Jewish History

Israel’s enemies deny, lie about, or exploit the Shoah

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. -For Palestinians, suffering — and sympathy for suffering — is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the territories. Even among Palestinian groups, while thousands suffer and die in Syria — most heinously starved in the Yarmouk refugee camp — Israelis joined relief […]

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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Levin cuts ribbon for Anne Frank exhibit at Capitol

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, on Wednesday, April 30,  participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a traveling exhibition of the Anne Frank Center, which will be on display at the Russell Senate Office Building through May 9. Following are Levin’s remarks: “Today we celebrate the memory of Anne Frank, who at

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Jewish History

2-volume work documents Nazi- destroyed shuls

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — On Tuesday, April 29, in the Rayburn House Office Building (Room 2172), Members of Congress, German officials, Jewish leaders, and diplomats will gather to mark the publication of an unprecedented, historic two volume work documenting, for the first time in English, the synagogues and prayer houses destroyed on Pogromnacht, November

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Jewish History, USA

Peres tells of his grandfather being burned alive by Nazis

(Editor’s Note: Following is the text of a speech delivered Sunday, April 27,  by Israel’s President Shimon Peres at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem) By Shimon Peres JERUSALEM — My brothers and sisters, at this very moment I see before my eyes a heartbreaking image. Tens of thousands of people; young and old, male

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Foundation aids World War II rescuers in financial need

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — Thousands of non-Jews from across Europe and Eastern Europe saved Jewish lives from the horrors of the Holocaust, placing their lives and the lives of their families at risk. Over 25,000 known non-Jews have been recognized by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” including Christians and Muslims. Today many

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International, Jewish History

Arab professor visits Auschwitz with his students

By Rabbi  Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The language of empathy is hardwired into the consciousness of many higher mammals.  Human beings share the capacity to experience empathy for others. Of course, human beings are different in one basic respect from the animal kingdom. Whereas empathy is something that is instinctual in the

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

The Wandering Review: ‘Walking with the Enemy’

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Walking with the Enemy belongs to a cycle of recent movies like Black Book, Army of Crime, Defiance, Inglourious Basterds, and Süskind which portray Jews actively resisting the Holocaust.  With the exception of Tarantino’s counterfactual picture, these films are docudramas inspired by real events.  Walking with the Enemy chronicles the German

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron

Dutch plan monument to Holocaust victims

By Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — Dutch Jews suffered immensely and disproportionately so under the Nazis in World War II. Out of 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands at the outbreak of the war, some 107,000 Jews were deported to death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. At the

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History