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  • 'Paper Love': Paving the way for post-survivor storytelling

    Batya Ungar-Sargon, JTA|Nov 14, 2014

    NEW YORK (JTA)-As the last generation of Holocaust survivors ages and dies, efforts to capture their final, untold stories have abounded. But in her new book "Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind," Sarah Wildman has turned instead to the future, asking what it means bear witness in a world without Holocaust survivors. "Paper Love" chronicles the author's long and labyrinthine search for the fate of the woman whose black-and-white photos she finds amid her late...

  • Open Hillel holds first conference at Harvard

    Batya Ungar-Sargon, JTA|Oct 24, 2014

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA)-Harvard senior Rachel Sandalow-Ash scanned the exuberant crowd that packed a campus auditorium on Saturday night. "Wow," she said, speaking to an audience of some 350 composed primarily of American college students. "This is amazing. This is really cool." Sandalow-Ash, 21, went on to discuss the importance of nurturing a pluralistic and intellectually diverse Jewish community. "We believe that no one should be excluded because of their views on Israel-Palestine, or really...

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