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By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: April 29, 2007 Robert Rosenthal, a highly decorated pilot in World War II who helped usher in a new kind of warfare, the strategic bombing of Germany, in which huge bombers scraped the ice-cold stratosphere while serving as easy targets for enemy fighters and ground guns, died on April 20 in White Plains. He was 89. […]
Read moreTim Judah’s family left Baghdad in the late nineteenth century. When Saddam Hussein’s regime fell he was the first member of his family back in Baghdad for over a century. He decided to find what is left of the Iraqi Jewish community: ‘According to those that remain, their numbers add up to the grand total of thirty-four people.’ Baghdad was […]
Read moreJerusalem to honor WWII Jewish partisans with new monument By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent A memorial to the thousands of Jewish partisans who fought against the Nazis in World War II is to be erected before the end of the year at Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. The project was initiated by a few of the last remaining Jewish partisans in […]
Read moreAn older URL, to be sure, but one worth posting nevertheless. I intend to use the exhibit with the kids in my Religious School class this year for a multimedia project. This online exhibit, hosted at Florida Atlantic University Library’s contains a PDF of Seymour “Sy” Brody’s Jews in America’s Military, accompanied by a curriculum guide. http://www.fau.edu/library/brody_intro.htm Members of Jewish […]
Read moreFrom Courier-Life Publications – The Big Apple’s top cop joined the executive of a utility giant on the awards podium when the Jewish War Veterans-Kings County Council met in Mill Basin. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and KeySpan Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Robert B. Catell were delivered plaques of commendation during the group’s annual meeting at El Caribe Country […]
Read moreFrom JTA – The remains of a Jewish soldier exhumed from a common grave in Estonia were reburied in Jerusalem. The body of Lenina Varshavskaya, a Jewish nurse in the Red Army interred alongside a monument to the soldiers who liberated the city from the Nazis, was reburied Wednesday according to Jewish custom at the Mount of Olives by one […]
Read moreby Dr. Alex Grobman Many Holocaust survivors did not know Rabbi Abraham Klausner, a Reform rabbi, who died last week, but he had a profound influence of those who lived in post-war Germany and Austria. Klausner, who was an American Jewish chaplain, arrived at Dachau during the third week of May 1945. Convinced there would be nothing for him to […]
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