By David Solly Sandler PERTH, Australia — It all started in 1999 on a holiday to London, Israel and South Africa where I met up with many of my brothers and sisters from Arcadia, The South African Jewish Orphanage, where I had spent my childhood from age 3 to 17 (1956-1969). They entrusted me with their […]
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International, Jewish HistoryWashington (dpa) – White House spokesman Sean Spicer was forced to make multiple apologies Tuesday after he apparently overlooked the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler’s use of gas chambers to commit genocide against Jews. The gaffe occurred as Spicer compared Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his own people to Hitler’s actions in
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Jewish History, USABy Edwin Black SINAI DESERT — Approximately two million Children of Israel are now encamped in the Sinai following their extraordinary exodus from Egypt yesterday. Just days ago, they were slaves to Pharaoh. Today, they are free men and women, destined for self-determination in a land of their own. Only now are the details of
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Edwin Black, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionFrench far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied on Sunday that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews at a Paris cycling track who were then sent to Nazi death camps, AFP reports. Former President Jacques Chirac and current President Francois Hollande have both apologized for the role French police played
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International, Jewish HistoryHeir to the British throne meets UK Holocaust survivors during visit to Vienna, where he spoke about his ‘amazing’ relative saving Jews Auschwitz holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller speaks to the Duchess of Cornwall during her visit to The Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria on the ninth day of the Prince of Wales’s European tour. Photo
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By Grant Arthur Gochin LOS ANGELES — My Grandfather, a simple man from a small village in Lithuania, regularly spoke of his murdered Lithuanian family, murdered, each and every one of them, for their crime of being born a Jew. The murderers were never individually identified, they were termed as amorphous “Lithuanians”. The Holocaust in
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We can argue if it really happened, but there’s no doubt that the Exodus is a great story, with or without Hollywood stars or best selling authors. Yet it has also been associated with problems. The association of Passover and Easter brought forth an increase in Christian animosity and violence. Too
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastJustus Rosenberg worked for the American Rescue Committee, the French resistance, the US Army, and the UN, to clandestinely save thousands from the Nazis By Cathryn J. Prince Professor Justus Rosenberg receiving the French Legion of Honor from the French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud on Thursday, March 30, 2017. (Emily Stern) Justus
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TULSA, Oklahoma (WJC) — Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose 1961 poem about the Nazi massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev helped to expose rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, died Saturday at 84. Yevtushenko passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had been a faculty member at the University of Tulsa since the mid-1990s.Some 34,000 Jews were
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsA New York teacher has come under fire for giving an assignment asking students to debate the final solution from the Nazis’ point of view, The Algemeiner reported. In the assignment, titled “Top Secret: Memorandum for Senior Nazi Party Members,” students were asked to recreate the debate that took place at the infamous Wannsee Conference,
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Jewish History, USAJust prior to Pesach (Passover), the National Library of Israel revealed that it had acquired the velum Prague Haggadah two months ago, when the library purchased the famed Valmadonna Collection of Judaica. The Haggadah was printed in Prague in 1556. A previous Haggadah was printed in 1526, but no copy survived. Several elements of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastLehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am The entrance to the Lehi Museum, located on a street named for Avraham Stern in south Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Stern’s room in Tel Aviv, where
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By Jeffrey Sussman NEW YORK — Many people have asked me why I chose to write the book, Max Baer and Barney Ross: Jewish Heroes of Boxing, which was just published by Rowman and Littlefield. It’s a good question. Most people, Jews and non-Jews, have no idea that from 1910 to 1941, there were 628
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Fleeing From The Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees From the Nazis by Charmian Brinson and William Kaczynski; The History Press; © 2011; 191 pages including index; ISBN 9780752-461953; 17.99 British currency. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I must acknowledge cousins Herb and Susie Rheingruber’s kind gift of this book to me;
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