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I was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 31, 1939. I am a third-generation German. My father was born in Poland and immigrated to Germany as a 13-year-old boy to serve as an apprentice cap maker. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, things started to get bad. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, my…
How the huge popularity of postcards led an artist to produce Rosh Hashanah cards from his photo studio in Warsaw
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the end of the DACA program on Tuesday, once praised laws that kept Jewish refugees from entering the United States as “good for America” – a contention that attests to the ex-Alabama senator’s ever-present nativist convictions. Sessions was referring in his remarks, first made two years ago on Steve…
Jewish organizations and individuals vowed to fight President Trump’s decision to end a program that protects immigrants who came to the United States as children — as did the immigrants that they care and fight for. “I was crying earlier, it was very scary,” one participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who…
A Denver, Colorado synagogue and church are joining forces to help an immigrant from El Salvador who fears her life will be in danger if deported back to her homeland. Temple Micah and the Park Hill United Methodist Church are holding a joint interfaith prayer service Wednesday welcoming Araceli Velasquez and her family to take…
Israelis are exiting the country in record numbers as tensions heat up, with double the number of citizens leaving the country as returning from long-term spells abroad. According to Israel’s Bureau of Statistics, 16,700 Israelis left the country for periods of a year or more, while 8,500 people returned from a long-term stay in another…
Five years ago, the US government began implementation of President Obama’s 2012 executive order deferring deportation for US residents without papers who were brought here by their parents as children. The order came about after the proposed Dream Act, which would have given legal status to those same immigrant children, failed to pass Congress. In…
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