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Cologne’s amazing Jewish culture

May 28, 2018

By Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — In 1933 Cologne counted 20,000 Jews. In 1989 it had 1,358 Jews. Today the city of over a million, with the influx of Jews from the Former Soviet Union, has about 4,600 Jews.The Holocaust produced catastrophic trauma. Post-war Germany maintains a leading position in rescuing people from persecution in their homelands, many from majority Moslem […]

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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Book- packing through World War II Europe

May 25, 2018

© Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — I took four books with 1939-1942 hooks on our Germany-Prague-Vienna trip, more than I usually take, and no New Yorker. The recent article by Alex Ross, “How American Racism Influenced Hitler,” was an almost take it along, but it’s on line. My wife gave me the usual caring

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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak

Royal wedding invoked Hebrew imagery

May 24, 2018

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As befits an English woman living abroad, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on television, and reveled in the pomp and circumstance of each shot and every angle. I loved the sight of the beautiful mixed-race bride, her dress, the bridesmaids and page-boys, the various

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Bernard Lewis mourned by fellow scholars

May 24, 2018

BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania (Press Release) — Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has issued a statement mourning the passing of Professor Bernard Lewis who died on May 19th in Voorhees, New Jersey at 101. Lewis was born in London, and served in the British army in World War II. He devoted his entire career to

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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA

2 birthdays, 18 days and a lifetime apart

May 23, 2018

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — As an American-born kid trying to absorb the full horror and magnitude of the Holocaust, I’d sit in a crowded baseball stadium and imagine the thousands of us being rounded up and marched to a concentration camp. Then, obsessively, I’d try to calculate how many spectator-packed stadiums it

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International, Jewish History, Joel H. Cohen

Traveling in our Parents’ Footsteps

May 23, 2018

© Oliver B. Pollak FRANKFURT, Germany — Flying in a jet for three hours or more, reading above the clouds, I encounter new and old ideas. I mark my books, take notes and write at 33,000 feet. Completely unmoored from landform and architecture, floating or hurtling at 560 to 615 miles per hour, is exhilarating. Karen

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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Church move to honor Hlond ‘concerns’ AJC

May 23, 2018

NEW YORK (Press Release) – In a letter to the Vatican, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has expressed profound concerns regarding the Pope’s announcement recognizing Cardinal August Hlond, the Polish Primate during World War II, as having “heroic virtues” – a stage towards being made a saint. Moving forward with the canonization process “will be

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International, Jewish History, USA

Sun Valley’s Jews and anti- Semites

May 22, 2018

By Jerry Klinger KETCHUM, Idah0 — The other day, Emily Sue, a dear friend from Spokane, wrote to me she was headed to visit her kin at their family’s Sheep Ranch in Howe, Idaho. She was planning on a side trip to the annual Trailing of the Sheep festival in Ketchum, Idaho. I had never

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA

Joseph ‘Chickie’ Glickman, 102

May 22, 2018

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Joseph “Chickie” Glickman, a philanthropist who was days away from his 103rd birthday, died at his home in La Jolla on Monday, May 21. Private funeral services were scheduled, with family members planning to observe shiva on Wednesday at a private residence The youngest of nine children, Glickman was raised in Minneapolis,

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County

Jewish trivia quiz: Tikkun Leil Shavuot

May 21, 2018

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — One of the traditions of Shavuot is the all night Torah study session known as the Tikkun Leil Shavuot, meaning Rectification (or Repair) for Shavuot Night. What are the roots of this custom? A. The practice of the Tikkun Leil Shavuot was put forth by Rabbi Isaac Luria

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Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Every day is Memorial Day at Tel Shalom

May 21, 2018

© Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — My academic introduction to Jewish cemeteries dates back to a paper delivered by Iowa State University anthropology professor David Gradwohl at the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha in the late 1970s. Ritual burial and respect for the dead are integral to the Jewish faith. Grave stones are

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Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, USA

Evangelical Christians and the U.S. Embassy in Israel

May 21, 2018

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas spoke these words at the opening ceremony of the United States embassy in Jerusalem: “We come before you, the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, thanking you for bringing us to this momentous occasion in the life of your people and in the history

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Jewish communal leader Shoshana Cardin mourned

May 21, 2018

BALTIMORE, Maryland (Press Release) –Shoshana Cardin, a trailblazing leader of the American Jewish community, died May 18 in her home in Baltimore. She was 91 years old. “Shoshana Cardin was a natural leader of the Jewish people at a critical time in our history,” said American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris. Cardin had served as

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International, Obituaries & memorials, USA

Cheesecake cups and ‘yetzers’

May 20, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel of Temple Beth Shalom in Chula Vista recently told me of a conversation he had with a young woman working behind the counter of an ice cream shop. Noting her unhappy expression, he told her that she should be very proud of the work

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

Cologne’s amazing Jewish culture

Book- packing through World War II Europe

Royal wedding invoked Hebrew imagery

Bernard Lewis mourned by fellow scholars

2 birthdays, 18 days and a lifetime apart

Traveling in our Parents’ Footsteps

Church move to honor Hlond ‘concerns’ AJC

Sun Valley’s Jews and anti- Semites

Joseph ‘Chickie’ Glickman, 102

Jewish trivia quiz: Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Every day is Memorial Day at Tel Shalom

Evangelical Christians and the U.S. Embassy in Israel

Jewish communal leader Shoshana Cardin mourned

Cheesecake cups and ‘yetzers’

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