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November 16, 2011
Shoah Foundation gathers stories of Rwandan genocide
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute is home to more than 52,000 videotaped testimonies about the Holocaust, and people searching the archive’s index enter a single keyword into their queries more than any other: “Auschwitz.”
Israel strikes Gaza sites after rocket lands near Israeli kindergarten
Israeli airstrikes hit two terrorist targets in Gaza in retaliation for two rockets fired at southern Israel, including one that landed near a kindergarten.
Jews reeling in wake of Penn State scandal
Rabbi David Ostrich, who leads the lone congregation in State College, Pa., couldn’t bring himself to sermonize last Shabbat on the scandal that’s on everyone’s mind.
Palestinians staying the course on Security Council bid
The Palestinians will continue to press their bid for full membership in the U.N. Security Council.
Will Iran be the wild card in presidential election?
As reports circulate about an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iranian progress toward building a nuclear weapon, issues of foreign policy and
Attitude of gratitude
I work as an on-call hospice chaplain, and I am often paged following the death of a patient. I was called recently to support a rather large group who had just witnessed the death of a woman in her 90s, whom I’ll call Bea.
Survivor: Motek Kleiman
“It was such a winter, with wind and snow. It was Dante’s night.”
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