Wednesday, April 11, 2012
An indelible film, ‘Shoah’ also reflects an extraordinary artist
By Rabbi David Wolpe
Surely the most unpromising premise for a film ever conceived is this: Nine and one half hours of people speaking in languages you do not understand. . .
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Self-styled historian seeks clues to Japan’s Holocaust survivors
By Elyse Glickman
Akira Kitade is a former Japanese tourism executive who still relishes the opportunity to show a newcomer the cultural sights of Tokyo. He also. . .
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Yom HaShoah 2012 events calendar
By Ryan Torok
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Conference to probe ethics of Holocaust studies, honor historian
By Tom Tugend
What are the moral and artistic limits faced by a novelist, filmmaker, historian or artist in depicting the Holocaust?. . .
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Holocaust Remembrance Day Draws Crowds to Pan Pacific
By Jonah Lowenfeld
An estimated 2,000 people gathered on May 1 for Los Angeles’ annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pan Pacific Park. The crowd,. . .
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Holocaust Book Reading Brings on Reunion and More
By Ryan Torok
Dina Frydman Balbien, 81, whose experiences in the Holocaust are told in a book written by her daughter, Tema N. Merback , wasn’t expecting to find. . .
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
World Memory Project on Holocaust Victims Calls for Information
JTA
The World Memory Project, which is set to build the world’s largest online database of information on victims of the Holocaust, has been launched.. . .
Monday, May 2, 2011
U.S. Holocaust museum presenting roll call of victims
JTA
Holocaust survivors and members of the public are reading the names of Holocaust victims at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The. . .
Sunday, May 1, 2011
From the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, a challenge for today
By Sara J. Bloomfield
Sixty-five years ago at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, 22 defendants stood in the dock. They represented a cross-section. . .
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
JTA
"Israel is the historical commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust," President Shimon Peres said at a Yad Vashem ceremony marking Yom Hashoah.. . .
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Israel taking matters into its own hands on Holocaust restitution
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
The Israeli government is firing a new salvo in the turf war over Holocaust restitution. Following years of complaints by survivors about opacity and. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Whole Truth
By Jonathan Kirsch
On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, I can think of no more appropriate act of remembrance of the Holocaust than to reconsider the circumstances. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
I object, I make waves
by Sonia Levitin
My mother saw to it that we escaped from Nazi Germany intact, while a dozen family members, those who refused to leave, perished. That fact has. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Jews saving Jews
By Michael Berenbaum
As I was finishing reading Andrew E. Stevens’ memoir, “Rebel With a Cause: The Amazing True Story of Urban Partisans in World War II,” in. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Rudolph Kastner gets a new trial
By Jonah Lowenfeld
Leave it to the artists and attorneys at Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by introducing — or reintroducing —. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Holocaust remembrance in the age of genocide
by Menachem Z. RosenSaft
We have no way of knowing whether God spoke to the dead of the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany during the winter and early spring of. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Deceiving the audience and the self
By Tom Tugend
“The Führer Gives the Jews a City” must rank as the oddest film fragment in cinematic history.. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
German city honors Jews who fled
By Lauren Bottner
David Meyerhof makes his living as a teacher, but when he travels to Heidelberg in mid-May, it will be as a student. Meyerhof, grandson of Nobel. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Holocaust survivors win modest pensions
By Jonah Lowenfeld
"Anything from Germany today?” That’s the question Jeffrey Kobulnick, a senior associate in the Los Angeles legal office of Foley & Lardner, asks. . .
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
We were not alone
by Tad Taube
This year, the first day of Passover and the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fell only one day apart. Passover teaches the story of. . .
Monday, April 25, 2011
We will never forget
by Robin Heinz Bratslavsky
It has been more than 65 years since the end of the Holocaust, and each year, on Yom HaShoah, Jews commemorate the loss of the 6 million Jewish men,. . .
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Rooms of the heart: The bridge between Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron
By Toby Klein Greenwald
In his official Memorial Day speech at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described how, as a young soldier, two of his. . .
Monday, April 12, 2010
Easy to forget, Sharansky tells March
JTA
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who now heads the Jewish Agency for Israel, led more than 10,000 people in the March of the Living in Poland. . .
Monday, April 12, 2010
Loving Israel is in the details
by Joel Chasnoff, JTA
In honor of Israel’s 62nd birthday, I’ll forgo the expected Op-Ed about Israeli government corruption, the Bibi-Obama drama, or the Israeli. . .
