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Florida Atlantic University’s Interim President John Pritchett and the university’s Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education will host “The Paragons of Virtue Tribute Dinner” featuring keynote speaker Arlene Herson, Jan. 11 at the Live Oak Pavilion in FAU’s Student Union, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
What do you think the back to back snowstorms mean for the rest of the winter? COOLBAUGH TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY - A woman who survived the Holocaust and went on to become an award winning author brought history to life for students in the Pocono Mountain Area School District.
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor and the man whose family hid him from the Nazis in Poland reunited for the first time in 64 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, and Bronislaw Firuta, 82, met Nov. 25 in New York, where they came to be honored by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
North Mecklenburg High School students designed butterflies Tuesday in remembrance of the children that died in the Holocaust.
CALDWELL – Following a reunion at JFK International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 25, two Polish men whose paths crossed during World War II will attend Sabbath services together at Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell on Saturday morning, Nov. 28.
Yoav Shamir is an Israeli who wondered why his country has such an obsession with Nazis, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. For Shamir, the constant reference to the...
MIDDLETOWN - A Holocaust remembrance night was held at SUNY Orange Monday to keep alive the memories of the six million Jews who were slaughtered by the Nazis.
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Naples —Eighth-grader Lorena Mita can fondly recall her Albanian grandmother’s cooking.Majd Ibrahim, 12, told his class mates that when he can’t sleep, his grandmother will wake up and they will cook together.For Pine Ridge Middle School consumer science teacher Sandy Brock, recipes not only carry memories, but history.That is why Brock has developed a semester-long project for her consumer ...
Learning about Nazi World War II concentration camps through textbooks is one thing, but talking with an actual Holocaust survivor is quite another, Niangua High School psychology students said of a recent school trip.
Holocaust survivors are taking part in a Hanukkah celebration in South Carolina.
CARBONDALE, Colorado - Granting forgiveness to Christopher Columbus doesn't come easy for Ramon Nenadich. Born of the Taino people indigenous to the Caribbean islands, his ancestors were the first to witness the "holocaust" brought by Europeans after Columbus' historic landing in that region in 1492. "At first, this concept of forgiving Columbus was very hard for me to process," Nenadich said ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) -- A group of Brazilian public school teachers will travel to Israel to learn about the Holocaust. Some 15 non-Jewish teachers from Brazilian public schools will join educators from Jewish schools and B'nai B'rith next month for a course at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
CARBONDALE, Colorado - Granting forgiveness to Christopher Columbus doesn't come easy for Ramon Nenadich. Born of the Taino people indigenous to the Caribbean islands, his ancestors were the first to witness the "holocaust" brought by Europeans after Columbus' historic landing in that region in 1492. "At first, this concept of forgiving Columbus was very hard for me to process," Nenadich said ...
Israel's chief rabbi made a rare visit to a Palestinian village on Monday to condemn the torching of a mosque allegedly by Jewish extremists, saying the attack brought back memories of the Holocaust.
YASUF, West Bank (AP) — Israel's chief rabbi made a rare visit to a Palestinian village on Monday to condemn the torching of a mosque allegedly by Jewish extremists, saying the attack brought back memories of the Holocaust.
