It’s 2017. Shouldn’t companies know by now that it’s a really, really bad idea to sell clothing that looks like it was inspired by the Holocaust? During World War II, six million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime—gassed, shot, hung, starved, beaten. But the saga of Holocaust fashion disasters continues, this time at […]
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Jewish HistoryIsraeli, Australian and New Zealand leaders gathered in southern Israel on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of a key cavalry charge that helped clear the way to Jerusalem during World War I. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was joined by his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull and New Zealand Governor-General Patsy Reddy in Beersheba, where the
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastPlans by Germany’s national rail provider to name a train after Jewish diarist Anne Frank came under fire Monday, with a foundation saying it “caused new pain” to those who experienced deportations. “The (train’s) naming is controversial,” the Anne Frank Foundation said of the plans by Deutsche Bahn. “A combination of Anne Frank and a
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International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego State University lecturer, Dr. Bonnie Harris, recently collaborated with award-winning filmmaker Noel “Sonny” Izon to create the documentary An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines. Harris, who is a Holocaust scholar, acted as the film’s associate producer and consulting historian. The documentary is based in part on research
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CalendarBy TOI staff In the forthcoming episode of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” American Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson discovers the tragic fate of her relatives who died in the Holocaust. Johansson is overcome by emotion when she learns for the first time that her great uncle died in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Julie Masis It is now 100 years since the revolution that brought down the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. For Jews, the fall of Tsarist Russia meant a new relative freedom: the end to the Pale of Settlement, which had prevented Jews from living in big cities, and the abolition of all other anti-Semitic laws,
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International, Jewish HistorySeated onstage at a museum near Chicago, Adina Sella talks about her life as a Holocaust survivor. A group of young school kids is entranced — all the more so because Sella is not actually there. Her likeness is being beamed in the form of an interactive and moving hologram, part of a first-of-its-kind exhibition
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Jewish History, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — A French priest whose work has uncovered millions of previously unknown victims of the Nazi genocide was awarded the Lantos Foundation’s Human Rights Prize on Thursday morning, named for the Holocaust survivor and longtime California congressman. Father Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic clergyman who teaches at Georgetown University’s Program for
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International, Jewish History, USAThe first Arab recognised by Israel’s Holocaust memorial as a hero for risking his life to save Jews during World War II will finally be presented with the honour after a four-year delay. Egyptian doctor Mohammed Helmy will be presented posthumously with the “Righteous Among the Nations” medal and certificate at a ceremony on Thursday
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Renee Ghert-Zand Every time one of Arthur Adler’s grandchildren had a bar or bat mitzvah, he brought along the Bible he received at his own bar mitzvah at Amsterdam’s Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in March 1939. Adler’s bar mitzah was not arranged by his parents, but instead by a non-Jewish Dutch woman named Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer
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International, Jewish History[twittervideo:2034193] An American filmmaker is under fire for comments she made in a television interview regarding the role Jewish tradition played in the Holocaust. Heidi Ewing, a documentary director best known for the Academy Award-nominated Jesus Camp and Freakonomics, was interviewed by Charlie Rose last Thursday, discussing among other, things her latest film, One of
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — On Thursday, Oct. 26, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, will hold a joint event marking the conclusion of a decade-long project collecting names of Holocaust victims from Greater Hungary with the French Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah). This major project
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastA note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem. The year was 1922, and the German-born physicist, most famous for his theory of relativity, was on a lecture tour in Japan. He had recently
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International, Jewish HistoryAnna Selman A recent study from the Department of Veterans’ Administration (VA) found that the daily number of American veterans who commit suicide has decreased from 22 to 20 a day — a small improvement, but a step in the right direction. The leading cause of veteran suicide is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a
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