Judaism

Foundation aids World War II rescuers in financial need

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — Thousands of non-Jews from across Europe and Eastern Europe saved Jewish lives from the horrors of the Holocaust, placing their lives and the lives of their families at risk. Over 25,000 known non-Jews have been recognized by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” including Christians and Muslims. Today many […]

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International, Jewish History

Arab professor visits Auschwitz with his students

By Rabbi  Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The language of empathy is hardwired into the consciousness of many higher mammals.  Human beings share the capacity to experience empathy for others. Of course, human beings are different in one basic respect from the animal kingdom. Whereas empathy is something that is instinctual in the

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

The Wandering Review: ‘Walking with the Enemy’

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Walking with the Enemy belongs to a cycle of recent movies like Black Book, Army of Crime, Defiance, Inglourious Basterds, and Süskind which portray Jews actively resisting the Holocaust.  With the exception of Tarantino’s counterfactual picture, these films are docudramas inspired by real events.  Walking with the Enemy chronicles the German

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron

Dutch plan monument to Holocaust victims

By Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — Dutch Jews suffered immensely and disproportionately so under the Nazis in World War II. Out of 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands at the outbreak of the war, some 107,000 Jews were deported to death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. At the

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History

Holocaust Museum exhibit examines Nazi lies

By Robert Gluck/JNS.org An ongoing traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum challenges visitors to think about their responsibilities as consumers of information and how they can confront harmful messaging today. “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” is on display at Phoenix’s Burton Barr Central Library through June 1, before it moves on

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International, Jewish History

Narratives recapture the chaos, pride of Six Day War

  The Lion’s Gate; On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield; Sentinel/ Penguin, (c) 2014. ISBN 978-1-59523-091-1, 430 pages including index and bibliography, $29.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘The Lion’s Gate’ is a fascinating attempt to present the events before and during the Six Day War of June 1967,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East

2 Popes who built trust with Jews to be named saints

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC congratulates the Catholic Church on the canonizations of Pope John XXIII and John Paul II. “We rejoice with our Catholic friends at this unique recognition being given to the two Popes who were also the ones most responsible for the dramatic revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations in our times,” said

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International, Jewish History

Author urges families, friends to record Survivors

By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org As the generation of Holocaust survivors passes, writers and researchers acknowledge the urgent need to ask probing questions and preserve fading memories. Moving forward, in the absence of firsthand accounts, survivors’ descendants will need to assume responsibility for educating future generations about the genocide. In the modern era of self-publishing, the

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Jewish History