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Daily Archives: January 27, 2022

How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and The Problems They Have Caused Them –...

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Prof. Weiser discusses (in English) the origin of Ashkenazic Jewish names and focuses on the bureaucratic issues historically associated with keeping track of and reconciling Jewish naming practices. The first of a three-part Winter...
Holocaust survivors and Israeli soldiers in Herzliya, on Oct. 25, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

More than 15,000 Holocaust survivors passed away last year

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Over the past year, 15,324 Holocaust survivors died in Israel, according to data published on Wednesday by the country’s Social Equality Ministry. According to the report, published by the ministry’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority on...
A pendant, discovered next to a mass grave in Poland, bears the words “To the faithful king, Hear O Israel, our God is One. Blessed be the name of the glorious king forever and ever.” Credit: Yoram Haimi/Israel Antiquities Authority.

‘Shema Yisrael’ pendants found in archaeological digs at Sobibor death camp

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Three pendants inscribed with the “Shema Yisrael” prayer and depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments have been discovered in archaeological excavations in the Sobibor extermination camp over the past decade, the Israel Antiquities...
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, via Wikimedia Commons

Spreading the survivors’ stories

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My friends at the nonprofit organization “Zikaron B’Salon” are always grappling with the question, “What will happen when we wake up to the headline informing us that the last Holocaust survivor has just died?” That...
Chagall Windows depicting the tribes of Zebulon to Joseph above the bima in the Abbell Synagogue. Photo by Ariella Green/all rights reserved to Hadassah.

Magnificent Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem

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When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...

“Never Again”? Really?

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According to the annual report of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitism in 2021 was the highest it’s been in 10 years. This should not replace...

Holocaust memorial in LIthuania: Protecting the nazis.

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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Today, a lawsuit was filed against the Government of Lithuania at the United Nations for Holocaust revisionism. May the memory of the victims be preserved. May those that elevate the perpetrators of...
Credit: NASA.gov.

Israel, NASA set to cooperate on space programs centered around Mars, moon

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Israel and NASA are set to cooperate on the joint study of space, the moon and Mars, according to a report in recent days by EurAsian Times. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the Jewish state...
The Unilever company. Credit: Unilever.com.

Unilever fires 1,500 workers, splits ice-cream from food division

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The multinational firm Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, announced on Tuesday that in the wake of severe losses, it will fire 1,500 workers around the world and split off its ice-cream division from...
Swastikas graffitied on a Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim near Strasbourg, France. Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock.

Hebrew University survey: More than half of Israeli Jews, Arabs expect European anti-Semitism to...

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Timed to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s European Forum reveals a new survey that says Israelis expect anti-Semitism in Europe to worsen. As for the future of Israeli-European relations, sociologist and...