When I first invited Rav Binyomin Kamenetzky to speak about his participation in the 1943 march by rabbis in Washington, I assumed he had spoken about that episode on many previous occasions. I was …
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By Rafael Madoff, Special to The Jewish Star
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5/3/17
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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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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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President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.
Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of …
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By JTA
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4/23/17
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President Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responses —and sometimes non-responses — to mass …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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4/20/17
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We interrupt this Passover to bring you two news bulletins:
Bashar Assad is worse than Hitler.
The Soup Nazi was almost a real Nazi.
Let’s start with the second revelation, since Sean …
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Analysis by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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4/20/17
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From Anne Frank’s diary to Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” books about the Holocaust remain some of the most powerful and well-known pieces of literature published in the past century. …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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4/20/17
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George Carlin was wrong, there aren’t seven words you can’t say on television — there should be nine. The last two words should be “Hitler” and “Nazi.” …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/20/17
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Seventy-two years ago to the date that Marion Blumenthal’s family — her father, Walter; her mother, Ruth; and Marion and her brother, Albert — were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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4/20/17
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