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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at SXSW 2019. Credit: Flickr.

Holocaust survivor calls for Ocasio-Cortez to be removed from Congress for comments

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Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg accused U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday of “spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity” and called for her to be ousted from Congress. “She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading...
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Rethinking restitution: A case for Jewish dignity

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This is in stark contrast to other European Union states,...
Georges Loinger, a Jewish resistance fighter who saved more than 350 Jewish children by helping them escape from France over the border with Switzerland, passed away on Dec. 28, 2018. Credit: Claude Truong-NGOC/Wikimedia Commons.

Georges Loinger, who saved 350-plus Jewish children during the Shoah, dies at 108

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Georges Loinger, a Jewish man with Aryan features who managed to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, died on Friday at the age of 108. Loinger became a member of the French Resistance...
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Obituaries and the Greatest Generation

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Holocaust Survivors are our Greatest Generation. Their resilience and immigrant contribution to American life is formidable and compelling. The Bay Area is home to between 210,000, and 350,000 Jews. During 2018, the biweekly J of Northern...
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses guests at the second Hanukkah party the White House hosted on Dec. 6, 2018. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

Father of daughter killed in Parkland shooting lights White House menorah

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WASHINGTON–Ten months after losing their daughter Meadow in the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Andrew Pollack and his family stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump as he lit...

‘Samuel Project’ stars Hal Linden as Holocaust survivor

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The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the  San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about...

Surviving the Shoah by hook or by crook

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This book came to me “over the transom,” that is, without any previous warning.  Even though it is three years old, I’m glad that I had a chance to read and review it, as...

Holocaust survivor repays a debt in ‘The Last Suit’

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Holocaust survivor Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Angel Sola), the protagonist in the Spanish language, English-subtitled film The Last Suit, has a promise to keep before his children in Argentina move him out of his house and pack...
Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street, between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Honoring Polish rescuers in Warsaw who risked all to save Jews during the Holocaust

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The sacrifices of Polish rescuers of Jews living in Warsaw during the Holocaust was honored on Sunday in one of the largest gatherings of Shoah rescuers in the Polish capital—and in what may be...
Senior citizens enjoy a meal for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, organized by the "Keren Leyedidut"(International Fellowship of Christians and Jews) organization, in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. April 10, 2014. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90.

Israel Welfare ministry invites seniors, Holocaust survivors for free holiday hospitality

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The Israeli government is working to ensure that no senior citizen or Holocaust survivor enter the upcoming holiday season alone, opening up a hotline for eligible participants to receive free holiday accommodations and inclusion...