By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Among the subscribers to San Diego Jewish World are a few readers in the Slovak Republic. I would like to address this article to them, as well as to anyone else who might be able to throw light upon the subject of Judge Jacob Weinberger’s early life. Weinberger’s name […]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAHolocaust Remembrance must also look to the present and the future By Menachem Rosensaft WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)– Following are remarks delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Inaugural Second Generation Leadership Mission, Washington, DC, November 15, 2015. Text provided by the World Jewish Congress. I am honored to be with you this evening, honored
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Jewish HistoryA Curious Coincidence and a Visit to Yad Vashem By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The anniversary of the Pogrom of 9th November 1938, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, is marked every year by Jews all over the world. It is not a religious occasion, but does nevertheless serve to unite Jewish
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By Dov Smith JERUSALEM — What do bagels and falafel have in common? According to a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher, comparing the histories of these two foods shows us that bagels and falafel have much more in common than meets the eye. On a simple level, says Prof. Shaul Stampfer, both foods are based
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Laura Ben-David addresses a gathering at SCY High on Tuesday, Nov. 17, about the work of Shavei Israel in reconnecting “lost” communities to their Jewish roots, she could spin the globe and put her finger on almost any populated continent and have a story there to tell. In a
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ronald Lauder NEW YORK (WJC) Seventy-seven years ago tonight, the entire world faced one of history’s great moral tests. It failed miserably. On 9 November 1938, Adolf Hitler set loose the darkest impulses of mankind in a brutal attack that raged across Germany and Austria. It was called Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass,
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO – It was the kind of memorial service that the late Sheriff Bill Kolender would have enjoyed. There was lots of humor and plenty of the camaraderie that he was credited with fostering among law enforcement agencies. Civilians and uniformed officers from both
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Michael Mantell, San Diego CountyAfter the Survivors perish, who will tell their stories? By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan–Some time in the near future, the last known Holocaust survivor will pass away, and there will be no more people to tell the first-hand story of what happened in those dark days in Europe. When I asked two people recently
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, USADemjanjuk Holocaust trial witness dies SANTA BARBARA, California (JNS.org)– A Holocaust survivor of the Sobibor Nazi death camp who testified at the trial of alleged camp guard John Demjanjuk has died at the age of 88. Polish-born Thomas (Toivi) Blatt was one of a few Jews who managed to escape the Sobibor camp in
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel of San Diego will host Mark and Frank Powell as featured speakers at its December 16 Dinner Forum. Their presentation will focus on a project they are spearheading regarding a World War II Holocaust Memorial to honor the Liberation of Holocaust Survivors. The brothers established the
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CalendarHouse resolution urging protection of Jewish communities lauded NEW YORK (Press Release)–“The Conference of Presidents applauds the House of Representatives for unanimously passing a bipartisan resolution which urges the United States and European governments to take steps to keep Jewish communities around the world safe.” So said Stephen Greenberg, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive
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International, Jewish HistorySen. Schumer: U.S. to help compensate French rail’s Holocaust deportees WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org)– The U.S. State Department will accept applications for restitution from Holocaust victims (and their family members) who were transported to concentration camps by the French rail company Societé Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF), according to an announcement made last week
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International, Jewish HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Nov. 1, condemned remarks by an Austrian parliamentarian in which she heartily agreed with a comment posted on Facebook that “Zionists money Jews are the global problem.” Susanne Winter, a parliamentarian and member of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), wrote in response to an
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Jewish HistoryBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Naomi Segal Bronstein died on December 23, 2010 at the age of 65 in her sleep at the orphanage she founded in Guatemala, a country of poverty and calamity. Her heart had given out. At the end, plagued by ill health, her body and mind weary, almost broke, only
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