Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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Food How the Nazis robbed Alice Urbach of her cookbook
Growing up, there were always two copies of the cookbook “So kocht man in Wien!” (That’s How You Cook in Vienna!) in the German historian Karina Urbach’s family home. There was the original, written by her grandmother, Alice, first published in Vienna in 1935. Some 500 pages long, the book is encyclopedic, an amalgam of…
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News Fear and resilience: Vienna’s Jewish community takes stock after night of terror
Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami had just wrapped up a board meeting on Zoom with members of Vienna’s liberal Jewish community Or Chadasch when he received a phone call. It was one of the board members, calling him to say that shooting had broken out in the area of Vienna near the city’s main synagogue on Seitenstettengasse….
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Fast Forward Vienna Jewish community on lockdown after attack near synagogue kills at least 4
Members of the Viennese Jewish community were told to stay indoors until at least midnight on Tuesday after a shooting spree that began near the Austrian capital’s main synagogue that killed a least four people and injured 15. The authorities said the gunman was a sympathizer of the Islamic State and had been slain by…
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News Danny Michelson, 76, Co-Founder Of Boutique London Grocer
(JTA) — La Fromagerie began with a wheel of Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, procured by chance on a skiing holiday in the French alps, and a garden shed. Back in 1992, Patrician and Danny Michelson sold their home to open their first cheese shop in the north London neighborhood of Highbury. Patricia had previously been selling…
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News Rabbi Stanley Michaels, 73, Integral Part Of Life At London’s Mill Hill Synagogue
(JTA) — Over the past 35 years, Rabbi Stanley Michaels taught hundreds of boys how to put on tefillin. Michaels was an integral part of life at London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, where he organized Sunday morning breakfasts in honor of the synagogue’s bar mitzvah celebrants. He was renowned for his singing voice, which would fill…
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News Henri Kichka, 94, Educated Belgian Schoolchildren About The Holocaust
(JTA) — Henri Kichka was nearly broken by the Holocaust. His father died in Buchenwald at the war’s end after a death march. His mother and two sisters perished in 1942, having been sent straight to Auschwitz. Kichka was the lone survivor, and he emerged from the war distant and pessimistic, undergoing long periods of…
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News Enrique Mugica Herzog, 88, First Jew To Serve In Spanish Government Since Inquisition
(JTA) — Enrique Mugica Herzog, a former political prisoner who became the first Jew to serve in a Spanish government since the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, died of the coronavirus on April 10. He was 88. In the early 1980s, Mugica played a pivotal role in talks that led to the establishment…
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Opinion Labour’s leaked anti-Semitism report is just a cover for Jeremy Corbyn
The dream that its new leader Keir Starmer would bring unity to the British Labour Party lasted all of a week. Over the weekend, an internal report authored during the final months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership on the party’s response to its years-long anti-Semitism crisis was leaked. The document was intended for the Equality and…
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