By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “You’re a liar. Get out of my classroom!” These words were hurled at Danna Horwood, during a recent presentation of her grandparents’ life story. Sentiments such as these have caused Horwood to take up the mantle and teach our youth about the Holocaust, so that it can never […]
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Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims flocked to Hevron on Monday for a rare opportunity to visit the tomb of Othniel ben Kenaz, the first of the Jewish judges to rule the Israelites after the death of Joshua. The tomb is located in the Palestinian-controlled section of Hevron (which encompasses the vast majority of the holy city),
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Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre pledges to rename a street and a park that honor a Nazi sympathizer who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. Alexis Carrel, a pioneering research scientist, surgeon and biologist from France faced criticism toward the end of his life over his involvement with the Nazis. He died in 1944.
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International, Jewish HistoryThe Jewish community in Nigeria celebrated a very special Passover this year. Thanks to a unique collaboration between the local Chabad and the EMI SYSTEMS LTD, Nigerian Security Company owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Mesika, a kosher Passover seder was held for the first time in six major cities across the African nation, led by
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BOSTON – On a late spring day nearly 100 years ago, Louis D. Brandeis arrived home from his law office and was greeted by his wife Alice with the words, “Good evening Mr. Justice Brandeis.” The announcement of the confirmation of the first Jewish associate justice to the US Supreme Court came earlier that afternoon,
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO –Passover in the 21st Century presents Jewish people with new dilemmas unimagined in previous eras: Should I have regular white flour matzah, whole wheat matzah, egg matzah, any of the flavored matzahs, and more recently “gluten free matzah.” We also have the choice of salted or unsalted matzah, domestic or
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & SatireI don’t know if Mordechai Ronen is familiar with the philosophy of the late Emil Fackenheim, famed University of Toronto professor. But he seems to have absorbed Fackenheim’s most cited dictum that after the Holocaust Jews are commanded to survive in order to deprive Hitler of a posthumous victory. Hitler’s aim was to erase the
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International, Jewish HistoryFrom Within the Tents: The Sabbath Prayers, Essays by the Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University edited by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Dr. Stuart W. Halpern; Maggid Books, New Milford, CT; ISBN 978-1-59264-446-9 ©2014, $29.95, p. 295 plus Appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –Hermann Cohen, arguably the greatest German-Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish HistoryBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It came as something of a shock to me a few years ago to hear that there are some people who have mixed feelings about celebrating the Jewish festival known as Passover (Pesach). For someone like myself who quite likes eating matza this seems strange. But then I
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Thanks to Phil Snyder for finding this video and passing it along. And thanks also too Nina Paley for creating it!
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Many bar- and bat-mitzvah kids mark their special day by doing something to “give back” to the community – volunteering in a soup kitchen, or raising money for a new TV at a senior citizen’s center. Raising $76,000 to establish Israel’s first mobile printing lab, replete with brand new 3D printers and other equipment, would
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
As part of Israel”s UN Ambassador Danny Danon”s ongoing battle to improve Israel”s image at the United Nations, he hosted on Friday the first ever Passover Seder at the UN. By doing so, Danon sought to expose the ambassadors in attendance to this beloved Jewish tradition. About 40 ambassadors, senior UN officials, and even one
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Passover is the best gift the Jewish people ever gave to the world; nobody who was ever a human being could turn down its message of freedom, its transformation of the taste of tears into the wine of hope, its view of the leaves of parsley as the
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Jewish ReligionZURICH, Switzterland (WJC)– The former leader of the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), Christoph Blocher, caused an outcry over the weekend after comparing the treatment of his party in a controversial referendum campaign to that of the Jews in Nazi Germany. A majority of Swiss voters recently rejected the SVP’s initiative which called for the
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