RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved an agreement to allow students, teachers, and researchers in Brazil to teach and research the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and other Jewish-related subjects. Under the agreement, Hebrew-language...
By Hillel Kuttler, JTA
• Published January 13, 2012
1 out of 1 Other Media Karl Nurnberger sheltered a Jewish baby from the Nazis and later raised him, and now the son is searching for others aided by his adoptive father in order to get his heroism recognized by Yad Vashem. (Courtesy of Peter Nurnberger)...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
St. Louis attorney Michael Wetmore recalls watching his mother Trudy Hochster Wetmore quietly blessing his son in a German train station before the latter's departure to see a friend in Paris. "She turned around and said ‘The last time I was in this...
By Eric Mink, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 4, 2012
It was a good year for genocide. Or, more precisely, 2011 was a good year for pursuing, prosecuting and punishing mass murderers, torturers, sadists, rapists and exterminators-and the ideologues, strategists and functionaries who enable the dirty work...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 4, 2012
In his latest book, "License to Murder," former Holocaust Museum and Learning Center of St. Louis director Alex Grobman revisits "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" - a known forgery published by the Czarist Russian Secret Police to justify...
By Jennifer Rubin, Sophomore, Parkway Central
• Published December 14, 2011
One of the hardest, but most important parts of being a police officer is the training. Officers learn and participate in activities that include physical training, continuing education, driving tests, role-play and target practice. To become an officer,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 12, 2011
It was the day before Rosh Hashanah when Norm Berkowitz finally felt that Congregation Kol Am could be forced to disband."I got a piece of concrete information where I knew then that we were not going to make it," reflected Berkowitz, who, as president,...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 28, 2011
In a sense, Hannah Rosenthal is guaranteed job security as long as she stays at her post in the U.S. State Department.Rosenthal, 60, is U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a position she's held since 2010. And, as history has shown,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 21, 2011
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Many people already are aware that ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early, and many know that the disease is more prevalent in Jewish women of Ashkenazic descent. However, few people are aware that ovarian...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center is putting out the word that new funds are available for those who survived or fled the Holocaust. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) (www.claimscon.org) announced...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 3, 2011
Rachel Benrubi, who was honored as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" because her Christian Greek Orthodox family sheltered seven Jews from the Nazis during World War II, died Wednesday, July 27, 2011. She was 86.Mrs. Benrubi was born as Elenista...
By Mia Kweskin, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 27, 2011
Editor's note: Mia Kweskin is a member of the Jewish Light's Ohr Chadash teen staff and an aspiring movie critic who attended an early screening of "Sarah's Key." She firmly believes the film is a must-see for all teens. Look for Ohr Chadash monthly in...
