Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine
Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
Nazi collaborator monuments
Jozef Tiso, who deported tens of thousands of Slovakian Jews, is honored with plaques in several cities and towns
Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
There are statues and streets in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin
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Michael Adler has never been in the foreign service. But Adler, a Miami-based real estate developer and Democratic party donation-bundler, has a close relationship with President Joe Biden going back more than four decades. And Adler, who is turning 70 and has been an amateur pilot since age 21, said he has spent so much…
There’s a storm brewing in the American Jewish community over a definition of antisemitism that appears, upon first glance, quite banal. “Antisemitism,” it reads in part, “is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” But the language, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016, comes packaged with…
This Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. However, the day is only one of many points on the calendar which commemorate the victims of the Holocaust — the most prominent of which are Yom HaShoah, International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the fast days of Asarah b’Tevet and Tisha b’Av. Of course, for those whose families…
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When UJA-Federation of New York and the nonprofit research firm Idealware provided congregations with an overview of the marketplace for synagogue management software in 2013, the list and explanations of possible vendors went on for eight pages. Now, there’s one synagogue management software that dominates this landscape: ShulCloud. About 1,200 congregations around the world use…
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) —Robert Pollack was a scientist, author, Navy veteran and former chair of the department of biochemistry at Temple University’s School of Dentistry (now Kornberg School of Dentistry) who grew up speaking Yiddish at home with his immigrant Jewish parents in West Philadelphia. Pollack graduated from West Philadelphia High School and was…