A museum exhibit opening Sunday recreates the historic Nazi war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, a former SS lieutenant-colonel convicted and executed for helping orchestrate the Holocaust. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan will let visitors re-live the 1961 court proceedings starting Sunday when an exhibit opens containing the bulletproof booth Eichmann sat […]
Author Stephen Senise says it’s no coincidence that Britain’s most infamous unsolved crime is alleged to have been committed by a Jew — it was planned that way all along By Robert Philpot LONDON — It is the greatest whodunit in British history. For nearly 130 years, writers, criminologists, historians and amateur sleuths have pondered
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryIf wars leave scars, then Poland has a deep red gash through its middle. For six years during World War II, the country was fought from both sides; the Soviet Union invaded from the east and Germany from the west. Five million Poles died during the war — that’s one-fifth of the population. Three million
Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community by H.G.Adler; Cambridge University Press, 2017 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — This monumental monograph, to which no book review can hope to do justice, comprises more than 850 pages and constitutes a far-reaching and detailed account, or rather scientific analysis, of the concentration camp that was
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish HistoryBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi just completed an official 3-day visit to Israel. The highly successful trip included agreements in the areas of technological innovation, water conservation, desalination, space technology, and more. There was also discussion about the more than 80,000 Jews who live in India, many of whom
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International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireIn addition to problems with Jewish law, where some in the scant Jewish community see a positive gesture, others see cultural insensitivity By Julie Masis PETRIKOV, Belarus — A few years ago, a monument to the local residents who perished during the Nazi occupation was built in the central park of the small town of
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International, Jewish HistoryArtwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar By Amanda Borschel-Dan Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth
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Jewish History, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump gave a brief history lesson on Poland’s recent invasions during a Warsaw speech Thursday. In a few brief lines, he discussed Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Soviet invasion of Poland. Ultimately, Trump deemed the attack was “tough.” Trump on Hitler and Stalin invading Poland: “That’s trouble. That’s tough.” pic.twitter.com/prE4uOhVnV — Bradd
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International, Jewish History, USAOfficials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland have criticized a Louisiana congressman who narrated a section of a video from inside one of the concentration camp’s gas chambers. Representative Clay Higgins posted the video Saturday. In it he pays tribute to those murdered in the camp, and says “Man’s inhumanity to man can
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International, Jewish History, USAJewish novelist says his ‘main task’ has been depicting ‘what happened in World War II and the Holocaust’ By Benjamin Kerstein The Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author Herman Wouk has published his latest and what he indicated was likely his last book at the age of 102. Interviewed by “ CBS Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Wouk
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish HistoryCompiled by Samuel Chessler Fund, Federation Merger OKd By Lou Lieblich, executive director Southwestern Jewish Press, September 11, 1958, Page 2 At consecutive meetings of the Boards of Directors of the Federation of Jewish Agencies and the United Jewish Fund, these two former arms of the San Diego Jewish community were merged into one on Sept.
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Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Sam Ben-Meir ROME, Italy – For international collage artist, Michael Anderson, Jean-Michel Basquiat is the single most significant artist of the last fifty years: “Picasso, Pollack, Basquiat,” he tells me. There is no denying the immense influence of this extraordinary painter, who in a short but meteoric career of seven years produced an astonishing
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-MeirA brief history of Jewish worship at Judaism’s holiest place of prayer, where, until it came under Israeli jurisdiction, a mixing of genders was the norm By Amanda Borschel-Dan From the mid-1800s, photographs of Jews praying together at the Western Wall became common on the walls of houses across the Western world. Today, a rich
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastA century after the murder of Leo Frank, ‘Parade’ — now staged in Chicago — is still a devastatingly relevant piece of drama By Ronit Bezalel Patrick Andrews and Brianna Borger in ‘Parade.’ (Michael Brosilow) CHICAGO — Chicagoland theater goers have a must-see play in their midst. Even a century after the events that inspired
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