After vandals stuck Europe\’s largest Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Jewish leaders are asking area metal dealers to check for wrought-iron objects that might have been stolen from the cemetery.
After months of turmoil, a communal umbrella organization for Europe’s Jewish communities was re-established in Paris. The European Council of Jewish Communities was re-established with 20 member organizations that approved articles of association at a board meeting last week. Rather than political matters, the council will focus on its original mandate, including Jewish education, welfare and heritage for member communities.
More than 60 years have passed, yet French filmmakers are still wrestling with their country\’s less than heroic role under Nazi occupation during World War II.
In \”Ever Again,\” the Simon Wiesenthal Center, having documented the Holocaust and its aftermath in earlier films, presents a frightening picture of a rising wave of European anti-Semitism, fueled by Islamic fanatics and neo-Nazis.
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An Israeli-Palestinian Confederation is an idea whose time has come.
The Eastern Europe-Israel Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Conservative movement\’s United Synagogue Youth.
One speaker characterized the Berlin Jewish community as \”a piece of the mosaic that makes up our history\” and emphasized the importance to the city of today\’s Jewish community, which numbers approximately 30,000.
Wounds are plentiful in Eli Wiesel\’s \”The Time of the Uprooted,\” an absorbing novel that moves back and forth in time, from 1940s Hungary to New York at the end of the 20th century, shifting points of view, with emotional intensity packed into memories and stories.
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