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Life Jessie Kornberg Brings Justice to Los Angeles
Courtesy of Jessie Kornberg If you haven’t yet heard of the public interest law firm Bet Tzedek — the time has come. On December 1, Los Angeles attorney Jessie Kornberg was appointed as the organization’s next president and CEO. The San Francisco Bay Area native was chosen after a four-month search and will be the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Researchers Use Imaging to Find Mass Graves
An international team of researchers launched a study of Holocaust-era killing sites in the Kremenets region in western Ukraine. The project was initiated this year by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, whose April report on killing sites ruled out conducting archeological digs in such locales as this violates Jewish religious laws. The study…
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Fast Forward Ireland Holocaust Ceremony Will Mention Israel After All
Despite initial guidelines banning the mention of Israel, speakers at a Holocaust commemoration ceremony in Ireland in January will refer to the Jewish state. The Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, responding to complaints after a website published a letter indicating that the event’s longtime master of ceremonies should “not refer to the Jewish state or the…
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News 93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Faces Charges in 300,000 Murders
A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday. Nearly 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, in which some 6 million Jews as well as Roma, homosexuals, disabled and political opponents to the…
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Fast Forward Claims Conference Boost Holocaust Grants by 21%
The Claims Conference will increase its allocations to social service organizations serving Jewish Holocaust survivors by 21 percent over last year. The allocations for 2015 will total $365 million, a raise of $80 million over 2014, the president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Julius Berman, announced in a statement. Additional allocations…
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Culture Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens
● Beautiful Yetta’s Hanukkah Kitten By Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by Jill Pinkwater Feiwel and Friends, 32 pages, $17.99. Spared from the butchers’ knife, Yiddish-speaking Yetta makes her home in Brooklyn, trying to find a new family and do good where she can. A Holocaust survivor? Not exactly. Yetta is big white chicken with long eyelashes…
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Fast Forward ‘Hunt for Jews’ Wins Yad Vashem Book Award
Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. Grabowski was awarded the prize for his book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland,” the Holocaust museum and memorial said in a statement. The award was presented at Yad…
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Opinion How Israel Treats African ‘Infiltrators’
The new Anti-Infiltration Law presented by the Israeli government, after two previous iterations of the law have been voided by the High Court, is the culmination of the development of a completely unreasonable government policy toward the foreigners from Africa. Government officials and members of Knesset keep referring to Sudanese and Eritreans as “work infiltrators”…
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