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A Washington state lawmaker has apologized for wearing a yellow Star of David, a universal symbol of the Holocaust, during a recent speech decrying the state government’s coronavirus vaccination campaign as well as restrictions that have been in place since the pandemic began. “It’s an echo from history,” Jim Walsh, a Republican member of the…
Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Israel Hayom published on Wednesday a full-page, close-up image of the Israel Defense Forces’ uniform shirt — featuring a yellow star with the word “Jude” pinned to the pocket. Judah Ari Gross, the military correspondent for the Times of Israel, tweeted out the image, which was captioned: “Know where you come from and…
Billy Joel made headlines last August for wearing a yellow star to his sold-out Madison Square Garden concert, which came on the heels of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. Joel didn’t make a public comment about the star at the time, but in a new interview with Vulture, he broke his silence regarding his…
No spaghetti straps. No shorts above the mid-thigh. No leggings without sweaters that cover the butt. Bras are required. Teenage girls at Joseph-François-Perrault High School seem to be channeling Nazi-era yellow stars of David on the eve of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in protest of their school’s dress code, which leaders of the student…
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman suggested stamping settlement goods with yellow stars to condemn demands for special labeling in Europe. Liberman sarcastically suggested the move in an interview Friday with Israel Radio about a letter sent out earlier this week by foreign ministers of 16 of the European Union’s 28 member states, in which they…
(JTA) — In 1944, Andras Szasz’s mother obtained an admittance slip to a Red Cross children’s home that she hoped would save her 8-year-old son from the Hungarian fascists then prowling Budapest in search of Jews to torture or kill. Szasz never made it to the home. In the summer of 1944, he and his…
A ceremony held in a Copenhagen synagogue marked the 70th anniversary of the rescue of most of Denmark’s Jews from the hands of the Nazis. Sunday’s ceremony marked the October 1943 operation in which more than 7,000 Jews were sent by boat to Sweden after they were ordered deported to Nazi concentration camps, the Associated…
Many people know the story of how the King of Denmark donned a yellow star to identify with his Jewish subjects. But few people know that the story is a myth. The tale is probably best known because of a scene in Leon Uris’s “Exodus,” published in 1958, in which an underground radio transmission reports…
Hybrid: Online and at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Oct 2, 2022
6:30 pm ET ·
A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.
