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Jewish War Veterans Post 360 Perform Day of Service
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (154+ words) Jewish War Veterans Post 360 in Kemp Mill performed a day of service at the Washington DC VA Medical Center on June 24. Members of the Post set up a table in the lobby and distributed kosher snacks to veterans and their…...
Opinion: War Crimes and the Death of Due Process
2+ week, 2+ day ago (616+ words) By David J. Butler The phrase "war crimes" is losing its meaning. Increasingly, even some friends of Israel concede the point, arguing only about the scale of the crimes or noting that other democracies have faced similar accusations. But that misses…...
Opinion: Elie Wiesel at 10 Years: The Defiance of Hope
3+ week, 2+ day ago (709+ words) On July 2, 2016, the world lost Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. In the decade since, his absence has left a profound silence in the global conversation on human rights. As the 10th anniversary of his passing approaches, it…...
The Wanderers" Tells the Story of Poland"s Holocaust Survivors Who Fled to the Soviet Union
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (893+ words) Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia. By Shira Li Bartov Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson's grandparents lived by the…...
AI Holocaust Content Is Booming. Is It All "Slop" " or a Solution for Fading Firsthand Memory?
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1383+ words) Toby Axelrod | JTA Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It's unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait " there is only one known film of Anne and her sister Margot. And this…...
At This Jerusalem Museum, Everyday Objects Tell the Story of the Holocaust in a Unique Way
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (781+ words) JERUSALEM " A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczc'w, Poland. These everyday…...
Opinion: What the US Ambassador to Poland Left Out When He Absolved Poland of Holocaust Complicity
7+ mon, 1+ 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
7+ mon, 1+ 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…...
Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation Honors Frank Cohn on Veterans Day
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (116+ words) Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation held another successful annual Veterans Day Erev Shabbat and Deli Dinner on Nov. 7, this year featuring guest speaker Col. Frank Cohn, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and U. S. Army veteran. The post Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation Honors Frank…...
D'var Torah: Courage, Compassion and Steadfastness
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (374+ words) This week's Torah portion is Chayei Sarah: Genesis 23: 1 " 25: 18 Each week, the Marines and sailors arrived in uniform, and one could often tell what week of training the sailors were in by the condition of their attire, some crisp and new,…...