Most Jewish Grammy Award: Vampire Weekend for best alternative music album
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
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January 27, 2014
Anti-Semitism past and current decried at Holocaust memorials
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
The president of the European Jewish Congress, making reference to the quenelle gesture, decried a new wave of anti-Semitism sweeping Europe at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Brussels.
We care about Ukraine
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
We Jews cannot forget millennium-long atrocities and persecutions, and we shall never forget about the Holocaust.
Why Harvard should withdraw ‘The Collaboration’
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
It is a compelling story. A young Jewish researcher teaches himself German and ultimately spends years combing through Nazi archives in search of evidence to support a heinous claim uttered by an old man.
Six million reasons I don’t like the new Holocaust book
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
I admit it. I dropped the ball on the story about the new remember-the-Holocaust-by-printing-the-word-Jew-six-million-times book. I saw it sitting in a veteran Jewish journalist’s office a week ago, but forgot to bring it up to my fellow JTA editors.
A weekend in the West Bank
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
This past weekend I visited the West Bank (or if you prefer, Judea and Samaria) through my participation in Masa Israel’s Israel Government Fellows program run by the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. For two days the Israel Government Fellows enjoyed informative meetings with Palestinian Arabs and Jewish settlers.
Israeli parliament to convene in Poland
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
Moved by concern that few eyewitnesses to the Holocaust remain and determined to ensure that memory of the atrocities of that era pass to the next generation…
Syria’s Assyrian Christians find refuge with Turkish neighbors
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
Miydat\’s Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. In every home, tables groan with remnants from the recent celebrations, which for many of Midyat\’s residents found themseslves in situations far safer than the previous holiday spent in Syria.
Israeli lawmakers, Holocaust survivors tour Auschwitz
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
More than 50 members of the Israeli parliament toured the prisoner blocks at Auschwitz on Monday to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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