WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is aiming to raise another $50,000 to translate more Holocaust diaries into English. The Kickstarter campaign announced Wednesday has a deadline of July 13. The museum said it had exceeded its goal of $250,000 in a monthlong campaign launched last month to translate its collection of over…
(JTA) — A Jewish paramedic in Tennessee has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his former employer for making disparaging remarks about his faith and then firing him for complaining. Joshua Jenkins was fired in March 2016 after working for the Grainger County Ambulance Service for two years. He is asking for $500,000 in compensatory…
Two weeks after a memorial to Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho was vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic slurs, the community raised nearly $30,000 for the nonprofit that hosts it. The city has “turned the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday. “Two weeks ago hate walked into the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial,” Prinzing said. “It came under…
The great J.D. Salinger is not a writer we associate with the Holocaust, but as we approach 70th anniversary of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” June 25, there’s a neglected Salinger short story, “A Girl I Knew,” worth recalling as a companion piece to Frank’s memoir. “A Girl I Knew” first appeared in the February…
Boise, Idaho’s Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial was vandalized this week. On memorial Tuesday afternoon, a tour group discovered “racist and anti-Semitic slurs” written on two different marble tablets, the Idaho Statesman reported. Representative Dan Prinzing said he would not repeat the words reading the phrase written “because it was so offensive.” The graffiti was…
The damage at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, located in a nearly one-acre memorial park maintained by the Boise Parks & Recreation in partnership with the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, will cost about $20,000 to repair The vandalism was discovered by a group touring the site on Tuesday afternoon, the Idaho Statesman reported….
In the Atlantic, Emma Green reports on the past and present of The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect and Understanding. Green finds tenuous links to Anne Frank’s family and notes that the organization “disbanded its board of advisers comprised of Holocaust experts.” And here’s what she concludes: The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect…
There are a lot of things going on in actor Daryl Deino’s American Spectator article from last week, entitled “Anne Frank’s ‘Privilege’?!” In the conservative publication, Deino recounts a disturbing conversation he overheard among a group of 20-somethings in a Glendale, California Starbucks: One of the kids sported a buzz cut, scruffy beard, tattoos all…
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