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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah In Israel, 80 Years Later
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – Eighty years after he missed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Shtamberg celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday with his family and friends in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Shtamberg was born in Warsaw, Poland, and should have celebrated his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, but instead…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah — 80 Years Late
Eighty years after he missed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Shtamberg celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday with his family and friends in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Shtamberg was born in Warsaw, Poland, and should have celebrated his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, but instead he was taken to…
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Life Why I Went Gray
While Proverbs describes gray hair as “a crown of glory [that] is found in the way of righteousness,” most people think of gray as the color of the weary, the tired and the old. When it’s discovered — eek! — in one’s own hair, it’s to be hidden away at all costs (literally, if you’ve…
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Fast Forward Belgium Exempts Holocaust Survivor Pensions From Taxes
(JTA) — Belgium’s Finance Ministry has exempted dozens of Dutch Holocaust survivors from penalties for not reporting special pensions they received from the Netherlands. The New Flemish Alliance, the ruling party of the Belgian state of the Flemish Region, led a reform in federal tax regulations implemented this month that exempts the survivors living in…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Is Smashed
(JTA) — A monument in Hungary commemorating Jewish slave workers later murdered in the Holocaust was defaced. At least three marble plates signifying Jewish headstones were smashed Sunday in Balf, a town located 120 miles west of Budapest, the Jewish weekly Szombat reported Monday. A government spokesman issued a “strong condemnation” of the act, which police are…
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Fast Forward Trump Appointee Praised Writer Who Defended Holocaust Deniers
A pro-life activist whom President Trump appointed to run the Department of Health and Human Services’ family planning programs once praised a controversial writer who repeatedly defended Holocaust deniers and was once fired for writing columns that his own editor called “anti-Semitic.” Teresa Manning, a new deputy assistant secretary at HHS, edited a book of…
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Life Is This Miu Miu Dress Mocking the Holocaust?
A photo of a Miu Miu plaid dress with a yellow star appliqué seen in the window of Canadian luxury retailer Holt Renfrew circulated on social media over the weekend, and people are outraged. Comments on a closed Facebook forum ranged from, “They spelled Jew wrong,” to “Shame on them!” Some observed that the star…
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Life Why I’m Reading Holocaust Literature Today, In Trump’s America
My agnostic, Presbyterian-raised husband and I, a reform Jew, never had conflict between our outlooks on life. We had a Jewish wedding; we are raising our child as Jewish, too. But the election of Trump, surprisingly, highlighted one difference between us, one that I had never noticed before. To me, the Holocaust was still very…
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