Jewish History

SDJA dedicates May 5 to Holocaust education

SAN 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, & Education

Butterflies, stones, candles help mourn Shoah victims

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. Masori

UCSD psychiatrist analyzes four Nazis May 12

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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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Labour MPs seek quick action against anti- Semitism

Senior UK Labour Party lawmakers called on party leader Jeremy Corbyn to take greater action against anti-Semitism among its members, after two senior politicians were dismissed for anti-Semitic remarks. The Labour Party’s shadow home secretary Andy Burnham told Sky News on Friday that opposition party members “have made anti-Semitic comments” and that “these allegations, when

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Bavaria considers use of Mein Kampf in schools

Berlin (dpa) – The Bavarian parliament was debating Thursday whether an annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s opus Mein Kampf should be authorized for educational use in schools and other establishments. The 2,000-page version of the text, which climbed to the top spot on Der Spiegel’s nonfiction bestseller list this month, includes 3,700 annotations that attempt

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International, Jewish History

Alumni mark century of Jewish life at Princeton

Correction: In story below, Einstein’s first name in fact was Albert Reunion at Princeton celebrates move from ‘periphery to center’ Armand Derfner, standing, class of ’60, said of his years on campus, “It was a very hard time,” for Jews; with him are his Princeton classmate Joel Davidow and his wife, Gwenn Rosenthal, of Washington,

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Brandeis U celebrates centennial of namesake’s judgeship

BOSTON – On a late spring day nearly 100 years ago, Louis D. Brandeis arrived home from his law office and was greeted by his wife Alice with the words, “Good evening Mr. Justice Brandeis.” The announcement of the confirmation of the first Jewish associate justice to the US Supreme Court came earlier that afternoon,

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA