Miep Gies And Saintliness
Menachem Z. Rosensaft Special To The Jewish Week The question Roman Catholics throughout the world should be asking themselves this week is why there hasn’t been more talk about someday making Miep...
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by Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Next June, Anne Frank would be 70 years old. Public interest in the young Anne Frank and her diary — an account of her 25 months hiding from the Nazis in a...
View Article‘Freedom Writers,’ East Coast Edition
by Doug Chandler Twenty students from a tough, inner-city school walked through parts of a museum last week devoted to the Holocaust and other genocides. They also met with a Holocaust survivor, the...
View ArticleA Safe Port In The Storm
by Doug Chandler Special To The Jewish Week Weddings are normally joyous occasions, especially ones planned with the care and devotion Leona Zeplin put into her daughter’s simcha last month. The...
View ArticleLessons Of History
by Daniel Belasco Special to The Jewish Week Frankfurt, Germany - Amsterdam has long been a place of education and remembrance of Anne Frank. But in her hometown of Frankfurt, Germany, Frank's life...
View ArticleOf Scandal, Candles And Pews
With Yom Hashoah coming up (April 11), PBS is rebroadcasting -- on April 13 at 10 p.m.read more
View ArticleRemembering The Wrong Thing
Thane Rosenbaum Special To The Jewish Week The new obsession with Jewish vengeance, and what it suggests.In the topsy-turvy post-Holocaust world, genocide never ended and the Holocaust itself became a...
View ArticleSports Nicknames And The Jews
Thane Rosenbaum Special to the Jewish Week When an ethnic group or race endearingly becomes the nickname for a sports team, does that signal their arrival or shame? Native Americans have long decried...
View ArticleAnne, Still At Center Of Shoah Universe
Thane Rosenbaum Special To The Jewish Week Amid Holocaust fatigue and farce, Otto Frank’s letters pack a punch.Last week, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research revealed nearly 80 documents showing...
View ArticleA Holocaust Survivor’s Bond With Troubled Teens
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Documentary on Fanya Gottesfeld Heller focuses on the relationships she developed speaking in inner-city schools about her wartime experience.The first time Holocaust...
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