As I sit down to write this week’s column, I’m thinking about what I will eat before and after the fast (I’d rather not think about the …
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By Judy Joszef
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7/16/21
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Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” recalled her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s courage in defying the Nazis at the Emmy Awards.
Borstein, who won …
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By JTA
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10/3/19
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Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isn’t teaching history. …
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By Henry Abramson
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7/16/21
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The latest cinematic release by the Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky is so extreme that he is currently under a police investigation for alleged torture …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/6/20
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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.
That’s the moral of the story of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to resolve a quarrel with …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/11/18
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One of the reasons Beckah Restivo is glad she attended George Washington University is the school’s proximity to the U.S. Holocaust …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org
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4/26/17
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On Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the talmidim of Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence demonstrated that they remember — and they did so in an way meant to make it harder for …
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By Ed Weintrob
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4/26/17
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Nearly 80 years after the last train sent Jews to almost certain death from the main railway station in Wurzburg, a memorial to those who perished was dedicated in the German …
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By Toby Axelrod, JTA
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7/3/20
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
Last month, the Long Island Herald published a column, by Hofstra University Professor Alan Singer, that maligned Judaism and the Jewish state of Israel; Singer bizarrely …
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By Daniel Offner, LI Herald
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1/25/23
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The keynote speaker at Sunday night’s Five Towns Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration said that tolerance, obviously missing from Europe in the years surrounding World War II, is the …
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By Ed Weintrob
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4/26/17
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