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As I write this column... (Well in advance of publication, of course), it is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of the horrible Nazi death camps where our people suffered and many died. Attention (I'm especially addressing possible Holocaust deniers)... Here is an article directly from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Digest, written a few weeks before the anniversary day: "More than 100 survivors of the Auschwitz death camp from across the globe will travel to Poland to...
On Saturday, Jan. 24, 33 students from the Jewish Academy of Orlando sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the start of the Orlando Solar Bears hockey game. This is the second year in a row that the students have participated in this honor, and it was a great thrill for the students to walk on the ice and perform beautifully before close to 10,000 cheering fans. All students have the opportunity to participate in the Jewish Academy chorus, which is one of many after-school activities offered...
(JTA)-From Givatayim's renowned Sabich Shel Oved-a simple eggplant-sandwich shop with lines snaking around the corner-to lesser-known places like Chachaporia Georgian cuisine in Jerusalem, the new e-book "Israel's Top 100 Ethnic Restaurants" provides the English-speaking tourist a window into the delectable, folksy Israeli foods that locals have raved about for years. Israel has been on the culinary ascent of late, with dozens of food blogs, new high-end restaurants, cooking shows and celebrity...
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA)-What kept you alive? Did your non-Jewish friends reject you? Could you ever forgive? Those were some of the questions posed by Jewish young adults to Holocaust survivor Marcel Tuchman at the Galicia Jewish Museum here. "What kept me alive was having my father with me," said Tuchman, 93, a physician from New York who was born in Poland and survived several concentration camps, including Auschwitz. "And another thing was the hope I had that one day I will be able to tell the...
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The opening of an exhibit at the Austrian Embassy in Washington of more than 50 photographs by an 84-year-old Jewish Nobel laureate was something of an amateur hour-twice over. Both Austria's ambassador and Martin Karplus, the photographer, referred to the pictures-postcard-style views of Europe in the 1950s and a more recent series on China and India-as hobby rather than high art. Then at a reception, many of the approximately 250 guests handed their phones to strangers to...
Killer filmed Paris kosher supermarket attack (JTA)—The Islamic terrorist who killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket in Paris filmed the attack. Amedy Coulibaly recorded seven minutes of the attack on a video camera, including the shooting deaths of three of the victims, CNN reported Friday, citing a U.S. intelligence official. Citing a French source close to the investigation, the French magazine L’Express made an identical report. Coulibaly wore the GoPro camera, often used in extreme-action video photography, on his torso during the...
HAVANA (JTA)-On a recent Friday night inside this city's Beth Shalom synagogue, Aliet Ashkenazi, 25, stood draped in a blue-and-white prayer shawl leading prayers in a mix of Spanish and near-perfect Hebrew. It was the first time she had ever led services-a feat considering she converted to Judaism seven years ago after discovering her father was Jewish. The 300-seat sanctuary in the Cuban capital was near capacity, but the crowd filling the wooden pews was largely American, comprised of tour...
