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Community I want to thank the donors who changed my life, and Colorado law
Just last week Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the bill I had introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives, with another member of the Jewish caucus, that requires Holocaust and genocide education as a requirement for graduation from Colorado public schools. House Bill 1336 directs the Colorado Board of Education to adopt learning…
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News Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys.
After his father disappeared to a forced labor camp in 1942, when George Sarlo was just 4 years old, it left a traumatic wound that would not heal for the next 70 years. Then, when he was in his 70s, Sarlo had a life-changing experience. After ingesting a psychedelic native plant in a Mexican fishing…
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News French town famous for saving Jews in Holocaust elects mayor accused of anti-Semitism
(JTA) — The municipal council of Moissac sometimes calls its placid French town overlooking the Tarn River, near Toulouse, “the city of the Righteous Among the Nations.” It’s a reference to how hundreds of locals during the Holocaust helped resistance activists rescue about 500 Jewish children — an occurrence that Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum,…
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Fast Forward Mike Myers speaks to students about hate: ‘Call it and say it’s wrong’
Mike Myers, who brought the world Austin Powers, Wayne, Shrek and Fat Bastard, isn’t the first name you think of when it comes to Holocaust education, but there he was, popping up on Zoom, to speak–– movingly–– to hundreds of students from around the world about genocide and hate. “There’s a responsibility when you have…
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Fast Forward Seth Rogen: surprise in Mel Gibson’s ‘oven dodger’ comment is that he acknowledges Holocaust
Seth Rogen admitted his surprise on Twitter that Mel Gibson’s “oven dodger” comment about the Jewish actress Winona Ryder allowed for the existence of the Holocaust. I’m only surprised by Mel Gibson’s “oven dodger” comment because it acknowledges the Holocaust actually happened. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 23, 2020 Ryder revealed (for a second time,…
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Fast Forward Portuguese diplomat who saved 10,000 Jews to be honored with monument
(JTA) — Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, will be recognized with a monument at a site in Lisbon that recognizes the country’s greatest figures. The parliament decreed the honor unanimously earlier this month at the National Assembly in Portugal’s capital. The monument will go in…
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Fast Forward A California cemetery’s Holocaust memorial, also used for ritual hand-washing, has been vandalized
A fountain that serves as a memorial to survivors of the Holocaust was pushed over Sunday night or Monday morning in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to local news reports. Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors vandalized at Santa Rosa cemeteryה >>> https://t.co/QMvdpQjdhS pic.twitter.com/Zm94eNAJnr — Monitoring Antisemitism Worldwide (@cfcantisemitism) June 16, 2020 The fountain, which also serves…
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Fast Forward Dutch-Jewish WWII hero who saved hundreds of children dies at 96
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, a Dutch-Jewish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 96. Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who died Sunday, was the last living member of the small team of rescuers who smuggled Jewish children to safety over several months from a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam,…
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