Judaism

Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

  NEW YORK (Press Release)-It’s one of the most notorious cold cases of World War II — 900,000 Jews transported by the Nazis to a camp in eastern Poland, never to be seen again. Rare documents and eyewitnesses claimed Treblinka was a death camp even more ruthlessly efficient than Auschwitz-Birkenau, but evidence was thin, because […]

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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Employees surfing unrelated Internet sites are stealing

 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This question is based on a question posed to the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. My colleague at work spends most of his time posting to the website, Reddit. He could be posting information about his boss or work environment that could

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Spain trying to ‘reverse 500 years of injustice’

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The government of Spain “wants to right an historical wrong” against the Jewish people, declared Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, Spain’s Minister of Justice, at an AJC luncheon on Wednesday, March 19. The government initiative would offer Spanish citizenship to Jews who can trace their ancestry to the time of the forced expulsion of Jews

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International, Jewish History

CCAR to honor HUC-JIR’s Rabbi David Ellenson

CHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release) — The Central Conference of American Rabbis will honor Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., at the Crown Family Symposium on Rabbinic Leadership on Monday, March 31, 2014, as part of the 125th annual CCAR Convention, in Chicago. The CCAR is the representative organization of nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis, the world’s largest group

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Jewish Religion, USA

Utilizing employee’s letters, AJC publishes ‘Exit Berlin’

NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC announces the publication of Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany.  Authored by Charlotte Bonelli, director of AJC Archives, and published by Yale University Press, Exit Berlin offers unique insights into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the perspective of one young German Jewish woman.

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Jewish History

Professors to survey Jewish college students

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Press Release)– Trinity College professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar are embarking on an online national survey of Jewish university and college students. This large-scale study is a follow-up to their  2013 online national survey of the worldviews and opinions of all American college students. The focus on college students differentiates the Trinity

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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education