After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission
Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old.
sdjewishworld5h
Threatened by Fire, Neighbors and Strangers Pull Together
Jan. 22, was supposed to be routine. After our daily Minyan at Chabad RB, I buckled my son into his car seat and headed out for the familiar drive to school. The morning commute usually offered a few ...
Jweekly.com5h
‘I did not understand I was still alive’: At 100, Auschwitz survivor recalls Holocaust horrors
A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor in San Francisco recounts the horrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the concentration camps. She also has advice.
Anne Frank House recreated in NYC: ‘We remember the 1.5 million lives of Jewish children that were cut short’
The Amsterdam annex where Anne and her family hid from the nazis for two years has been recreated at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan.
The Forward5h
As latest Elon Musk controversy swirls, some American Jews come to his defense
After Elon Musk appeared to gesture like a Nazi salute, he was defended by the ADL and many Jews. Then he made a Holocaust joke.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5h
Elon Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’
Netanyahu pointed to Musk’s visiting Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack and advocating for what he said was “Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek ...
Anti-Defamation League finally comes for Elon Musk after his series of Nazi ‘jokes’
The Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,’ the head of the ADL rebuked Donald Trump’s ‘best buddy’ ...
New York Sun6h
Harvard’s Settlement of Lawsuits on Campus Antisemitism Are but Modest Steps Against an Entrenched Bigotry
The two settlements announced this week of antisemitism lawsuits against Harvard are modest steps forward for that university ...
KAWA7h
Jews in the U.S. welcome the ceasefire in Gaza, but mourn lives upended by the war
Jewish groups in the United States are warily welcoming Israel's ceasefire agreement with Hamas, while mourning the many casualties of the war in Gaza.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency8h
Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived.
ADL, which had defended Musk, takes issue with his Nazi puns
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit committed to fighting antisemitism, criticized tech billionaire Elon Musk for ...