Leonard Fein, progressive activist and writer, dead at 80
Tom Tugend
August 14, 2014
Leonard Fein, a towering figure in Jewish progressive thought and action, died Aug. 14. He was 80.
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Remembering Leonard Fein
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
Like so many people I know, my first introduction to Leonard \”Leibel\” Fein was as a younger activist in the Jewish community who heard him speak and suddenly heard articulated with a passion and a brilliance that I could never have attempted, all the reasons why I wanted to change the world.
Memories of Ravensbrück
Tom Tugend
August 14, 2014
By the time she turned 8 and arrived in a cattle car at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women and children, Eva Katz had survived forced labor in a brick factory and heard the rifle shots that killed her mother.
Swedish University to archive Ravensbrück survivors’ stories
Tom Tugend
August 14, 2014
\”We arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944, were led to a steam bath, and our hair was cut off.\”
Why doesn’t the world seem to care when Christians die?
Rob Eshman
August 14, 2014
When Jews are killed, we make sure the world knows.
Obama says Missouri shooting death tragic, reflection needed
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2014
President Barack Obama called the police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager a tragedy on Tuesday and urged a thoughtful response after two nights of violent protests, looting and arrests in a St. Louis suburb.
Renewed Israel, Palestinian truce off to shaky start
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2014
Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky start on Thursday with rockets from Gaza slamming into Israel and Israel retaliating with air strikes.
Yazidi toddler undergoes heart surgery in Israel
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2014
A child from the persecuted Yazidi ethnic group of northern Iraq received heart surgery in Israel.\n
Florence’s Jewish, Muslim reps appeal for interfaith dialogue
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2014
Representatives of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Florence, Italy, along with the city’s mayor, appealed for interfaith respect and dialogue at “this dramatic moment of Middle East conflict.”
Netanyahu orders Israeli response to Gaza rocket fire, official says
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to respond to Gaza rocket fire moments before a three-day truce expired on Wednesday, an Israeli official said.
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