Beth Schwartzapfel
By Beth Schwartzapfel
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News Auschwitz Survivor, 92, Testified at War-crimes Trial
George Edward Preston, longtime engineer for du Pont, E.I. and a survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau, died last week at his home in Wilmington, Del. The cause of death was multiple organ failure. He was 92. In 1965, his testimony at the Auschwitz war-crimes trials in Frankfurt am Main, Germany,…
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Israel News Brandeis Gets Fifteen More Minutes
Tuesday marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Brandeis, and so in honor of the milestone, the university that bears his name was gifted a most unusual portrait of the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. Andy Warhol’s “Louis Brandeis,” which the artist created as part of a series called “Ten Portraits of Jews…
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Culture Youth Philanthropy Movement Gains Momentum
‘Charity is right up my alley,” said Sara Goldstein, who volunteers at a hospital near her home in Scottsdale, Ariz., and teaches Hebrew school at her local synagogue. So when the time came for Goldstein’s bat mitzvah, it was only natural for her to set aside $180 of her gifts to donate to charity. But…
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Culture Spielberg To Establish New Fund
When Steven Spielberg made “Schindler’s List” in 1993, he was already one of the most financially successful movie directors of all time, so rather than reap further gain from the film, Spielberg gave his earnings away. Now, the Forward has learned, Spielberg is doing it again, channeling profits from his 2005 blockbuster “Munich” into a…
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Israel News Finding Harmony
Those who went to synagogue Saturday morning and then to the movies Saturday night may have experienced a little bit of déjà vu. The section of the Torah read in synagogues last week included Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the Tower of Babel, and among the movies that hit theaters last Friday was “Babel,” the…
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News Norman Salsitz, 86, Chronicled Holocaust
Norman Salsitz, Holocaust survivor and co-author, with his wife, of “Against All Odds: A Tale of Two Survivors,” died of pneumonia October 11 in Springfield, N.J. He was 86. Born Naftali Saleschutz in Kolbuszowa, Poland, Salsitz defied death many times — first as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis in the Polish forest and then…
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Israel News A Passion For Fashion
The day Liz Goldwyn discovered two burlesque costumes at a New York flea market, a sequined light bulb went off above her head. Though still an undergraduate at the time, Goldwyn, granddaughter of legendary movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, knew a thing or two about dresses; she had helped establish the fashion department at the auction…
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News GOP’s Page Scandal Could Boost Dem Candidate in South Florida
CORRECTION: The print edition of this article mischaracterized the view of Jeff Ballabon. He believes that if Republican leaders knew about Mark Foley’s actions and hid them for political purposes, then they should resign. The scandal over a disgraced Republican’s sexually suggestive emails to teenage congressional pages could end up swinging at least one key…
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