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Anti-Semitism can be as blatant as a swastika scrawled on a synagogue door or as subtle as passing somebody over for a job because of a last name. Anti-Semites do not always wear brown shirts or white hoods, and sometimes, anti-Semitism can be the unintentional result of poor taste. Germany’s Spiegel Online reported this week the [...]  We join in mourning the passing this week of Nancy Wake, a freelance journalist and member of the French Resistance who in 1944 helped establish communication lines between the British military and the French Resistance ahead of the Allied invasion, according to The New York Times. As a freelance journalist in Vienna in the 1930s, according [...] Responsibility was a common theme in the news this week: A French rail firm faces the responsibilities of its past, a State Department official reminded us of our responsibilities to avoid repeating the horrific mistakes of the past, and Poland continues to avoid its responsibilities to Holocaust survivors. Appropriately, this week’s Torah portion, Acharei-Mot, also [...] Standing on a curved base, to represent the cycle track of the Velodrome d'Hiver, is the work of the Polish sculptor Walter Spitzer and the architect Mario Azagury. Spitzer's family were survivors of deportation to Auschwitz. The statue represents all deportees but especially those of the Vel' d'Hiv. The sculpture includes children, a pregnant [...] Claire in her apartment There’s art and architecture, croissants and culture, elegance and espresso, shopping and sophistication. It’s Paris. But on this trip, Diana Kogan, program officer at the Claims Conference, saw two different sides to Paris. There were those survivors she visited in beautiful homes, like Lily. Interned with her family in the [...] |
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