NEW YORK (Press Release) In advance of the opening of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night, Oct. 19, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement by Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, which will be featured in the playbill. Following is the full text of the statement: Twenty nine years […]
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
BRUSSELS (WJC) — Belgium’s new Interior Minister Jan Jambon of the separatist New Flemish Alliance (NVA) has spoken out in defense of people who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. The politician, who was sworn in as new federal deputy prime minister and interior minister last week, told newspapers that war-time collaboration with
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International, Jewish History
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –I have just finished reading In This Hospitable Land by Lynmar Brock Jr. which is based on the childhood experiences of the author’s wife and her family during WWII. It describes in great detail the trials and tribulations of the two Sauverin brothers, Alex and André, their parents, wives and children
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryBERLIN (WJC) — The German government has taken steps to intensify provenance research in order to clarify whether or not works of art were looted by the Nazis from their rightful Jewish owners. Germany came under fire last year after it came to light that Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a prominent Nazi-era art dealer,
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Jewish History, Middle East
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship unit of the Institute housed on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Editor’s Note: Rabbi Dow Marmur, our correspondent who divides his time between Toronto and Jerusalem, shared with San Diego Jewish World this alternative analysis about the trends of Israeli society. It is a long piece, which readers may wish to print out and read in their easy chairs. By Jim Lederman Dear Dow, I am writing
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — It was many years ago when I first heard about a Nazi death camp named Sobibór, nestled deep in the forests of the Lublin district of southeastern Poland. Sobibór was one of three Nazi extermination camps — the other two were Belzek and Treblinka — that had received
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Dorian de Wind, Jewish History
LOS ANGELES (WJC) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center has said it had identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive. The Los Angeles-based organization gave the German government a list of 80 names for investigation. The Wiesenthal Center’s top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told the ‘Associated Press’ on
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International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel of San Diego Men’s Club will welcome Lou Israel Dunst, Holocaust survivor, as its guest speaker at the October 22nd Dinner Forum. Dunst will share his experience and tales of survival living through five concentration and labor camps and how he eluded certain death in two different Gas Chambers in Auschwitz
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Jewish History, San Diego CalendarBy Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — I had last visited the Temple Mount in 1982, on a synagogue-sponsored trip from New Jersey. My memories of that visit are hazy, but Michal and I got another chance just before Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. We joined a Tel Aviv University-sponsored trip, guided by archeologist/historian Dr. Stephen Rosenberg, whose
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerHere is an article by San Diego Jewish World’s regular reviewer Eric George Tauber. Another of our writers, Rabbi Ben Kamin, who made a presentation prior to one of the performances also was moved to write a review, which is linked here. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–If you love to take in a rich
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Eric George Tauber, Jewish HistoryThis is a bonus review of ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane by Rabbi Ben Kamin, who made a presentation before one of the performances. An article by our regular reviewer, Eric George Tauber, is linked here. By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — There are but three “characters” on the stage of the deeply-realized, lyrically expressed,
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Jewish History
Editor’s Note: Following is the text of an address delivered in August on the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto by Prof. Goldie Morgentaler, Ph.D., who teaches English and Yiddish literature at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Dr. Morgentaler was the subject of a recent feature story in San Diego
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International, Jewish History
Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child by Margareta Ackerman, Ph.D. Illustrations by Vivien Mildenberger. © 2013, ISBN: 9781492330967, 81 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book retells the stories of author Ackerman’s grandfather Srulik, who against all odds survived the Holocaust as a child after running away in
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History