There are some new faces at UCLA. Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan were recently hired to be the Torah educator couple for the Orthodox Union\’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC).
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH), dubbed the \”Wandering Jew of the Community\” by one survivor, has lost one more rented home, found interim shelter in another, but is dreaming of a permanent place of its own.\n\nLed by a self-described \”quixotic\” physician as chairman and a feisty executive director, the museum is fighting tenaciously for its survival and insists that it fulfills a needed mission in Los Angeles and in Holocaust education.
On Nov. 6, the Zimmer Children\’s Museum took on Hollywood when the organization honored Barbara Fisher, executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Entertainment Services, and actress Cynthia Sikes Yorkin (best known for her roles in \”St. Elsewhere\” and \”L.A. Law\”) at the Zimmer\’s third annual Discovery Award Dinner.
At a time when we should be applauding those who are willing to respond to the escalating barrage of anti-Israeli rhetoric, Adam Rubin\’s acrid assessment of Alan Dershowitz\’s \”A Case for Israel\” furthers a disturbing trend — that anything that promotes Israel in a favorable light be viewed, and ultimately dismissed, as simply works of propaganda or fiction (\”Israeli History the Dershowitz Way,\” Oct. 17).
Its high profile — spurred by an aggressive and media-savvy leadership — makes the Simon Wiesenthal Center an inviting target.
CBS feared that the early Hitler would be \”humanized\” into a sympathetic figure as an abused child and misunderstood artist or as a German Rocky who overcame tremendous odds, and even that the film might trigger pogrom-like outbursts.
Themes for this year\’s submissions to the fourth Holocaust writing contest by Chapman University\’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education ranged from defiant public protesters in Berlin to the instigators of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to hate mongers from Hitler to Osama bin Laden.
As a child at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, Marion Blumenthal Lazan spent hours looking for four identical pebbles inside her shabby living quarters.
What do the Kurds have to do with Holocaust? More than you might think.
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