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What Those Rescued from the Titanic Experienced
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 19, 1912. “I was standing at the wheel of the Titanic when the accident happened,” said Robert Hitchens, one of the ship’s officers who was rescued. “At 20 minutes to 12, I heard three bell signals and precisely afterward received a call from the watchman…
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Rescued Women and Children Staying With Hospital Society
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 20, 1912. This is a group of Jewish women and children who were rescued from the Titanic and who are now staying with the Hospitality Society. The picture was taken especially for the Forverts in the Hospitality Society building at 239 East Broadway. The first…
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Mimouna Revelries Mark End of Passover
‘My Ashkenazi friends think I am crazy,” said Malka Joseph, a 35-year-old teacher from the Israeli city Ashkelon. “They tell me that preparing for Passover is hard enough, but preparing for two festivals back to back is unthinkable.” Joseph will host 12 guests for a Seder on April 6. A week later, a day after…
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Ties Bind Jewish Charities to Titanic
The Titanic’s sinking in 1912 coincided with one of the most vibrant moments in American Jewish history, when Jews in New York, Chicago and beyond were organizing to ease the passage of their contemporaries from Eastern Europe. Jewish organizations like the National Council of Jewish Women and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society were in a…
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Remembering Mike Wallace, A Jew Unafraid of the Truth
Of all the thousands of reports done by Mike Wallace during his four decades with “60 Minutes,” few brought as much grief to the veteran journalist and those of us who worked with him as those involving Israel. And since it was difficult to write off Mike as an anti-Semite, he was frequently charged instead…
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Forward’s Eisner Honored for Editorials
Forward Editor Jane Eisner has won a 2011 Sigma Delta Chi award from the national Society of Professional Journalists for editorials commenting on a range of social justice issues. The announcement marked the third year in a row that Eisner has been honored for editorial writing. In an April 10 press release, SPJ said the…
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Elan Steinberg, Fighter for Jews, Dies at 59
Immediately after Elan Steinberg died early on April 6 at age 59, those who understood the tremendous historical role he had played spoke about what he had meant to them and to the Jewish community. Calling him “One of the great Jewish activists of the past decades,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder described…
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Two Families and One Lifeboat
On Friday, April 19, 1912, 10 Jewish survivors of the ill-fated luxury liner RMS Titanic posed for a Forverts photographer in the offices of the Hospitality Society on East Broadway. The sad group included only a few of the 705 survivors who had been rescued by the steamship RMS Carpathia and who had arrived in…
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Katzenberg Brings Hollywood to Obama
When DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg was 21, he handled the finances for John Lindsay’s New York City mayoral campaign. Literally, that meant carrying a briefcase full of thousands of dollars around the city and paying expenses as they arose. Katzenberg is reprising his role as a campaign moneyman this year, albeit on a somewhat…
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Why So Few Rescued?
This editorial was published in the Yiddish Forward in 1912. First impressions of the horrendous accident cause a heightened awareness of one’s humanity. The victims died suffering hideous death throes. People weep and keen and rend their clothes ritually over the loss of their loved ones. At a time such as this, who could ponder…
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Lower Deck Passengers Didn’t Stand a Chance
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 21, 1912. Among the many tragedies that are now being described by those who were rescued, this is one of the most horrible. It was described by one of the rescued sailors, whose name is being withheld at his request. “I saw it with my…
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