Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2022
On the heels of the national release of Ken Burns’ documentary series “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” on PBS, a new traveling exhibit is opening near St. Louis that examines the same important questions about what the international community, including...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2022
In watching Episode 1 of Ken Burns' documentary series “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” on PBS, St. Louis viewers received a special treat. One of our own was prominently included in the documentary.
At approximately 35 minutes in, we meet Gunther...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 19, 2022
Within the first 10 minutes of Ken Burns' “The U.S. and the Holocaust” I knew that I was going to learn things I never knew.
Part One starts with the U.S. government’s enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first time that admission...
(JTA) — Frank Saraceno has worked for ESPN since 1994 and has produced hour-long documentaries on some of the biggest stars in sports for the cable channel’s Emmy Award-winning “E:60” series.
But he thinks working on the episode airing Tuesday...
(JTA) — Iran’s leadership has returned to Holocaust denial, its leader made clear in an interview with “60 Minutes,” after distancing itself from the phenomenon.
“Historical events should be investigated by researchers and historians,” Ebrahim...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, IsraelEd.org
• Published September 15, 2022
Sept. 15, 2009 — Goldstone Presents Gaza War Report
Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew who prosecuted 1990s war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, presents his U.N.-sponsored “Report on the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.” The...
This Sunday, the first installment of Ken Burns’ documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” is set to air on Nine PBS locally from 7 to 9 p.m. The three-part, six-hour series focuses on “America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of...
(JTA) – A rare silver coin minted by Jewish rebels in defiance of the Roman empire during the Great Revolt rebellion 2,000 years ago was looted from an archaeological site and traded on the black market. Now, after years of work by American and Israeli...
It was Abakumov who in October of 1946 first alerted Stalin to the threat posed to Communism by “Jewish bourgeois nationalism” and launched into the post-war antisemitic campaign against “Rootless Cosmopolitans,” i.e. the Jews.29 This dark period...
This is part 2 of 3 detailing the story of the Soviet hunt for the Chabad underground. Part 1
In the beginning of 1946, a 22-year-old yeshivah student named Leibel Mochkin arrived in Lvov to scout out the town. With the help of his older brother, Shmuel (Mulle)...
