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News Briefs

Can You Cry 'Hitler' in a Crowded University? Rutgers Investigating

By JTA

Rutgers University is investigating a student-run satirical newspaper for publishing an article that praises Hitler and attributing it to a Jewish student. The Daily Medium, which receives university funding, published the false column "What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" in its April 4 edition and attributed it to Aaron Marcus. The university is investigating […]

Keeping Jerusalem

Rabbi Chanan Porat - The Shofar is Silent

By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org

Rabbi Porat oncesaid that his proudest parliamentary achievement was having sponsored and ensured the passage of a law entitled “Do Not Stand by Your Neighbor’s Blood”—rendering it a legal duty to offer assistance to someone in mortal danger. Based on a verse in Vayikra, Rabbi Porat’s law ensures that sanctity of life is a national value not only in word, but in deed.

Op-Eds

Harvard Never Learns

By Stephen H. Norwood

This past weekend Harvard hosted a One-State Solution Conference, designed to promote the dissolution of Israel. It is only the latest example of that university’s longstanding practice of facilitating the spread of anti-Semitism.

News Briefs

Illinois Republican Candidate for Congress Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Oak Lawn Patch reported that Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler's birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District. "As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international […]

Interviews and Profiles

Underreporting The Holocaust At The ‘Paper Of Record’: An Interview With Student Filmmaker Emily Harrold

By Elliot Resnick

If you asked someone to outline the profile of a director making a film on The New York Times’s coverage of the Holocaust, “non-Jewish,” “college student,” and “South Carolina native” would probably not be the first descriptors he would use. Yet, they perfectly fit the profile of Emily Harrold, a 21-year-old senior who is currently completing “Reporting on the Times,” a film inspired by Laurel Leff’s 2005 book, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper.

NY / Global

Students Ask, ‘Where Was The NY Times During The Holocaust?’

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Last April, NYU student Emily Harrold embarked on the production of a film exploring why The New York Times under-reported the Holocaust during the 1940s. Now, a little less than a year later, the project has expanded to more than twenty students.

Jewish / US

Yakima Congregation Reveres Ancient Torah Saved from the Holocaust

By Tibbi Singer

Jewish scribe Rabbi Moshe Druin discovers a Torah that was rescued from Prague, after being stashed "for safety" by the Nazis.

Analysis / Moshe Feiglin

The Answer Is In Our Hands

By Moshe Feiglin

Recent polls show yet again that the vast majority of Israeli society is traditional, holds from its religious faith and shies away from coercion. Thus, hasn’t the time come for our national leadership to express the desires of the large Jewish majority?

Jewish / US

Secret Posthumous Mormon Baptism of Holocaust Victims, Jewish Leaders

By Malkah Fleisher

The secret posthumous baptism of key Jewish figures by the Mormon church has caused outrage in the Jewish community and led to an apology by Mormon leaders.

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Viera Rybarova: A Remarkable Mission

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Last year Viera Rybarova, professor of English language and literature in Bratislava, Slovakia, undertook a formidable task. Having read my Holocaust memoirs, she decided to translate one of the books into Slovak, where there is still a shortage of literature on the tragic fate of the Jews seventy years ago.

Rebbetzin's Viewpoint

Shidduch Challenges: Nothing Has Changed

By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

We have myriad matchmaking programs all over the world, from word of mouth to computerized, from well-intentioned individuals and professional shadchanim to singles organizations.

News Briefs

Germany Grants 10 Million Euros to Yad Vashem

By Jewish Press Staff

The grant will be conveyed in yearly installments over a ten-year period.

News Briefs

Canada's FM: 'There Is No Better Friend to Israel Than Canada'

By Jewish Press Staff

Canada's foreign minister and finance minister are on an official

News Briefs

Turkish Public TV to Broadcast Epic Holocaust Documentary

By Jewish Press Staff

"Shoa", a 9-hour French documentary about the Holocaust, will be broadcast for the first time by a Muslim country.

Potpourri

The Invisible Woman (Part II)

By Anonymous

Dear Cheryl, Your thoughts in last week's column were an absolutely perfect reflection of everything going through my mind and the minds of many of my friends for the last few years. Thank you so much. I always enjoy reading your articles, and when I read this one I felt I had to write to you because the topic touches such a nerve with me.

Jewish / US

Holocaust Museum Rebuffs FDR Backers

By dvora

Defenders of President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust were dealt a blow last week when a study by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum rejected a claim they have made regarding the U.S. failure to bomb Auschwitz.

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Sister Rose Thering: Sister Rose's Passion

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Sister Rose's Passion is a documentary film on the life of Sister Rose Thering, a life that stood for love of Jews, for fighting prejudice, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Israel / US / Global

Holocaust Scholars Criticize Obama

By Jewish Press Staff

Eighty-five prominent Holocaust scholars last week criticized President Obama for failing to respond to Libya’s hosting of a Darfur war criminal.

Jewish

Raoul Wallenberg's 100th Birthday: Iranian Participation, New Investigation

By Malkah Fleisher

A celebration of the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of over 20,000 Hungarian Jews in the final days of World War II, also marks the renewal of investigations into the events surrounding his death. In attendance - the Iranian Ambassador to Hungary

Op-Eds

The Reason For The Silence

By Rabbi Berel Wein

It will take a major change of mindset in the religious world before we are able to face down the extremists and not merely be silent in the face of such desecration of the Torah and God’s holy name.

Op-Eds

Trivializing The Holocaust

By Abraham H. Foxman

There was a time when no one living in Israel needed a reminder of what was at stake when the Jewish state was created in 1948 in the aftermath of World War II and the Nazi Holocaust.

News Briefs

Knesset Committee Passes Bill Banning Use of Nazi Words and Symbols

By Jewish Press Staff

Using Nazi slurs or symbols in public to be punishable by NIS 100,000 fine.

Israel / Global

Dutch Legislator Seeks Govt. Apology to Jews for Holocaust "Passivity"

By Malkah Fleisher

“Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night,” Wilders said in a speech in New York, “parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.”

Editorial

An Obscenity In Jerusalem

By Editorial Board

We thought the outrageous incident involving an eight-year-old child being spat on by a haredi man because he didn't think she was modestly dressed was about as over the top as one could get.

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Serials

The American Front

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