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Crossroads School thanks its courageous music man

Robert David Jaffee April 13, 2007

Crossroads School in Santa Monica might not be where one would expect to find the archived works of a celebrated composer who survived Dachau and Buchenwald, especially when one considers that the Vienna-born Herbert Zipper worked as an educator at a variety of institutions of higher learning, including USC and the New School for Social Research in New York. But when Zipper died at the age of 93 in 1997, he left his papers to the K-12 school where he taught musical composition and theory in his retirement years. His relationship with the school was such that co-founder and former headmaster Paul Cummins wrote Zipper\’s biography.

Pledge to survivors — we will carry the torch

Menachem Z. Rosensaft April 13, 2007

The responsibility for transmitting the survivors\’ legacy of remembrance into the future must now increasingly shift to us — their children and grandchildren.

Social Justice gets new address on Pico

Amy Klein December 14, 2006

When Max Webb was interned at 18 different concentration camps during the Holocaust, he made a promise. \”If he survived, he would make sure he would contribute to the advancement of the Jewish people and Judaism in any way he could,\” said his grandson, Greg Podell, the director of the Max Webb Family Foundation.
Webb has made good on that promise, donating to causes in Israel and to local Jewish charities, including The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. And now, as he\’s about to turn 90, his foundation has purchased a plot of land for $3 million for a center to house two socially conscious Jewish organizations.

Broke but hopeful, one survivor says it’s ‘better than Auschwitz’

Jane Ulman November 22, 2006

Last Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Memorial Day, Walter Essinger did not attend any community vigils or synagogue commemoration services. Instead, the 73-year-old survivor spent that day, April 26, being interrogated by Ventura County detectives. He was then arrested, handcuffed and eventually booked into the Ventura County Jail.

Many aging Shoah survivors are living a new nightmare

Marc Ballon November 22, 2006

Moscovitz is one of the tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors living in abject poverty in the United States. These witnesses to the 20th century\’s worst atrocity are enduring a second nightmare, often struggling just to feed and clothe themselves.Their wartime experiences, which included malnutrition and physical and psychological abuse, have made them prone to costly medical and mental problems as they age.

Olga Bitterman’s story: Survivors helping survivors

Sarah Price Brown November 22, 2006

When Olga Bitterman, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, found out that another survivor needed help, she knew what to do. For a year, Bitterman left money in the other survivor\’s mailbox without leaving a trace of its origins.

Film: Too soon to forgive Dr. Mengele?

Robert David Jaffee November 16, 2006

Just when the film world seems to have examined the Holocaust from every possible angle, a new film comes along that shakes up our complacency.\”Forgiving Dr. Mengele\” focuses on the story of Eva Kor, one of the so-called \”Mengele twins,\” who along with her sister was subjected to the Nazi doctor\’s experiments. Most notably, it deals with the forgiveness of Nazis, a concept antithetical to many Holocaust survivors.

Theater: ‘Leipzig’ weaves heartfelt Alzheimer’s tale

Robert David Jaffee November 9, 2006

Wendy Graf was at the women\’s group at her synagogue when she discovered that a number of her colleagues were the children of Holocaust survivors. She became fascinated with the repercussions of the tragedy on their lives, but put aside the subject as she wrote \”Lessons,\” a play about a widower who decides to have a bar mitzvah. More recently, a person close to her developed Alzheimer\’s disease. The synchronicity of memory loss with so-called \”second-generation\” syndrome provided the raw material for Graf\’s new play, \”Leipzig,\” the latest offering of the West Coast Jewish Theater, now playing at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Are You There God? It’s Me, Israel

Amy Klein November 17, 2005

The year is 1999, and on the Israeli TV miniseries, \”Catching the Sky,\” Nurit walks into her Tel Aviv kitchen at the crack of dawn to find her husband doing something completely shocking and inexplicable.

Spectator – When Metal Meets Mettle

Emily Pauker June 9, 2005

Jewelry artist Gail Goldin grew up immersed in Jewish culture and scrap metal, a combination that helped inspire her Modern Myths collection.

She comes by this unusual convergence of influences through her father, Steven Goldin, a freedom fighter in Poland who helped fellow Jews escape over the Alps during World War II, before building his own business in the U.S. scrap-metal industry. The family belonged to an Orthodox shul in Detroit, although they weren\’t Orthodox.

When Goldin put this all together — stirring in some life experience and a fascination with universal spiritual symbols from world cultures — she first made silver rings adorned with carved Asian good-luck beads called netsukes. Out of these rings came the idea for her Modern Myths collection. Several Modern Myths pieces combine stones with beads, mounted in ornate bezel designed silver.

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