WAVING THE FLAG AT AUSCHWITZ IS NOT AN ‘EXERCISE IN CHAUVINISM’

In his recent column in The Canadian Jewish News (There’s More to Polish Jewry than the Holocaust,) Rabbi Dow Marmur suggests that the March of the Living fosters “disdain for Poles and Poland…ignores most of Polish-Jewish history”, and promotes the “indiscriminate loathing of another people.” Rabbi Marmur also suggests that girls and

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, 80, Founder of Hineni Outreach Organization

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis—the founder of the Hineni Heritage Center, and an international inspirational speaker and mentor—passed away on Aug. 23 in New York. She was 80 years old. She was born in 1936 in Szeged, Hungary, where her father, Rabbi Avroham Halevi Jungreis, was a rabbi. The family was among the passengers

This Day in Jewish History // 1933: Jews Make a Travel Agreement With Nazi Germany

Fearing Jewish-led boycotts, Germany signed the Transfer Agreement, letting 60,000 beleaguered German Jews to reach Palestine, with their money no less. August 25, 1933, is the date of the signing of the Transfer Agreement, which enabled 60,000 German Jews to leave for Palestine while taking some of their money with

Holocaust hero was executed on Stalin’s orders, KGB chief’s diary says

Newly published diaries written by the first head of the KGB clearly state that Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, was executed in a Soviet prison, the New York Times reported on Saturday – providing the first solid evidence about the Swede’s

Yad Vashem Officials Slam Polish Government: ‘New Bill Is Very Close to Holocaust Denial’

Israeli research institute says effort to forbid claims that Poles collaborated during Holocaust ‘makes Poland part of the anti-liberal movement picking up speed worldwide.’ Yad Vashem officials have harshly criticized the Polish bill that forbids claiming that Poles collaborated during the Holocaust and warned that its approval in parliament would

AZRIELI FOUNDATION BOOSTS FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Holocaust survivors who are in financial distress are getting a $457,500 boost thanks to an allocation from the Azrieli Foundation. The funds will go to four Canadian organizations that provide services to an estimated 3,000 elderly survivors in communities across the country. Many are in dire financial straits and find

BIALIK College is on a mission to collect 600,000 buttons, searching all corners of the community, and the country, for those that have fallen off, been forgotten or are simply lying around.

Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, New York City approved its 2016 fiscal year budget, which, for the very first time, included a $1.5-million-dollar allocation to assist Holocaust survivors living in poverty. The landmark decision to pass the New York City Council Survivor Initiative was

Bialik’s Button Mission

BIALIK College is on a mission to collect 600,000 buttons, searching all corners of the community, and the country, for those that have fallen off, been forgotten or are simply lying around. This is no ordinary sewing project, as the students have a very noble aim – to unite the

How to teach the Holocaust

“Names, Not Numbers” is a copyrighted curriculum that teaches Jewish middle-schoolers about the Holocaust with an emphasis on the oral testimony of survivors, which the children immortalize on film. Focusing on individuals rather than numbers also is the approach encouraged by the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem,

Beyond Anne Frank: The Dutch Tell Their Full Holocaust Story

AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story. The diary of the young Jewish girl, who came of age hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, has long been the dominant narrative of the Netherlands’ experience during World War II. Hers is a story of inspiration and resistance that