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Forced Out by Nazis, Grandmother Returns With Family to German Hometown
I walked with my 90-year-old grandmother down a wide cobbled street in the middle of nowhere in Germany. We were in a small town called Bechhofen, and she hadn’t returned for nearly 80 years, since the threat of the Nazis forced her family to flee because they were Jewish. As my grandmother, Senta Baum, and…
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Mother of Jewish Teen Killed on Brooklyn Bridge Speaks Out About Arrest
The mother of a Jewish teenage boy that was killed near the Brooklyn Bridge 19 years ago was grateful after learning that a man suspected of playing a key role in the murder was arrested on Thursday. Muaffaq Askar, 46, of Brooklyn, was part of a group — with suspected ties to Hamas and Hezbollah…
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The Personal Stories of the Warsaw Ghetto
While an older generation of German historians focused on the crimes of the perpetrators of the Holocaust, a younger generation has turned to the stories of the victims. Opinion editor Gal Beckerman sits down with Dr. Andrea Löw, the author of a new book, Das Warschauer Getto, about everyday life within the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Claims Conference Blames Dead Official for Botched $57M Holocaust Fraud Probe
The Jewish organization that processes restitution claims for Holocaust survivors is blaming an official who has since died for its failure to act on a 2001 warning about a multi-million scam run by some of its own staff. A spokeswoman for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany blamed the failure on Frankfurt-based Karl…
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Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88
The renowned Hungarian Jewish biblical scholar Geza Vermes, who died of cancer May 8 at age 88, disproved the old canard “You can’t go home again,” at least when it comes to Judaism. Born in the town of Makó in southeastern Hungary in 1924, Vermes was 7 when his family converted to Catholicism in what…
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Joyce Brothers, Brought Jewish Sensibility to Suburbia Through TV, Dies at 85
The Jewish psychologist Joyce Brothers, who died May 13 of respiratory failure at age 85, was a peacemaker in the emotionally fraught field of pop media therapeutic counseling. Born in Brooklyn as Joyce Bauer to a married couple of attorneys, Brothers became a primary authority on how to live in the mid-century suburban age. Although…
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Philadelphia Jewish Federation Faces Crisis as Ira Schwartz Abruptly Leaves
Philadelphia’s Jewish federation is facing a crisis of leadership. Home to the sixth-largest Jewish community in the country, Philadelphia has a new museum of American Jewish history, Jewish day schools, thriving synagogues, and a major liberal rabbinical seminary. Yet the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Ira Schwartz, departed abruptly in early May,…
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Jewish Women Call Angelina Jolie Inspiration for Breast Cancer Surgery
Joanna Rudnick was sitting in bed recovering from undergoing a double mastectomy when she read that Angelina Jolie had undergone the exact same procedure. The Hollywood superstar shocked the world by revealing that she had decided to have the surgery after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which is unusually common among Ashkenazi Jews….
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Angelina Jolie’s Breast Surgery Decision and Perils of Being (Maybe) Over-Prepared
When Angelina Jolie decides to have her breasts removed because she carries the BRCA1 gene — a mutation that some Ashkenazi Jewish women also have and which has been linked to breast cancer — it’s a choice that must throw many, many women for a loop. If the world’s most famous and gorgeous woman/mother/Hollywood superstar…
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Claims Conference Officials Were Told of Massive $57M Fraud — But Didn’t Act
Top officials at the Jewish organization that processes Holocaust restitution claims were alerted to a fraud scheme being perpetrated by the group’s own employees nearly a decade before they moved to end it. The fraud scheme, which went on for 15 years and diverted $57 million to unqualified recipients, was first described in a detailed…
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African Island’s Lost Jewish Heritage
A Portuguese rabbi and a Moroccan diplomat stood shoulder to shoulder in a Catholic cemetery here while 200 mourners howled in grief as they buried a resident of this island off the western coast of Africa. The foreigners had come to Cape Verde’s main cemetery earlier this month not to bury a local, but for…
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