UWEC students uncover the history of Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe
In June 2024, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students and Geography Professor Harry Jol would join others and start a four-week geology research project at the Jungfernhof Camp in Latvia, an ...
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An UES street corner gets a new name — after a Holocaust museum in Israel
(The other is a weeklong art exhibit at City Hall curated by the Israel-based museum featuring 11 works created by liberated Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.) Both the art exhibit and the street ...
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14 Jewish Groups Leave X as Elon Musk Doubles Down on Nazi Rhetoric
Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Fourteen U.S. Jewish groups announced they were leaving the social media platform X on Monday. A statement from the groups cited the rise of antisemitism ...
Time26d
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
Among them was a shelter in a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. The hideout was built by enlarging and bricking up a grave pit, creating a roughly square space that could fit several people standing.
New York Daily News27d
Have Israel keep Auschwitz as a Jewish cemetery
With most survivors now gone, with my generation, the second generation, now aging, soon the greatest evidence of this horrific chapter of Jewish history will be the “mute voices” of what ...
The New York Times27d
States Don’t Have a Right to Exist. People Do.
The better question is: Does Israel, as a Jewish state, adequately protect the rights of all the individuals under its dominion? The answer is no. Consider this scenario: If Scotland legally ...
The Jewish Chronicle27d
Dalston Jewish cemetery to be restored following National Lottery grant
Balls Pond Road, the oldest Reform cemetery in Britain, is set to benefit from major improvements thanks to a £190k grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (Photo: Islington Council) ...
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Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
For Weisz-Gut, maintaining a Jewish presence in the town – even if tiny – is vital. As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp nears, on January 27, a disturbing trend is emerging ...
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Does D.E.I. Help or Hurt Jewish Students?
Reports from Stanford University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania found that Jewish students sometimes felt excluded by D.E.I. programs, rather than protected by them.
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Russian shelling damages Jewish cemetery in Ukraine where pogrom victims are buried
(JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Ukraine, was reportedly shelled Sunday in fighting close to the Russian border. The cemetery, where about 1,500 Jews are buried, is the latest Jewish site ...
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Remembering Douglas’s forgotten pioneer Jews along the Mexican border
Time has been harsh to this graveyard. The Bisbee-Douglas Jewish Cemetery has been desecrated by vandals, student initiations, truck drivers busting through the barbed wire fence, party-goers, and ...