NEW YORK (AJC)– In observance of Yom HaShoah, which begins Wednesday evening, May 4, the American Jewish Committee issued the following statement: WE REMEMBER In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 69 years
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International, Jewish History, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, San Diego Jewish Academy students will be spending Thursday, May 5th remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationFormer Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron spoke with former President Shimon Peres about Holocaust Remembrance Day on Channel 2’s Reshet. During their talk, Peres said that it is necessary to visit the extermination camps in Europe in order to digest the enormity of the crimes. “I was there, I saw the tallits, the shoes and
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Jewish History, Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Fifty Holocaust survivors who never got to celebrate their Jewish coming-of-age ritual because of the horrors of World War II got a chance to do so Monday in Jerusalem. The bat mitzvah and bar mitzvah – the first for girls, the second for boys – is typically performed when the child
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The Triguboff Institute, established by an Australian philanthropist, specializes in the needs of Jews from the former Soviet Union, notably Russia and Ukraine. The fact that perhaps as many as 400 000 Israeli citizens of Russian and Ukrainian background aren’t regarded as Jews by the state’s rabbinic establishment has prompted
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor Masori LA JOLLA, California – The Six Million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with five million other people deemed undesirable by the Nazis, are so hard to conceptualize. Artists and teachers have struggled to represent the Six Million in concrete terms; for example, Six Million tiny squares;
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriBy Joe Spier CALGRARY, Alberta, Canada–Look to the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Superman, the most famous comic book, radio, television and movie superhero. He is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He is also
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Jewish HistoryAs Passover and Shabbat end tonight, people across Israel are celebrating Mimouna. Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) is taking part in the festival at the Dahan home in Yavne, along with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Gamliel spoke to fellow attendees, saying that “the festival of Mimouna, in which the doors
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –After World War II came to an end in 1945, the mass killing and sheer devastation wrought by the Nazis off the battlefield began to emerge in shocking detail. Some 11 million civilians—both Jews and non-Jews, including about 1.5 million children—were killed during the Holocaust. When the Allies convened the
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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & EducationReinhold Hanning, 94, told a courtroom in western Germany that he had never spoken about his time as a SS guard in Auschwitz, even with his family members, but wanted to apologize Friday for his involvement in the Nazi Holocaust. He said he was aware of what was happening at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where
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International, Jewish HistorySenior UK Labour Party lawmakers called on party leader Jeremy Corbyn to take greater action against anti-Semitism among its members, after two senior politicians were dismissed for anti-Semitic remarks. The Labour Party’s shadow home secretary Andy Burnham told Sky News on Friday that opposition party members “have made anti-Semitic comments” and that “these allegations, when
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In what has become a yearly tradition at the holy site, hundreds of Jewish worshipers packed the Cave of the Patriarchs (also known as the Cave of Machpela) in Hevron for a mass prayer led by two leading rabbis from Tzfat (Safed), the heart of Jewish mysticism in Israel: Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and
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Berlin (dpa) – The Bavarian parliament was debating Thursday whether an annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s opus Mein Kampf should be authorized for educational use in schools and other establishments. The 2,000-page version of the text, which climbed to the top spot on Der Spiegel’s nonfiction bestseller list this month, includes 3,700 annotations that attempt
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Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork said her aunt and uncle, both survivors, “taught me about their experiences in a very gentle way while I was growing up.” One of the letters written by children to their parents during their years of wartime separation. From the time she was a child growing up in Princeton in the
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