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IDF Vet Comes to Baltimore to Talk PTSD
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (618+ words) Eli Wininger comes from a long line of proud Jews. His grandfather survived the Holocaust, and his mother's side of the family escaped religious persecution in Tunisia. Both parts of his family settled safely in Israel, which, he said, "saved…...
This Jewish Artist Fought Nazis With a Paintbrush, When Art Like His Still Mattered
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (594+ words) I didn't know then that this was the work of Arthur Szyk, a Polish-born Jew who was famous for his vivid and grotesque caricatures of Nazi and Japanese leaders and his heroic depictions of American soldiers and the country's founding…...
Opinion: What the US Ambassador to Poland Left Out When He Absolved Poland of Holocaust Complicity
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (261+ words) Lost in the recent kerfuffle over whether the U.S. Coast Guard would no longer consider the swastika as a symbol of hate was a far more troubling development in antisemitism. The new U.S. ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, delivered a speech in…...
Belgian Museum to Keep Art It Says Was Stolen From Jews
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (531+ words) Canaan Lidor | JNS Jewish organizations in Belgium on Monday demanded restitution from a city-run museum in Ghent that has acknowledged that it was in possession of a looted painting, yet declined to offer compensation for it. The call by the…...
Dan Berkovitz, Jewish Vet, Reflects on Life as a Soldier and Commitment to His Culture
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (708+ words) For Dan Berkovitz, it's not easy to talk about his time as a Marine. Like many who have served in combat, the things he saw continue to stick with him decades later, no matter how badly he wants to forget....
Spotted in a Nazi’s Daughter’s Real Estate Ad: A Painting Looted From a Famed Jewish Art Dealer
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (84+ words) Toby Axelrod | JTA An investigation by Dutch journalists has led tantalizingly close to the recovery of a painting looted from a Jewish art dealer 85 years ago. But no sooner was the work by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi glimpsed in…...
My Father May Have Escaped the Holocaust, but It Was Me Who Got Stuck
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (83+ words) Jennifer Krebs I've never been much of a flirt with people, but ideas? I flirt shamelessly. I don't fall head over heels, but I linger. I'll bat my lashes at a seductive concept, maybe take it out for coffee, but…...
Can You Identify This Woman?
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (55+ words) Undated. Photo Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2001.040.034 Can you identify anyone in this photo? Contact Acadia Roher, 443-873-5164 or [email protected]. To see more from the Jewish Museum of Maryland's collections, visit jewishmuseummd.catalogaccess.com. The post Can You Identify…...
In a Polish Town Where Locals Burned Jews Alive in 1941, New Plaques Deny Complicity With Nazis
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (81+ words) When Jews gathered this week for the anniversary of a World War II massacre in the Polish town of Jedwabne, they saw a new installation " one that denied a historical consensus about the grievous events that unfolded there, JTA reported....
102-Year-Old Jewish WWII Veteran Honored by JWV, Local Government
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (79+ words) North Oaks Senior Living, Jewish War Veterans Post 167 and the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland-Chabad came together on Wednesday, April 30 to recognize a Jewish veteran who went above and beyond in his service to the U.S. during World War II. Dr....