‘Like the burning bush’: Rabbi’s book survives Holocaust – and the Los Angeles fire
'Sacred Fire' by the Warsaw Ghetto rabbi was almost all that was left of LA rabbi’s home
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Fast Forward Warsaw Ghetto memorial defaced with anti-Israel graffiti
The red graffiti says “Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025,” and was written beneath a quote from the book of Job
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Opinion After more than 100 Gazans died trying to access food, will the world finally address their starvation?
At least half a million Gazans are currently believed to be at direct risk of starvation
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Books In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls
Lauren Grodstein's 'We Must Not Think of Ourselves' focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming catastrophe
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Yiddish World Warsaw Jewish socialist martyr Artur Zygielbojm was a harsh critic of Zionism
The play 'Amid Falling Walls' links the Bundist with Jewish longing for Palestine. He would have balked at this interpretation
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Yiddish World New musical of Yiddish ghetto songs reminds us why Israel was founded
One great hope expressed by many Jews during the Holocaust was the dream of returning to their ancient homeland
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Yiddish World New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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