclopedia.com

| January 30, 2024

"Rabban," "Rabbi," and "Rab." The Title: Hebrew term used as a title for those who are distinguished for learning, who are the authoritative teachers of the Law, and who are the appointed spiritual heads of the community. It is derived from the noun , which in Biblical Hebrew means "great" or "distinguished," and in post-Biblical Hebrew, "master" in opposition to "slave" (Suk. ii.

Claude Lanzmann Changed the History of Filmmaking with Shoah

| December 27, 2023

Claude Lanzmann, one of the greatest filmmakers ever, died Thursday in Paris, at the age of ninety-two. His 1985 film Shoah, the crucial cinematic confrontation with the Holocaust (a word that Lanzmann hated), changed the history of cinema with its absolute absence of archival footage, with its incarnation of history in the present tense as a first-hand, first-person act of political engagement



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