A Healer Returns
March 6, 2003
niel Libeskind is coming back to New York to help heal the wounds created on Sept. 11. He won\’t be working with words or medicine but with stone, cement, glass and steel.
Toby Axelrod, JTA
Goldhagen Book Rocks Germany
October 17, 2002
The photo was misidentified by the archive that provided it, Goldhagen told reporters at the fair.
An Appeal for Help
August 22, 2002
Floodwaters have forced some 150 Jewish immigrant families to evacuate their refugee home in Dresden.
Parents Want Proof
November 1, 2001
The parents of Israeli soldiers kidnapped a year ago by Hezbollah are asking the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to help press their case.
A Historic Change
October 25, 2001
History is in the making this fall in Germany with the opening of three new Jewish schools for adults.
Out of the Dustbin
November 11, 1999
These people are among the tens of thousands of Jews who, instead of going to Israel, caught the wave of freedom that swept the former Soviet Union after the fall of communism and rode it into the land they always associated with Hitler and death camps.
‘The Danger Is Still Great Here’
August 5, 1999
The man whom many call the conscience of Germany has announced that he has failed.
Berlin’s Jewish Museum
June 3, 1999
Michael Cullen wants people to search their attics and basements for documents, photos, paintings, you name it — photocopies are acceptable. If something is valuable, like a painting, the museum will consider purchasing it.
Community
August 7, 1998
\”Where was God during the Holocaust?\” For a moment, there was silence. Three Los Angeles rabbis sat before a group of German theology students in the Berliner Dom church, waiting for their answer. \”It is a question many Jews have asked,\” said Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark, 55, president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, during a recent German-government-sponsored visit. \”Have you confronted this question yourselves?\”
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