An ancient Spanish town which changed its name from an anti-Semitic name to a pro-Jewish one has come under attack from extremist groups who have daubed signposts and buildings with offensive symbols and messages protesting the switch, The Associated Press reported on Thursday. In late 2015, the ancient Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudios, which translates […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Born after World War II, Mark James knew that he had a dead older brother for whom he was named, but he said he never asked his parents about him because he didn’t want to cause them emotional distress. The older brother’s first name was Marek, and
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CountyDr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is not the kind people want to read. Yet, it’s one they should. Titled, “Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule,” it is filled from cover to cover with horrifying accounts of countless Jewish and non-Jewish women being raped and brutalized, experimented upon, forced into prostitution or compelled
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International, Jewish HistoryLies against Israel and the Jewish people are running rampant, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday night, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. “Nazi German rule was eliminated 71 years ago, but anti-Semitism and lies did not die with Hitler in that Berlin bunker,” Netanyahu began. “Millions of people
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Jewish History, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. President Barack Obama issued this statement for Yom HaShoah 2016: Today, on Yom HaShoah, we solemnly remember the six million Jews and the millions of others murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. On this day, we honor the memory of the millions of individuals – the mothers and
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Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There hasn’t been Jewish unity since our ancestors began writing some 3,000 years ago. We can guess that Jewish literacy has something to do with Jewish creativity, individual capacity to express oneself freely, tolerance or enthusiasm for dispute, as well as economic success. Roots of self doubt and being disputatious
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the following statement on the occasion of Yom HaShoah: Teresa and I join all Americans in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, we pause to reflect on the irredeemable loss of six million Jews and countless Poles, Roma, LGBT people, Jehovah’s
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International, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — General Aviv Kochavi, currently in charge of the Northern Command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), came to see my wife Fredzia the other day. He was one of some two dozen members of the General Staff, led by the Chief of Staff, who visited Beit Mozes, the old
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastNEW YORK (AJC)– In observance of Yom HaShoah, which begins Wednesday evening, May 4, the American Jewish Committee issued the following statement: WE REMEMBER In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 69 years
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International, Jewish History, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, San Diego Jewish Academy students will be spending Thursday, May 5th remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationFormer Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron spoke with former President Shimon Peres about Holocaust Remembrance Day on Channel 2’s Reshet. During their talk, Peres said that it is necessary to visit the extermination camps in Europe in order to digest the enormity of the crimes. “I was there, I saw the tallits, the shoes and
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Jewish History, Middle East
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor Masori LA JOLLA, California – The Six Million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with five million other people deemed undesirable by the Nazis, are so hard to conceptualize. Artists and teachers have struggled to represent the Six Million in concrete terms; for example, Six Million tiny squares;
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriBy Joe Spier CALGRARY, Alberta, Canada–Look to the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Superman, the most famous comic book, radio, television and movie superhero. He is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He is also
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Jewish History
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –After World War II came to an end in 1945, the mass killing and sheer devastation wrought by the Nazis off the battlefield began to emerge in shocking detail. Some 11 million civilians—both Jews and non-Jews, including about 1.5 million children—were killed during the Holocaust. When the Allies convened the
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