JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Sharaka, a non-governmental initiative that grows the impact of the Abraham Accords by transforming the vision of people-to-people peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors into a reality, brought 22 Arab participants to this year’s International March of the Living in Poland as part of a first-of-its-kind year-long program that promotes
Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The social and political climate in the United States has become fertile ground for antisemitism in recent years, according to a report released on Monday by advocacy group Anti-Defamation League and the Tel Aviv University. Expressions of hatred against Jews have become “mainstreamed and normalized,” and
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Something that never ceases to amaze (and annoy) me is the extent to which various euphemisms are used to describe what happened in the Holocaust to 6 million Jews. Why is everyone — whether individuals, politicians or scholars — so reluctant to use the correct term: murder? For
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Holocaust, International, Opinion
We offer these tidbits from the weekend and Monday news involving members of the Jewish community [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Holocaust did not simply end the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. Survivors torn from their homes, their families, and their health, needed to be nursed back into physical and mental health and resettled in countries where they would be accepted and given a chance to reconstruct their lives. One San Diegan who was intimately involved in this process was Army Lt. Al Hutler, a Jew whose compassionate administration of a Displaced Persons camp helped thousands of people make those adjustments. After leaving the Army, Hutler moved to San Diego where he served as the executive director of the Jewish Federation from 1946 to 1958. He was among those San Diegans who put out the welcoming mat for the survivors of the Nazi scourge. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, San Diego County
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — Many schools across Israel distribute yahrzeit candles for students and their families to light on the evening of Yom Hashoah. Affixed to the candle is the name of a Holocaust victim and a QR code (a type of barcode) which one can scan to learn about that person. As 6
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Gedaliah Borvick, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), a Black composer unfamiliar to most concert goers, wrote a delightful Sinfonietta for Strings, the opening selection in the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday evening concert at the Conrad in La Jolla. The three-movement work, Sonata Allegro, Song Form, Rondo, consisted of standard classical
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Eileen Wingard, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel is currently in an interim period of religious and national holidays which will be over by the end of May. The Knesset is on vacation while hopefully intense negotiations are being held in President Herzog’s residence, seeking to compromise on the proposed judicial system legislation. These negotiations
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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
“We are welcoming Fanny Krasner Lebovits up to the stage again. When a 100-year-old Survivor says that she would like to sing, she sings!.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — On December 21, 1935, the German writer and publicist Kurt Tucholsky passed away in the Swedish Gothenburg. He was 45 years old. Kurt Tucholsky, a satirist writer, the owner of a brilliant pen, a songwriter, did not write a single line during the last four years of his stay
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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion
As Shabbat nears, here are glimpses of how members of the Jewish community ae making news in the realms of politics, sports, and entertainment. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish Celebrities, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, The Arts, USA
The recent passing of Topol, the Israeli actor who played Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, evoked a lot of Fiddler-related memories. Including Topol and beginning at Zero Mostel, I’ve seen at least five actors in the role, each with his own likeable take. [Joel H. Cohen]
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Israel, Jewish Celebrities, Joel H. Cohen, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Published by Raw Story A Jan. 6 rioter who has praised Adolf Hitler and expressed support for Nazi ideology was sentenced to three years in prison this Thursday for possessing unregistered firearm silencers, The Washington Post reported. U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff said that Hatchet M. Speed, 41, betrayed “everything he pledged to protect”
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Published by Reuters By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air Force National Guard accused of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online made his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston on Friday to face charges he unlawfully removed and retained classified materials. Jack Douglas