President Barack Obama on Saturday night expressed his condolences over the passing of Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who was a close friend of Obama’s and who died earlier in the day at the age of 87. Wiesel, said Obama in a statement, “was one of the great moral voices of our time, and […]
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International, Jewish History, USATributes have been pouring in since news broke of the passing of world-renowned Holocaust survivor, writer, activist and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel on Saturday. Among those paying their respects were Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, who spoke of his immense sadness over Wiesel’s death, who he dubbed “a giant of humanity.” “Tonight we bid farewell
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastAuthor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at age 87, won the Noble Peace Prize in 1986 in recognition as “one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world.” Below is Wiesel’s full acceptance speech upon receiving the award, according to
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Jewish HistoryElie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor whose book Night became an important part of school curricula and was read by countless young people, died Saturday at 87, according to Haaretz.com. “My goal is to sensitize the desensitized, world leaders first among them,” Wiesel told Newsweek in 2008. Wiesel was absent from an event on May 5
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Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsPHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release) – The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) is a uniquely relevant destination for those visiting Philadelphia for the DNC. The Museum will be open every day the week of July 25 and will offer free admission to convention volunteers and 2-for-1 admission to convention attendees. Starting on June 28,
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Jewish History, USANEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to high-ranking Nazi officials, rather than returning the art to its rightful Jewish heirs. The investigation by the London-based Commission for Looted
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA US publisher of Adolf Hitler”s Nazi manifesto announced its decision to donate all proceeds to a local organization that works directly with aging Holocaust survivors, according to a Boston Globe report. The move comes after Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based publisher of one of the English translations of “Mein Kampf”, recently received criticism for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USAPalestinian terrorist kills 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bedroom (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bedroom on Thursday after infiltrating the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba in Samaria. The terrorist broke into the home of Hallel Yaffa Ariel and stabbed her, wounding her critically. She was
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Joel H. Cohen Jacob had an urgent, primal need To disperse his patriarchal seed. But doubted his wives’ ability When it came to their fertility. So Leah and Rachel deemed it fine For him to engage a concubine. If one is good, two are surely great, Jacob thought, to help him procreate. So effective
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SAN DIEGO — Feivel Wolgelernter, whose father Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter wrote the The Unfinished Diary: A Chronicle of Tears, which detailed his experiences hiding in Dzialoszyce, Poland from the German Nazis, will speak at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 28, at Congregation Adat Yeshurun, 8625 La Jolla Scenic Drive North. Feivel’s talk will be followed by a
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastKRASNAYA SLOBODA, Azerbaijan — “Not good,” Rabbi Yona Yaakobi says in Hebrew, expressing his distaste while pointing to a grave featuring a statue of a man who died in 1988. Carved in white marble, the nearly life-size statue of the deceased portrays him staring ahead, cane in hand, flanked by two pots of artificial flowers.
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International, Jewish HistoryStuttgart, Germany (dpa) – A lawmaker with the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party whose membership was under dispute said Tuesday that he will no longer be active in the group. Wolfgang Gedeon, a physician-turned-AfD-lawmaker in the wealthy southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, made the announcement after a party meeting that was originally supposed to decide
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SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about the March of the
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International, Jewish History, Marcia Tatz Wollner, San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (WJC) — Colette Avital, the head of the Center of Holocaust Survivor Organizations in Israel and a member of the Executive of the World Jewish Congress-Israel, expressed indignation and outrage over a program available on Google Play which invited users to “live like a real Jew in Auschwitz.” “We cannot understand how the top management of Google
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