by Myra Olswang
Myra describes a moving and memorable ceremony dedicated
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to the commemoration of the massacre of 2,400 Jews in the Pakamponys forest in Birza, Lithuania in 1941. Local townsfolk and children took an active part in the ceremony and committed to retaining the memory of the slaughter and to making sure that such a tragedy would never happen again
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by Eli Libenson
Eli selects one of the early classic Hebrew writers,
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Yud Lamed Peretz, all of whose
stories, steeped in Jewish tradition, include a moral to be learned. He relates three of these beautiful stories that highlight the reward in doing good, regardless of how
difficult the circumstances.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
Hetman Symon Petliura was a Ukrainian journalist and
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nationalist leader who was seen as being responsible for most of the atrocities against Jews carried out by his armies. He was assassinated by Sholem Schwarzbard whose relatives were among the many Jews massacred. His trial in 1927 was sensational - he was acquitted on grounds that he was avenging the deaths of victims.
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by Suri Ordman
A visit to Manchester House in Givat Ram by her son
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brings back old memories to Suri (Barbara) Ordman regarding the establishment of the university. Her connections are through a family member, Alderman Abraham Moss, Lord Mayor of Manchester, in whose name the hall was dedicated. Suri invites all to come to a celebratory evening
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by Marion Stone
Marion recalls the fascinating description given first
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hand by two sisters, who grew up in Karachi. She tells of the history, life and traditions of Jews in Pakistan and, sadly, also the demise of the community of some 2,500 Jews. Opting for safety, the sisters set out for Israel via a necessarily circuitous route.
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by Sholom Weinfeld
Recalling the joys of living in a college dorm reminds
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Sholom Weinfeld that some of the same joys of friendship and solidarity with others can be found today in an Orthodox Jewish community.
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by Andee Goldman
Americans living abroad are eligible to vote in the
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Federal midterm elections. This article clearly states requirements and procedure for making your vote count.
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by Werner Bachmann
Having fled Germany in 1933 to Denmark, Werner Bachman
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recounts, from a very
personal perspective, the incredible bravery and humanity shown by the Danes in
smuggling their Jewish citizens into Sweden during WW2. He also puts the record
straight on legends that have grown up around some of the events.
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by Miriam Crosbie
A moving account regarding Kristallnacht in Fuerth,
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Germany, by Oscar and David Prager, who now live with their ever-growing families in Israel. The writer sums up: with the astonishing breakthrough of digitalization the facts are becoming better-known by the day.
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by Carl Hoffman
Arne Rabuchin tells the story of how he was saved during
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the Holocaust by members of the Danish Underground. Denmark was a rare country which protected and saved its Jews.
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by Elizabeth Levi-Senigaglia
This is the story of the relief organization DELASEM,
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set up by the Italian Jewish
communities, and Bernardo Grosser, its last surviving member. Written by a student qualifying for his degree, it is a well-researched tale of a disastrous period of recent history.
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by Carol Novis
A visit to the “ShUM” cities of Germany – Speyer,
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Worms and Mainz – which are full of medieval Jewish historical records.
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by Jeffrey Winter
The musical duo of Jeff and Janis perform Jewish music
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in America, but discover that the audience wants less of "Erev shel shoshanim" and more of "Oh what a beautiful morning". "It's a struggle to find audiences wanting a robust Jewish song list" we learn.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia talks of historical documentation which tell
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stories of Jewish survival. They
include, a magazine in Yiddish prepared by Holocaust survivors billeted in the Bergen Belsen displaced persons center; personal photographic mementoes and hand-drawn Rosh Hashana cards reflecting the story of desperate people trying to regain a sense of normality.
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