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Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube
The New York Times By Lisa Schwarzbaum Like many who share my hair texture and fondness for rugelach, I am the descendant of Jewish forebears who…
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March of the Living 2015
J-Wire 70 years after the end of the Second World War 11,000 participants, both Jews and non-Jews, joined the 27th March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Coming…
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What ISIS Really Wants
The Atlantic By Graeme Wood What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders…
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The Last Trial: A Great-Grandmother, Auschwitz, and the Arc of Justice
The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert Oskar Gröning, who has become known as “the bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” was born on June 10, 1921, in Nienburg, a town about thirty miles south of…
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70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
On January 27, 2015 we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi German concentraction and extermination camp Auschwitz. On this day the whole world was listening to…
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It’s Disrespectful for the Shoah’s Victims If All We Teach is Death
Jewish News Online By Scott Saunders, Founder and Chair of March of the Living UK How do you understand the un-understandable, explain the inexplicable? Seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz,…
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Parent of MOTL Alumni Talks About Being the Mom of an IDF Soldier
(Names have been deleted at the request of the family) Following are the remarks delivered at a community rally in support of Israel. I’m the mother of a Lone Soldier. The…
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March of the Living Budapest
March of the Living Budapest 30,000+ marching to train station where 600 participants will board train (of the…
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President Obama quotes Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust survivor who participated in the March of the Living, at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner
Remarks by the President at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, California – May 7, 2014 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you…
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March of the Living teens experience Shabbat in Poland
This past weekend has been one of the most inspirational weekends I have ever experienced. On Friday…
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