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Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

March 24, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)-It’s one of the most notorious cold cases of World War II — 900,000 Jews transported by the Nazis to a camp in eastern Poland, never to be seen again. Rare documents and eyewitnesses claimed Treblinka was a death camp even more ruthlessly efficient than Auschwitz-Birkenau, but evidence was thin, because […]

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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visits Anne Frank house

March 23, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC praised Japanese Prime Minister Abe for visiting the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on Sunday, March 23. “Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the place where Anne Frank and her family hid, where she wrote her diary, until their capture by the Nazis is a strong demonstration of remembrance and solidarity with

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International, Jewish History

Khameini: Not clear if Holocaust really happened

March 21, 2014

By World Jewish Congress Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday voice doubts about the scale of the Holocaust, questioning the West’s “red lines” on freedom of expression. In a speech in the city of Mashhad Ali Khamenei said that In Europe, “no one dares to speak of the Holocaust, the crux of which

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Jewish History, Middle East

Spain trying to ‘reverse 500 years of injustice’

March 19, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The government of Spain “wants to right an historical wrong” against the Jewish people, declared Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, Spain’s Minister of Justice, at an AJC luncheon on Wednesday, March 19. The government initiative would offer Spanish citizenship to Jews who can trace their ancestry to the time of the forced expulsion of Jews

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International, Jewish History

Utilizing employee’s letters, AJC publishes ‘Exit Berlin’

March 17, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC announces the publication of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany. Authored by Charlotte Bonelli, director of AJC Archives, and published by Yale University Press, Exit Berlin offers unique insights into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the perspective of one young German Jewish woman.

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Jewish History

Opposites: Samuel Rosenman and Queen Esther

March 16, 2014

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The Mishnah teaches that, “Anyone reading the Megillah backwards (or out of sequence) has not fulfilled his obligation” (BT. Megillah 17a).[1] Hassidic Scholars noted that one should never think that the miracles and the story of Purim are a relic of the ancient past. Rather its message continues

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Purim and the Nazi Julius Streicher

March 14, 2014

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –During the Holocaust years, Purim celebrations were forbidden to the Jews. Christians and Jews could not even own the book of Esther. Such decrees did not stop the Nazis from poking fun at the Jews on this Jewish holiday. With diabolical glee, the Nazis frequently orchestrated special

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Memoir of a survivor of the Terezin ghetto

March 11, 2014

A LOOK BACK OVER MY SHOULDER (Second Edition March 2014) Editor’s Note: In 1936 Garry Fabian’s family fled Germany to Czechoslovakia, hoping to escape Nazi persecution, but in vain. By 1942 Garry, aged eight, was interned in Theresienstadt. He was to spend till May 1945 in that ‘model’ concentration camp and was one of

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International, Jewish History

What is the name ‘Purim’ all about?

March 8, 2014

By Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org The names of religious holidays are usually fairly straightforward, pointing us to the central symbol or theme of the festival. Pesach refers to the ancient lamb offering, the korban pesach; Shavuot, meaning “weeks,” points to the careful counting of seven weeks that precede it; Sukkot are the booths that Jews inhabit

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Jewish History

Denmark’s once-proud history recalled

March 7, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –What’s significant about October, 1943? During that month the Danes carried out an unprecedented rescue of Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Werner Bachmann recently told a rapt audience at a recent Forgotten People Fund luncheon in Netanya, “I was meant to be one of those murdered by

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International, Jewish History, Steve Kramer

Kamin’s book on King, Levison and Kennedys debuts

March 4, 2014

EAST LANSING, Michigan (Press Release)–Rabbi Ben Kamin’s new book Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers will be available from Michigan State University Press this April and is available for sale through its website www.msupress.msu.edu and at fine bookstores. The product of long-concealed FBI surveillance documents, Dangerous Friendship chronicles a

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Jewish History, USA

Funds donated to conserve 5 Jewish sites

February 27, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Thursday, Feb. 27, the receipt of an award of $220,000 from the David Berg Foundation of New York for five projects at Jewish heritage sites in Europe and Africa: the Schola Canton in Venice, Italy; the Great Synagogue of Iasi, Romania; Split Synagogue in Croatia;

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International, Jewish History

John Henry Weidner posthumous ADL awardee

February 10, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)–John Henry Weidner, a Dutch hero who helped save more than 1,000 individuals, including approximately 800 Jews, from the Holocaust, has been posthumously honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with the ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award. Established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, the

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Jewish History

Quarterly tells of pioneer Jews of Victoria, B.C.

February 7, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I remember reporting in a Jewish travelogue in 1991 about Victoria, British Columbia, that Selim Franklin was elected in 1860 to the second Legislative Assembly on Vancouver Island, and that in 1866 his brother, Lumley Franklin, was elected as Victoria’s second mayor, the first Jew to hold the

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe visits Anne Frank house

Khameini: Not clear if Holocaust really happened

Spain trying to ‘reverse 500 years of injustice’

Utilizing employee’s letters, AJC publishes ‘Exit Berlin’

Opposites: Samuel Rosenman and Queen Esther

Purim and the Nazi Julius Streicher

Memoir of a survivor of the Terezin ghetto

What is the name ‘Purim’ all about?

Denmark’s once-proud history recalled

Kamin’s book on King, Levison and Kennedys debuts

Funds donated to conserve 5 Jewish sites

John Henry Weidner posthumous ADL awardee

Quarterly tells of pioneer Jews of Victoria, B.C.

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