Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 8, 2022
Back by popular demand, St. Louis Jewish Light Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Bob Cohn is returning for his every-other-month meeting of "On the Record with Bob Cohn."
The meeting will take place this Friday, February 11 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Bob will...
Menachem Posner, Chabad.org/News
• Published February 7, 2022
(Chabad.org) Viewers of Chabad.org/Video and consumers of the website’s in-depth essays have long known and enjoyed the prolific scholarly output of Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Downtown Brooklyn and rabbi of Congregation...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 6, 2022
Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) was the first American-born spiritual leader of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, founded in 1654, and the first Jewish congregation to be established in North America.
Seixas received...
Mark I. Pinsky, The Forward
• Published February 6, 2022
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Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man.
Whatever...
(JNS) The European Jewish Congress is asking the U.S-based publishing house HarperCollins to pull a book they said contains an “incendiary claim” that a Jewish notary told the Nazis where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during the Holocaust.
“In...
Stewart Ain, The Forward
• Published February 1, 2022
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In anticipation of Thursday’s observance of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa., it should...
Sharon Rosen Leib, The Forward
• Published January 30, 2022
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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ recent decision to create a permanent exhibition...
Jordana Horn, Kveller
• Published January 28, 2022
Two weeks ago, a school board met in Tennessee and unanimously decided that Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel “Maus” should be banned from the eighth grade curriculum due to “profanity” and “nudity.” Spiegelman, a cartoonist,...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published January 27, 2022
Jan. 27, 2006 — First U.N. Holocaust Remembrance Day
The first U.N.-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson, says...
Lev Golinkin, The Forward
• Published January 27, 2022
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Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust...
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, nations around the world honor the six million Jewish victims of the...
