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'We are here' -- in memory and in hope
The song composed in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania's capital, is defiant. "Mir zaynen do!" it thunders. "We are here!" For all its bold determination, this song, known as the Partisan Hymn, always used to strike me as unspeakably sad. So few of...
Tags: Judaism, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Music, Vilnius (Lithuania), Massacres
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Congregation B'nai Abraham marks 120th anniversary
davem@herald-mail.comCongregation B’nai Abraham was founded more than a century ago, and over the years since there has been a rich history of Jewish life in Washington County that has been marked by Jews winning political freedom, the congregation moving through a...Tags: Marvin Mandel, Judaism, Belief and Faith, Ceremonies, Christian Orthodoxy
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Teens take life changing trip to Poland and Israel
Thousands of Jewish teenagers from throughout the world recently took a life changing trip to Poland and Israel in memory of the Holocaust. During the March of the Living, high school students, along with Holocaust survivors, commemorated Yom HaShoah...Tags: Judaism, Students, Teaching and Learning, The Holocaust (1934-1945), High Schools
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A different kind of Holocaust 'survivor' tells her story
The Buffalo NewsLiat Ben-Shay is a different kind of Holocaust "survivor." Without the Holocaust, she never would have been born. That fact still fuels her passion, to teach and create lasting art images that will tell the world about both the horrors of the...Tags: Judaism, Palestine, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Poland, Israel
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Author speaks on life of Raoul Wallenberg at Yom HaShoah event
The Religion WorldLouise Borden, author of the new book His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue and Mystery During World War II, will speak at the Yom HaShoah event 4 p.m., Sunday, April 7, at the Jewish Community Center, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. Borden's... -
TV This Week: April 7 - 13 'Louis C.K.: Oh My God' on HBO
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 7 -13, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY Yee-haw and amen! Blake Shelton and...
Tags: CBS Corp., Judaism, Australia, Zach Galifianakis, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
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Pictures in the News | April 8, 2013
FrameworkIn Monday's Pictures in the News: Laker Kobe Bryant watches Sunday's game slip away during his team's 109-95 loss to the Clippers. Performer Amelia Rudolph walks down the side of the Broad Art Center in UCLA in “Man Walking Down the Side of a... -
Five books to read now
The books in this week's roundup are united less by theme than by the fact that they're all new and noteworthy. But before we get to that, since Monday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, I'm going to throw in a sixth book — “Vera Gran: The Accused&...
Tags: Leukemia, Botany, Chicago Tribune, Fiction, Manhattan (New York City)
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Five for your planner: Monday, April 1
1. It's not the 'End of the Road' Boyz II Men will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at Shippensburg University's H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, Pa. Tickets cost $25 to $39. Call 717-477-7469 or go to www....
Tags: Schindler's List (movie), Nazi Party, Washington, DC, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Coming back to life after the Holocaust
"Happy birthday!" my mom and her first cousin will wish each other on Sunday, even though neither was born on Jan. 27. Rather, it's the anniversary of their new lease on life, of the day the Soviet Red Army liberated them from behind the barbed wire of...
Tags: United Nations General Assembly, Judaism, Prisons, Culture, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Letters: 'Never again'
Re "Coming back to life after the Holocaust," Opinion, Jan. 27 Thanks to Allan Chernoff's Op-Ed article, we learned about the United Nations declaring Jan. 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As Chernoff notes, the United Nations urged its...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), United Nations, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Yom HaShoah: A world-wide call of remembrance
Each year, the State of Michigan holds a ceremony in the rotunda of the Michigan State Capitol building to observe Holocaust Commemoration Day to honor those Jews in Michigan who are survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Of course,...Tags: Human Rights, World War II (1939-1945), Judaism, Europe, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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