By Rhonda Spivak SALZBURG, Austria — I had travelled to the enchanting and beautiful city of Salzburg Austria, a two hour train ride from Munich, and was just about to leave its old town when I went into a store to buy a postcard. On my way out I noticed that the street the store
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International, Jewish History
By Alex Traiman/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent controversial remark that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” in the absence of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shined a spotlight on the perceived demographic threat to Israel—a threat that some experts say is not based on current reality. The
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Jewish History, Middle East
BUDAPEST (WJC) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told Jewish community leaders that he would build a controversial Nazi occupation monument despite their opposition. Orbán presented his firm position on Wednesday, April 30, during a meeting with leaders of Mazsihisz, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary, according to media reports. Mazsihisz believes
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International, Jewish History
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Amidst the towering, aromatic pines of the San Bernardino National Forest is Camp Mountain Chai. Like most summer camps, it offers typical activities such as swimming, crafts and sing-alongs. It’s an experience that each summer draws hundreds of San Diego children, and in the process, they’re getting something else: a
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Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy 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 BryenWASHINGTON, 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
NEW YORK (WJC)–An Auschwitz survivor’s quest to find his twin brother he last saw in 1945 through Facebook has received an unexpected boost more than a year after it was launched. In recent days, coinciding with Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day, over 330,000 users shared a post from the World Jewish Congress Facebook page
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Jewish History-First in a series- By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Jesus once said: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (SDJW) — The boyhood home of Justice Louis D. Brandeis has been sold at auction for $880,000, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. The building with a limestone front at 310 E. Broadway has been expanded considerably from the home built in 1864 by Adolphus and Frederika Brandeis, when their son Louis was eight years
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Jewish History, USA
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
(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 EastBy Barbara Boxer WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1980, Congress established Holocaust Remembrance Day to educate Americans about the history of the Holocaust and commemorate its victims. On this day, we honor the memories of the 6 million Jews and millions of other innocents murdered by the Nazis before and during World War II. We also
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Jewish History(Editor’s Note: Following is a transcript of a speech given Sunday, April 27, by Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in commemoration of Yom HaShoah) By Binyamin Netanyahu JERUSALEM — The last time I visited Yad Vashem was with the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, a great friend of Israel
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Jewish History, Middle East
By Aryeh Savir MIGDAL HA’EMEK, Israel (TNA)– Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, Dean of the Migdal Ohr Institutions, sat in his home in Migdal Ha’emek, emotionally re-examining the piece of Torah parchment he was given. Cut by a Nazi almost 70 years ago from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, the sacred parchment
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Jewish History, Middle East