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Your guide to 2021 (virtual) Yom HaShoah commemorations
Despite a year of isolation and pandemic restrictions, Jewish communities around the country are finding ways to come together for Yom HaShoah, the annual commemoration to honor the more than six million Jews murdered by Nazis and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust.
How to make an ‘A+ human being’: Q & A with Bruce Powell and Ron Wolfson
In their new book, “Raising A+ Human Beings: Crafting a Jewish School Culture of Academic Excellence and AP Kindness,” Dr. Bruce Powell and Dr. Ron Wolfson explore the unique benefits of a learning environment fueled by Jewish values. I experienced the results firsthand, as a former student of de Toledo High School, which Dr. Powell created and ran. He and Dr. Wolfson, a professor of education at American Jewish University, collaborated to analyze de Toledo as a case study in Jewish education. The result is a customizable instruction manual on how organizations can replicate a “culture of wisdom and kindness,” combining academic achievement and personal growth. The two men will speak with Dr. Wendy Mogel on reimagining Jewish education April 6 at 6:30 ET via Zoom in a program sponsored by the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center. My interview with the authors has been edited for length and clarity.
How a Jewish treatment center created community during the pandemic
As did treatment centers around the country, Beit T’Shuvah faced the question:without that community, could they provide the same effective treatment?
104-year-old Iranian Jew was gathering tools for his garden when attacked by killer
Grieving relatives of Youssef Mahboubian say they are baffled by his murder
Suspected killer just ‘flipped out’ before killing 104 year-old L.A. Iranian Jewish man
Adam Dimmerman bludgeoned Youssef Mahboubian to death
Suspect but no motive in brutal killing of 104 year-old Youssef Mahboubian
Persian Jewish man in Encino stabbed and killed
Gerri Miller, whose journalism embraced heavy metal and Jewish culture, dies
Gerri Miller, an entertainment, music and lifestyle journalist who made the unlikely leap from heavy metal reporting to Jewish journalism, passed away on March 14 in Los Angeles following a six-month battle with cancer. She was 67.
UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among students
Anti-Israel resolution ”inadvertently hidden’ from Jewish groups
Want to ruin a good date? Bring up Israel.
Not long after they matched on Hinge, Shapiro, sensing the grad student’s politics leaned further to the left than hers, had warned him: “I’m not woke.” He had said he could take it.
African scholars say it’s time to discuss the Holocaust, again
Once upon a time, the Holocaust mattered to Africans. While Germans rampaged through North Africa, African newspaper editors saw Nazi atrocities as yet another argument against the so-called civilizing benefits of Western colonialism. African nations tried to prevent their Jewish residents from being hauled off to camps, some of which became synonymous in the native language with the word for hell.