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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August 14, 2014
Leonard Fein, liberal activist and scholar, dies
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
Leonard Fein, a veteran Jewish activist and writer, has died at 80.
S. African union official calls for ‘wrath’ against Jewish leaders
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
A South African union leader called for “eye for an eye” attacks on Jewish communal officials in retribution for civilian deaths in Gaza.
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.
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.\”
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.
Call for protest spurs Arab groom, Jewish-born bride to hire security for party
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
An Arab man and his Jewish-born bride hired 14 security guards for their wedding celebration in Israel in response to an anti-intermarriage Jewish group’s call for a protest rally at the hall.
Report: U.S. stiffening oversight on missile sales to Israel
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2014
The United States is tightening controls on military sales to Israel in the wake of the conflict in Gaza.\n
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.
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