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The “Sciesopoli Ebraica–Children’s home of Selvino” museum tells the remarkable story of some 800 Jewish orphans who were sheltered after the Holocaust in the Alpine town of Selvino before ultimately immigrating to Mandatory Palestine.
“It’s horrible and mortifying that something like that was allowed to happen, and a child wasn’t asked to be removed from the parade,” said Jewish Federation’s executive director Alex Shapiro.
“We are currently planning how and when to execute you. At the next rally? Or will we get you outside your home?” read an email sent to Green Party politician Cem Ozdemir.
This was the first time that the U.S.-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which provides monthly financial assistance to more than 265 aged and needy Righteous Among the Nations living in 18 countries, has reunited Holocaust survivors and their rescuers in Israel.
“It is morally unacceptable and highly distasteful that anyone should trade in personal items, artifacts or documents of Holocaust victims or from the Holocaust era,” according to Yad Vashem.
The board voted 5-2 with “just cause” to terminate the employment of Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson.
This “outrageous and deeply offensive” incident is “another example of SJP’s anti-Semitic practice of marginalizing Jews and reducing their identity to their connection to Israel” on college campuses, says ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
“Do you support or do you condemn the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state?” posed Benedictine University senior Ayah Ali.
“The Devil Next Door” examines whether he really was “Ivan the Terrible” or if it was a case of mistaken identity, as well as covers the media frenzy around his case.
The vandalism is believed to have taken place on Rosh Hashanah.
The Aurora community center stresses outreach to young, unaffiliated Hungarian Jews and others.
The 93-year-old, known as “Bruno D.,” is accused of aiding and abetting 5,230 murders as part of the force at the Stutthof concentration camp.