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Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Elka Weber

Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...

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Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

Michal Shaul

Although ultra-Orthodox Israelis don’t stand as the siren blares on Holocaust Memorial Day, the memory of European Jewry’s destruction continues to shape their community Michal Shaul Looking on from the sidelines, one might think Israel’s...

20th centuryArticlesHolocaust dayIssue 69 | June 2024Land of IsraelReligions

One Minute to Midnight

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In loving memory of Dr. Moshe Avital, Holocaust scholar, educator, author, and speaker, whose unwavering faith, courage, and resilience inspired so many. Lessons from History – innovative educational Jewish history programs Seventeen years ago, as...

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Voices of the Past | Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

S. Z. Kahane possessed a keen sense of history. Enormous changes had overtaken the Jewish people, demanding a narrative beyond the dry and factual. Drawing on the wellsprings of classic Jewish exegetical literature, Kahane penned...

ColumnsHolocaustHolocaust dayIssue 48 | July 2019JerusalemPost-1948RabbisZionism

Drawing for Dear Life

Yemima Hovav

Charlotte “Lotte” Salomon was born just over a century ago to a wealthy Berlin family. Her father, a surgeon, pioneered mammography. Her mother committed suicide when Lotte was only nine, though the cause of death...

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Spark of Rebellion

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Tension in the Air For the staff of the Treblinka death camp, Monday morning, August 2, 1943, dawned routinely. The SS officers went about their duties. Prisoners were rounded up for morning roll call, given...

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A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

actorsArticlesHollywoodHolocaust dayIssue 32 | June 2016ViennaWomenWWII

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

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Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto