Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 1, 2022
Earlier this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conferred its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on the Ritchie Boys, a little-known special World War II U.S. military intelligence unit that included many Jewish refugees from Nazism...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 1, 2022
Among the myriad Holocaust narratives we tell, which almost always end in tragedy, the fate of the passengers on the MS St. Louis exerts a particular hold on our imagination.
Of course, it does. The juxtaposition of strong, conflicting emotions —...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2022
Lilo Fauman was a Holocaust survivor, a proud grandmother, a talented writer and an extrovert. Born in 1923 in Munich, Germany, Fauman and her family narrowly escaped the Nazis during Kristallnacht and arrived in the United States in February 1939.
Fauman...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2022
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum displays many timeless, sobering artifacts. Those visual reminders of the Holocaust provide visitors with a sense of history and offer a glimpse into Europe during the early 1940s. The museum has been collecting...
(JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.
Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won the...
(JTA) – Forty-five percent of American adults believe the United States should be a “Christian nation,” according to the results of a new survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center — the latest data point finding modern support for Christian...
(JTA) — In an usual move, a chief rabbi of Russia has accused a senior defense official of antisemitic hate speech in connection with the war in Ukraine, and a spokesperson for the rabbi warned of the onset of “a new era in Russia’s relations with...
(JTA) – Popular Jewish YouTube personality Ethan Klein was suspended from the platform for a week after he made a Holocaust joke about prominent right-wing Jewish pundit Ben Shapiro, escalating a war of words between two large Internet political factions...
Frances Levine has been appointed the Interim Executive Director for the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, the Museum announced today. Levine will lead the Museum as it searches for a permanent Executive Director, to be selected in the coming...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 20, 2022
As a boy growing up in Mainz, Germany, Luigi Toscano was fascinated by World War II. But he was frustrated by a lack of detail about a dark period in the country’s history: the Holocaust. His history teacher offered little information, and his textbook...
By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published October 20, 2022
There’s a formula when politicians and celebrities say something antisemitic. First, the news cycle goes wild. The public figure defends or clarifies their initial statement. Or they backtrack. Then, once it’s clear that there’s no turning back...
Amit Naor, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 13, 2022
How did a bureaucratic mix-up during Israel’s 1950s austerity period lead to one of Israel's most unique culinary innovations? How did an Ashkenazi Jewish Passover recipe end up on the holiday table of every Jewish Israeli, and where does the distinctive yellow color of the soup almond come from? In short, here is the story of Israel’s prized "shkedei marak"
