By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. Susan Abeles’ saga began in 2013 when she took time off to observe the last two days of Passover, just as she had done annually for the past 26 years. During those years, Abeles, an Orthodox Jew, worked for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), mainly as a data specialist.
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Edwin Black, Jewish Religion, USAFive weeks before Trump assumes power, president tells American Jews: ‘We look forward to working with you on the other side’ By Eric Cortellessa Mika Almog, granddaughter of the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres, lights a menorah candle as Rabbi Rachel Isaacs says a blessing during a Hanukkah reception in The East Room at
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By Alanna Sobel (c) National Park Foundation Near Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island, you can walk in the footsteps of the 26th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt’s “Summer White House,” as it was affectionately known, is called Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in the park world. Heirlooms, hunting trophies,
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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USAAuthor Elizabeth Bettina wrote her book, I t Happened in Italy, to highlight “the goodness” of the Italian people in protecting Jews during the Holocaust. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Bettina Hadassah members serving on the program committee included, from left, Judy Tabak, Judi Harrison, Aimee Braverman, Judy Slutzky, and Rena Kallman. Photo by Debra Rubin On
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International, Jewish HistoryRome (dpa) – Giulia Spizzichino, one of Rome’s last Holocaust survivors and the woman who helped bring Nazi criminal Erich Priebke to justice, died overnight aged 90, the Jewish Community of Rome said Tuesday. Spizzichino is credited for convincing the Argentine government to allow the extradition of Priebke to Italy, where he was tried and
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International, Jewish History‘Not one’ expert she interviewed knew of Caribbean Jewish victims, says Jamaican author, but that didn’t stop community from raising international funds for monument By Julie Masis More than 70 years after the end of World War II, a small South American country erected its first Holocaust memorial. Over 100 Jewish names were engraved on
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International, Jewish HistoryEsma Redžepova, the prominent and versatile Roma singer dubbed the “Romany music queen,” has died at the age of 73, hospital sources and her family said Sunday. The singer from Macedonia was one of the first vocalists in the Balkans to sing in the Romany language. She performed in some of the world’s greatest music
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — This past weekend I saw two intense biographical documentaries dealing with completely opposing viewpoints on the Holocaust. The first, Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe, told of the melancholy meanderings of the Austrian writer/playwright/philosopher who, at the height of his career in the 1920s and ‘30s was one of the
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Lucy Friedlander Covington was extraordinary. Her grandfather Herman Friedlander was Jewish and her grandmother an Entiat tribal woman. According to Lucy, neither of the couple learned the other’s language, so their seven children spoke both Jewish/German and Entiat. –– Charles Trimble, Oglala Lakota By Jerry Klinger Attending a Shiva House a few weeks back, a
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USANEW YORK – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented a donation on Friday to help rebuild the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Florida, severely damaged in an arson attack in September. “An attack on any house of worship is an affront to all Americans, regardless of their religious affiliation,” said Robert Silverman, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations.
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Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some details are beginning to emerge about the major exhibition planned by the San Diego History Center about the Jews of San Diego. Bill Lawrence, executive director of the center that previously was known as the San Diego Historical Society, said the exhibit will run between nine months
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAI Only Wanted to Live; the Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust by Arie Tamir; published by Arie Tamir, 2015; translated from the Hebrew by Batya Jerenberg By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some kind of morbid fascination, possibly even masochism, seems to impel me to download and read yet another Holocaust memoir,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryMore than Enough is Nothing! By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — Yaakov had just left his parent’s home and his birthplace to journey to a foreign land in search of a wife. An encounter with Eliphaz, the first-born son of Esau, had left him penniless. Early darkness forced him to camp in an unfamiliar
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Jewish ReligionBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Early one December at my cousin’s retirement party, we were introduced to his replacement as engineering company head and the man’s wife, both not Jewish. The young woman was very outgoing and, though we were meeting for the first, she was as friendly as if we had been
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