How do people behave when they visit a concentration camp or a Holocaust memorial?
Do they act as if there are in place of reverence or mourning? Or do they behave as crowds do at any tourist …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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3/15/17
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HANC High School’s Beit Midrash classes were privileged to hear the testimony of Dr. Moshe Avital, a Holocaust survivor and well-known author. Avital brought to light …
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2/24/17
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Last week, I found myself taking 45 middle schoolers on a four-hour bus ride to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. While they were certainly struck as they walked through the …
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By Ilyse Muser Shainbrown, Kveller via JTA
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2/15/17
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There is a story told by Rav Ephraim Oshry, one of the last rabbis of the Kovno Ghetto, in his monumental work of Holocaust responsum, Mima’amakim.
When the Nazis arrived in the small …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/15/17
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Filmmaker Kahane Cooperman hasn’t written an Oscars acceptance speech yet, but she likely will before the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 28. …
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By Curt Schleier, JTA
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2/8/17
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Midwinter break gives both students and teachers the chance to travel to all sorts of exotic places. This year, Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen …
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2/8/17
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When Jews joined the protests around the country this weekend against President Trump’s executive order on immigration, they were largely doing so on behalf of Muslim refugees and migrants who …
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By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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2/1/17
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Regular readers know that I am a HUGE supporter of President Trump. However, when he’s wrong, good reporting requires the president and his administration get a swift kick in the assets. The …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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2/1/17
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“Five million non-Jews died in the Holocaust.”
It’s a statement that shows up regularly in declarations about the Nazi era. And it was asserted in an article …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/1/17
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About a month ago, I wrote in this column about a group of British animal rights activists who employed Nazi imagery in a vicious campaign against a kosher abattoir (slaughterhouse) in London. This, …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/25/17
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