Los Angeles (dpa) – Two Renaissance paintings seized by the Nazis during World War II will remain the property of a California museum after a US court Monday ruled against a claim by the family of the Jewish art dealer from whom they were taken. Judge John F Walter of the US District Court in […]
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThe wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee for vice-president, recently visited the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Jeshuat Israel, the congregation that is housed in the Touro Synagogue building, was recently in the news as a result of its winning a lawsuit against Congregation Shearith Israel of New York
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Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USALOS ANGELES — Actors gravitate toward passion projects, films they care deeply, even obsessively about, but the result is seldom as convincing as “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a film of beautiful melancholy written, directed by and starring Natalie Portman. A Hebrew-language film based on the celebrated memoir by Israeli novelist Amos Oz, “Love
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Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIt’s hard to find words to describe an abomination like Auschwitz, the infamous Holocaust death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. However, if you choose the wrong words, you might soon end up in jail. This week Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party pushed for a new law that would forbid the use of phrases like
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MOSCOW (Press Release)– Limmud FSU, in partnership with the Shem Olam Institute and the Nativ organization, will host a rare photographic survey of the life of Elie Wiesel, from Aug. 24 until the end of September at the Israeli Cultural Center in Moscow. An array of VIPs will participate the opening of the exhibition, including the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAThe Polish government is pushing to outlaw references linking Nazi war crimes with the people of Poland, the country’s public broadcaster PR reports. The German Nazi government’s invasion and occupation of Poland in the autumn of 1939 is widely regarded as the start of World War II. Several of Nazi death camps used in the
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International, Jewish HistoryCHESAPEAKE CITY, Md., Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — An official torch from the notorious 1936 Olympics held in Berlin will be offered for sale in Maryland on August 23-24 by Alexander Historical Auctions. The 10 ½” tall steel torch was designed by the firm of Walter E. Lemcke and made by the enormous German war
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International, Jewish History, Sports & CompetitionsBratislava (dpa) – A factory in the Czech Republic once used by Oskar Schindler, a business owner whose solidarity with Jews in World War II was the subject of an Oscar-winning film, could be made into a Holocaust memorial, the Novinky.cz news website reported on Monday. The site was bought by the Endowment Fund Memorial
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International, Jewish HistoryOne generation from now, it may be impossible to hear firsthand stories of the Holocaust. Seventy-one years after the end of World War II, there’s a growing urgency to preserve the stories of survivors. A new museum in Brooklyn is trying to do just that. But the Amud Aish Holocaust Museum and Memorial is a
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On December 23, 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush, about to leave office, exercised his right of forgiveness by pardoning 19 Americans convicted of crimes. One pardon, granted posthumously, went to Charles Winters, Irish Protestant from Boston who in January 1949, pleading guilty to a felony before
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Eulogy by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal (Delivered August 8, 2016 at Mount Sinai Cemetery, Los Angeles) One of the editors of the Book of Proverbs has preserved for us a striking metaphor which conveys to us a profound insight into the purpose of life. He tells us: Ner hashem nishmat adam. The soul of a person
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyLUDWIGSBURG, Germany (JNS.org) Germany’s lead Nazi crimes investigator has identified eight people who are suspected of working at concentration camps in Poland during the Holocaust. The head of Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Ludwigsburg, Jens Rommel, told German news agencyDPA that information about the eight elderly suspects, four men and
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