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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, we continue to grapple with the lessons of the Holocaust and how we should approach Holocaust education for our
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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 bravest man I know. He’ll be celebrating his 21st birthday next week. Three years ago he was actively sabotaging
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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 living) to Auschwitz commemorating the 70th anniversary of deportations to the death camps (and the Shoah of Hungarian Jewry), with Irwin Cotler MP. Earlier, MP Cotler chaired an international parliamentary panel on
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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 so much. Please, please, everybody have a seat. Well, thank you, Steven, for your incredibly generous words, for
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La Shoá contada a través de sombras (The Holocaust Told Through Shadows)
Lehakat Naguía of the Jewish Community of Uruguay (Kehilá) (2014 Yom Hashoah Program)
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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 night, we arrived at our hotel and immediately got ready for Shabbat. We lit candles and went to services that were very uplifting and energetic. After services and a mifgash (recollection) session, we
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Making Amends
Mosaic By Robert Eli Rubinstein A mysterious request leads the Canadian-born son of a Holocaust survivor back to the old country. “There’s someone here to see you.” “Who is it?” “Her name is Magda Zelenka,” replied my receptionist. “She says she has something important to discuss with you, but she doesn’t
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March of the Living: Videos from Hungary
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The IDF Remembers the Fallen and Protects the Living
“And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart…” (Deuteronomy 8:2) The “witnesses in uniform” delegations program sends hundreds of IDF officers each year
