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Fast Forward Majdanek Prisoner’s Cap Will Be Returned to Concentration Camp Museum
A prisoner’s cap from the Majdanek concentration camp — likely stolen decades ago from the museum there — was found in the United States. The gray-and-blue-striped cap was scheduled to be transferred to the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on Thursday and returned to the museum. Experts who checked the cap confirmed its…
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Fast Forward Struck-by-Lightning Jewish Camper Marks Bar Mitzvah in Hospital
(JTA) — On Saturday, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday, the members of his family will gather around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood. This was not the bar mitzvah that Scott and Alexia Kadish envisioned seven weeks ago when Ethan…
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Opinion When Canada Kept Jews in Internment Camps
Ringed with barbed wire and isolated from surrounding communities, the notorious internment camp held more than 700 Jews in the early days of World War II. But this wasn’t Germany or Poland. Internment Camp B70 was located in a bucolic corner of the Canadian province of New Brunswick — and only now are locals, and…
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Opinion Transgender Camp Founder Talks Jewish Summer
Nick Teich is the founder and director of Camp Aranu’tiq, the first summer camp in the United States that caters to transgender and gender-variant youth (that is, children whose gender expression does not conform to conventional ideas of masculinity and femininity). The camp takes its name from an indigenous Alaskan term for a person who…
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Fast Forward Poconos Camp Counselor Accused of Molesting Boy
A counselor at a Jewish summer camp for boys in Pennsylvania was taken into custody after a camper accused him of inappropriately touching him, police said. Camp Dora Golding counselor Chisdai Ben-Porat, 19, of Ottawa, Canada, was charged with indecent assault of someone under 13 years old, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of…
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Opinion Camp Tawonga’s Missed Opportunity
It was surely difficult for leaders of Camp Tawonga to arrive at their decision not to tell their young charges about the shocking death of 21-year-old art counselor Annais Rittenberg after she was hit by a falling tree last week. My colleague Renee Ghert-Zand deftly captured their challenge in her Forward Thinking post yesterday. Since…
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Fast Forward Camper Ethan Kadish Still Critical After Being Hit By Lightning
Ethan Kadish, the only one of three campers still hospitalized after being struck by lightning Saturday at a Jewish camp in Indiana, remains in critical but stable condition. The 12-year-old from Cincinnati requires help with his breathing and needs his chest cleared, according to his family, who set up a website, Caringbridge.org/visit/ethankadish, to provide updates…
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News Falling Tree Kills Counselor From New York at Jewish Summer Camp
A Jewish summer camp counselor from New York was killed and several others injured when a 70-foot tall black oak tree fell outside a dining hall at the camp near Yosemite National Park in northern California. Annais Rittenberg, 21, a “beloved member of the Camp Tawonga staff,” was killed and four others injured when the…
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