Memorial
UK’s Holocaust Memorial Will Be Designed By Firm Behind Smithsonian Black History Museum
“We wanted to orchestrate an experience that reminds of the fragility and constant strife for a more equitable world.”
How Auschwitz Can Be Both a Memorial and a Center for Education
We are aware that tourists visit the Memorial, but from our perspective the Auschwitz Memorial is not a tourist attraction. First and foremost, it is a place where we commemorate the fate and life stories of the 1.3 million people deported there.
Swedish Jews Boycott Holocaust Memorial Co-Organized by Nationalist Party
(JTA) — Dozens of Swedish Jews said they would skip a Holocaust commemoration event in the southern city of Gothernburg due to the involvement of a nationalist party in organizing it. The Göteborgs-Posten daily on Wednesday published a full-page ad by some 40 Jews, of which only two were identified by name, about the involvement…
A Friend’s Poignant Goodbye to a Jewish Victim of the Oakland Warehouse Fire
Samantha Saltzman pays tribute to her friend, visual artist Jon Bernbaum, who died doing what he loved in the Oakland Warehouse fire.
Crossfit Guru Does Handstand on Holocaust Memorial, Posts to Instagram
Crossfit ‘guru’ Dave Driskell is in hot water with his nearly 70,000 Instagram followers after posting a photo of himself posing on top of the Berlin Holocaust memorial.
Palestinian Revenge Victim's Name Removed From Israeli Terror Memorial
Israel will remove the name of a slain Palestinian teen from a national monument to “Victims of Terrorism” in response to a request from his family, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
'Tough Year For Jews' Remembered at Holocaust Candle-Lighting
Holocaust survivors who decades ago launched ‘The Annual Gathering of Remembrance’ — New York City’s largest and older Holocaust commemoration — could not have imagined that 70 years after their liberation anti-Semitism in Europe would once more be a primary concern for Jews worldwide.
$50M Holocaust Memorial Planned for London
Britain will build a new Holocaust memorial in the center of London with the help of $50 million in government funds.
Greek Jewish Cemetery Vandalized With Swastikas
Vandals desecrated the Jewish cemetery in the central Greek city of Larissa, spraying swastikas and threats on the cemetery wall.
Remembering 'Leibel'
Leibel was the life-long Jewish social justice activist who (in 2013) could write with conviction, “Social Justice Does Not Need God.” At the same time, of the 1,570 (!) of Leibel’s writings in the “Leonard Fein Collection” in the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner, 424 contain references to the God in Whom social justice activists need not believe. Leibel, known for his bons mots, often remarked, “All of Jewish theology may be summed up in the following: ‘If there is one, there’s only one.’”
