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It has been 77 years since World War II ended, yet the world will never forget the six million Jews and countless other victims who were murdered during the Holocaust. While Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, is recognized by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the people of Israel and Jewish individuals across the globe commemorate the victims annually on Yom HaShoah, the "Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and...
Sara Snyder Epstein, of Sanford, Fla., died in her sleep on April 2, 2022. She was 102. Sara was born on June 1, 1919, in Annapolis, Md., to Benjamin and Yetta (Farber) Snyder. When Sara was five, the family moved to Easton, Md. She attended State Teacher College at Townson, 1936-1937. After completing secretarial school at Strayer Business College, she worked at Cat's Paw Rubber Company in Baltimore, 1938-1940. She worked in the Panama Canal Building in Washington, D.C., 1940-1943. She became... Full story
NOF HAGALIL, Israel (JTA) - During Veronika Maidanova's first two days attending school in Israel, the 8-year-old felt completely lost. "Everyone spoke Hebrew and I didn't understand anything," she recalled, weeks after fleeing her native Ukraine for the safety, but unfamiliarity, of Israel. Then her mother heard about a school focused on new immigrants where 90 percent of students speak Russian. She quickly enrolled Veronica in the Shuvu Renanim school in Nof Hagalil, a city of 41,000 in the...
Barry Manilow tests positive for COVID, will miss NYC debut of his musical ‘Harmony’ By Andrew Silow-Carroll (New York Jewish Week) — Singer Barry Manilow tested positive for COVID-19, preventing him from attending the New York premier of his musical “Harmony.” The show, about a real-life musical group popular in Germany in the years before World War II, opened Wednesday night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan. “I am heartbroken to say that I have just tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t be able to attend tonight’s ope...
(JTA) - Madeline Millman was just 17 when she took center stage at the Adams Theatre in downtown Newark, New Jersey, stepping into the same spotlight where the Andrews Sisters, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and many of her other heroes had performed for sold-out houses. "I closed my eyes, focused in, and said to myself, '5,000 people or one person, it doesn't matter - I'm singing,'" she recalled. "And I felt really good about it." And why not? Madeline had skipped school with friends to take...
(JTA) - The Oscars went on as usual- although you wouldn't know it from the morning-after conversation. A violent altercation between celebrities became the most-discussed moment of the evening (more on that below), and general reviews for the show itself were dismal, full of criticism for its slapdash presentation and pre-taping of several awards categories. But there were a few Jewish moments to be had in the three-and-a-half-hour evening. Here were the highlights: 'CODA' nets a Best Picture...
(JTA) - Mayim Bialik has become arguably the most visible Jewish face on TV, thanks to her gig hosting "Jeopardy!" and her presence on ever-present "The Big Bang Theory" reruns. But for her latest project, "As They Made Us," Bialik stepped behind the camera to write and direct a semi-autobiographical, low-key melodrama about a Jewish family encountering death and dysfunction. Will it have tearjerker moments? Well, it is produced by Chicken Soup for the Soul (via its film distribution arm,...
