Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
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Fast Forward Hungary Slammed for Award to ‘Racist’ Far-Right Journalist Zsolt Bayer
– The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum slammed the decision by the Hungarian state to grant a prestigious award to Zsolt Bayer, a journalist long criticized for articles deemed racist and anti-Semitic. The state awarded Bayer the Knights Cross of the Order of Merit last week. “This award is intended to recognize individuals who demonstrate excellence…
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Fast Forward Italy’s Jews Vow To Aid Areas Hit by Deadly Earthquake
ROME – Italy’s Jewish community pledged aid to the areas of central Italy hit by a deadly earthquake early Wednesday morning. Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, issued a statement saying Italy’s Jews expressed full solidarity with the victims of the quake and were also ready to mobilize “in…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Jewish Leader Returns Award in Protest of Far Right-Winger
– The president of Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella organization, Mazsihisz, has returned a high state award to protest the same award being presented to a nationalist journalist described as racist and anti-Semitic. In a Facebook post, Andras Heisler, who is also a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, said he was returning the Knight’s…
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News That Time the Synagogues Took Over the Streets of Krakow — Again!
(JTA) — For the sixth year in a row, the seven synagogues in Krakow’s historic Jewish district, Kazimierz, opened their doors for 7@Nite – or the Night of the Synagogues, a one-night mini-festival aimed at bolstering Jewish pride and promoting Jewish awareness among the public. Each synagogue – from the Gothic Old Synagogue, now a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis To Visit Rome’s Great Synagogue Sunday
When Pope Francis crosses the Tiber River to visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue on Sunday, he’ll become the third pontiff in history to do so. But his 1.5-mile journey to the towering Tempio Maggiore shows that what was once unthinkable is now the norm. “Our meeting,” Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni told the Catholic…
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Opinion What the ‘Auschwitz Showers’ Fiasco Teaches Us About Holocaust Tourism
(JTA) — Pawel Sawicki gets to his desk every morning by 7, but he works no regular office job. Sawicki is an information officer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Memorial and Museum, the sprawling complex in southern Poland that encompasses the largest and most notorious Nazi death camp. More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered…
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Food Kosher Dining Hall Comes to College of Charleston
Dara Rosenblatt, the Jewish student life program coordinator at the College of Charleston, at an Israel fest celebration on campus, April 23, 2015. Renowned for its gracious architecture and signature Southern charm, Charleston is increasingly celebrated as a foodie heaven. The trouble is, in a city whose culinary specialties embrace (and glorify) oysters, she-crab soup…
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News Poland Museum Only Tip of Cultural Revival Iceberg
(JTA) — Crowds have been streaming to Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews since its core exhibition opened Oct. 28 at a high-profile ceremony led by the presidents of Poland and Israel. Thousands of visitors have toured the museum’s eight interactive galleries that tell the 1,000-year story of Jewish life in Poland and…
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