JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Press Release) — On weekends as a child, Dana Rogozinski sat with her grandmother, Ella, at the kitchen table playing with beads and baubles. Ella, a Holocaust survivor, was self-taught in the art of stringing pearls and worked as a jeweler for a high-end jewelry store in Jacksonville, Florida. Her grandmother’s Auschwitz forearm
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Come April 27, Disobedience will open in movie theaters across the country. I think a better title might be Restraint. It is the story of Ronit, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, banished from her British community because she was discovered having a lesbian affair with a neighbor
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 By Donald H. Harrison
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — In recognition of Yom Hashoah, members of Bat Harim Hadassah, and community leaders, in San Diego, recently gathered for a presentation and post discussion with William Bernstein, Director of Institutional Advancement for the Western Region, American Society for Yad Vashem. Bernstein introduced the mission of Yad Vashem by quoting Avner Shalev,
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Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Although I needed to park far up the street because the Tifereth Israel parking lot was full, I was happy to see an overflowing house attending the second of two concerts by TICO (Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra) in conjunction with the East County Mormon Chorale. The program, which opened
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyTheir Promised Land; My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma; Penguin Random House, 2017 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I found this book so fascinating that I read it more or less in one sitting and, having read it on my Kindle, proceeded to order the paperback version from Amazon as I knew I
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Anti-Semitic violence around the world dropped 9% from 2016 to 2017, but a “dramatic increase” of all other forms of anti-Semitic manifestations, including harassment and hate speech, has raised increasingly “grave concerns among Jews regarding their security and the continuation of communal life,” according to an annual report from Tel
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — The California State Assembly honored Holocaust survivors, descendants of survivors, and World War II liberators residing throughout the state during its annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on Monday “As we remember the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, it is alarming to learn that
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Jewish History, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Simon Sebag-Montefiore brings impeccable credentials to the monumental task of writing Jerusalem: The Biography. A history Ph.D. from Cambridge, he has been a banker and a foreign correspondent reporting on, among other events, the fall of the Soviet Union. He is also the great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore, the international
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — In honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, American Associates, an Israeli flag created by Rebecca Affachiner, often called “the Betsy Ross of Israel,” has been donated to the Ben-Gurion Archives at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on the Sede Boqer Campus. Rebecca Affachiner
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Jewish History, Middle EastEditor’s Note This is a transcript of Edwin Black’s April 11, 2018 keynote address in the Michigan Capitol Rotunda for that state’s official Holocaust Commemoration. By Edwin Black LANSING, Michigan — Today, I come not just to mourn nor to scorn but rather to warn our world, that is, the world of today whose memories
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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) on Friday applauded the South Carolina General Assembly for being the first state to pass legislation that will help tackle the rising anti-Semitism plaguing U.S. college campuses. The legislation, which was included as part of a larger state spending package,
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Jewish History, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –In recent years it has become customary in Israel, in addition to the official ceremonies marking Holocaust Day, for small groups of people, whether survivors, descendants of survivors, or simply those who feel a connection to the subject, to gather together in private homes and talk about their own
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East
By Sandee Wilhoit Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation SAN DIEGO — America has always been the land of immigrants and opportunity. This was especially true during the 19th century when Horace Greeley’s philosophy that the road to success was paved with hard work and perseverance was the inspiration for many seeking a better and more prosperous
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Jewish History, San Diego County