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world war ii
How ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ took Jessica Chastain down a rabbit hole of Jewish history
Naomi Pfefferman
March 22, 2017
Unlikely villains: Denmark’s ‘Land of Mine’ is a tale of role reversals and national hatred
Tom Tugend
February 24, 2017
Producer David Permut brings a soldier’s valor to the screen in ‘Hacksaw Ridge’
Naomi Pfefferman
February 24, 2017
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ is a German best-seller for 2016
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2017
The annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” sold 85,000 copies in the one year since it was released in print for the first time since World War II.
Jewish World War II POW appears in Clinton ad, slamming Trump as ‘insulting’ US military
Jewish Journal
September 19, 2016
A Jewish World War II prisoner of war appeared in an ad for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying her rival Donald Trump “insulted all of our military.”
Greta Friedman, Jewish refugee and subject of iconic World War II photo, dies at 92
Tom Tugend
September 12, 2016
Greta Friedman, who came to the United States as a Jewish refugee and unwittingly became the subject of an iconic World War II photo, died Sep. 8 of pneumonia at a Richmond, VA hospital.
What Martin Luther King Jr. would teach Black Lives Matter about Israel
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2016
American Jews, and not just those who call themselves “progressives,” have identified with, and participated actively in, the movement for racial equality in the US since the founding of the NAACP in 1909 as well as the post-WWII civil rights crusade that transformed America.
New rail line to connect high-tech Tel Aviv with holy Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2016
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are only 40 miles apart but they often feel like different planets, not just in terms of mentality but because the commute from the Mediterranean to the hills can sometimes take two hours.
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