Jewish History

Lucy Friedlander Covington preserved Native American life

Lucy Friedlander Covington was extraordinary. Her grandfather Herman Friedlander was Jewish and her grandmother an Entiat tribal woman. According to Lucy, neither of the couple learned the other’s language, so their seven children spoke both Jewish/German and Entiat. –– Charles Trimble, Oglala Lakota By Jerry Klinger Attending a Shiva House a few weeks back, a […]

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

AJC helps rebuild arson- damaged mosque

NEW YORK – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented a donation on Friday to help rebuild the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Florida, severely damaged in an arson attack in September. “An attack on any house of worship is an affront to all Americans, regardless of their religious affiliation,” said Robert Silverman, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations.

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Jewish History, USA

Details emerge on upcoming San Diego Jewry exhibition

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some details are beginning to emerge about the major exhibition planned by the San Diego History Center about the Jews of San Diego. Bill Lawrence, executive director of the center that previously was known as the San Diego Historical Society, said the exhibit will run between nine months

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

At first German- speaking Jews fared better

I Only Wanted to Live; the Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust by Arie Tamir;  published by Arie Tamir, 2015; translated from the Hebrew by Batya Jerenberg By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some kind of morbid fascination, possibly even masochism, seems to impel me to download and read yet another Holocaust memoir,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Amazonian Jews thrive in the depths of the rainforest

Unreachable by road, the city of Iquitos must be accessed by air or boat — yet the tiny Jewish community still imports clergy and exports a love of Israel By Rich Tenorio After their ancestors journeyed across an ocean from the edge of the Sahara to the center of the Amazon, their current numbers have

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

Chief Rabbinate and Vatican: reverse UNESCO decision

The annual meeting between the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Vatican ended Wednesday. This year’s meeting was focused on efforts to achieve peace in light of the rising amount of violence committed in the name of religion. The statement of the ‘Joint Commission of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s Delegation for Relations with the

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East

German court upholds “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” conviction

Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) – A German federal court upheld on Monday the conviction of a 95-year-old man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people, clearing the way for the trials of other elderly people who served at Nazi death camps. Oskar Groening had appealed his four-year

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International, Jewish History

Bnei Menashe teens visit Auschwitz

OSWIECIM, Poland (Press Release)– For the first time, five members of the northeastern Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community, which claims descent from one of Israel’s lost tribes, visited Auschwitz last week as part of a trip for 12th-graders aimed at educating them about the horrors of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. “I feel more connected

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Ice skater performance in Holocaust garb sparks social media outrage

Tel Aviv (dpa) – A video showing Russian ice skaters performing in concentration camp prisoner outfits was slammed as “grotesque” and “offensive” on various social media platforms on Sunday. Tatyana Navka, who’s married to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, performed the piece based on the Italian movie Life is Beautiful on Saturday night on the

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International, Jewish History

Handwritten Anne Frank Poem Auctioned for $148,000

A poem handwritten by one of the Holocaust’s most famous victims, diarist Anne Frank, sold for 140,000 euros (roughly $148,000) on Wednesday at a Dutch auction house. The sum, which doesn’t include the auctioneer’s commission, greatly exceeded the expected sale price of 30,000 to 50,000 euros. Thijs Blankevoort, director of the Bubb Kuyper auction house

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

‘Hugs and Knishes’ premieres on KPBS Dec. 4

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Hugs and Knishes: A Celebration of Our Jewish Foods and Traditions explores the rich history of Jewish food and its cultural impact on the community. The film visits a variety of Jewish homes, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, for anecdotes of Jewish life that represent a diverse cultural experience and demonstrate the

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Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast