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Ida and Avraham Ehrenreich. Sent on transport #31 from Drancy to Auschwitz on Sept. 11, 1942. Credit: Courtesy.

Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents

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As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...

Joan-Micklin-Silver, Pioneer Female Director, Demonstrated Popularity of Jewish Film Subjects

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Joan Micklin Silver (1935-2020) passed away on New Year’s Eve. She belonged to a cohort of pioneering American female directors in the 1970s, many of whom were Jewish. Whereas most of her Jewish counterparts...

Make the Iraqi Jewish Archive a gateway between Arabs and Jews

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I launched what is now an internationally acclaimed documentary last year, titled ā€œRemember Baghdad,ā€ which chronicles the history of the Jews of Iraq until the community’s destruction in recent decades. It’s already been seen...
Capt. Elgen Long is embraced by Yemenite Jews during a visit to Israel last fall. Credit: Shahar Azani.

Meet Capt. Elgen Long, last surviving member of flight crew that saved Yemenite Jews...

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With city lights dotting the night behind her, Dr. Dee Gaines, a neuropsychologist, sat for good reason—she’s very pregnant. But when Capt. Elgen Long, the last surviving member of a commercial flight crew that...

Secret Crypto-Jewish diaries rediscovered in New York, displayed in Mexico City

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After renouncing Judaism, Luis de Carvajal was granted mercy: Instead of being burned alive, he was tied to a pole, noose around his neck, and slowly asphyxiated to death. His body was consumed in...
Publicity photo of singer/actor Ed Ames from the NBC television program ā€œDaniel Boone.ā€ Credit: Wikipedia. | Wikipedia

ā€˜He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames

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Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Peter Chortek Leadership Award winners, from left, are Talia Schauder, Ilan Matkovski, Max Matkovski, and Aurora de Tagyos.

Four teens win Peter Chortek Leadership Awards

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The Peter Chortek Leadership Award (PCLA), facilitated annually by the Jewish Community Foundation, was recently presented to four San Diego County high school students. The 2019 awards went to Aurora de Tagyos, Ilan and...

Breaking down barriers: Bedouin women take reins of their future in Israel

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For hundreds of years, Bedouin tribes have wandered the deserts of the Middle East, and to this day, many cultural traditions unique to the Bedouin have remained unchanged, almost appearing frozen in time. While many...
Israeli Air Force pilot Lt. Yakir Mordechai Naveh

Remains of missing Israeli pilot found in the Kinneret

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The remains of an Israeli Air Force pilot missing for 56 years were recovered in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) northeast of Tiberias on Tuesday, recovered among the wreckage of the aircraft. Lt. Yakir Mordechai...
These seven immigrants to Israel will be honored as winners of the 2019 Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Prize, an annual award presented by the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization. Credit: Courtesy.

Seven English-speaking immigrants to be honored for contributions to Israel

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Seven immigrants from English-speaking countries will be honored as winners of the 2019 Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Prize, an annual award presented by the Nefesh B’NefeshĀ aliyahĀ organization. Michael Dickson, executive director of StandWithUs-Israel will be honored...