Steve North
By Steve North
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Fast Forward A Queens-based Holocaust survivor remembers her real-life rescuer played by Anthony Hopkins in ‘One Life’
Hanna Slome of Flushing, 99, was one of 669 Czech children sent to Britain thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton
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Fast Forward Hillel Silverman, longtime rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, is dead at 99
A journalist recalls the career and brush with notoriety of Silverman, the founding rabbi of a Dallas congregation
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Community 100-year-old Holocaust survivor compares Trump to Hitler
I’d like to say a few words about Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, and Ruth Nussbaum. Let’s start with Ruth, who is marking her 100th birthday on September 30th, and isn’t overly thrilled with the occasion. As she told me a few weeks ago, “I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody”. Ruth Rozanski was born in Offenbach,…
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News Meet ‘Aunt Bertie,’ The Longest-Serving Jewish White House Staffer
(JTA) — When Eleanor Roosevelt or Bess Truman sent a formal invitation to one particular White House staff member, they often addressed it in the customary form of days gone by: “To Mrs. William Reynolds,” the envelope would read. Mrs. Reynolds, a dark-haired beauty who handled presidential correspondence, lived in Virginia and had a pronounced…
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News Lee Harvey Oswald’s Killer ‘Jack Ruby’ Came From Strong Jewish Background
(JTA) — We were sharing a pastrami sandwich and pickles at the Los Angeles landmark Canter’s Deli. I was 24. She was nearly 50 years older, with a piercing voice as loud as her flaming red wig. Her name was Eva Rubenstein Grant, and she was a little-known nightclub manager the morning of Nov. 24,…
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Opinion Accepting a 73-Year-Old Invitation
On one side of the faded but well-preserved invitation it is written that the groom’s parents “tienen el agrado de invitar a Usted”; on the other side the bride’s parents “hobn dem koved aykh ayntsulaydn” to the wedding of their children, Chanale and Baruch. The date of the nuptials: “el 1 de Diciembre de 1934,…
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