Holocaust
The House and Senate bills recognize 60 diplomats who risked their careers and often their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Jewish groups around the world will recognize “our heroes, teachers and inspiration.”
“It would be a tremendous shame—and a real disgrace—if the museum went forward with this conference,” said philanthropist Joel Greenberg. “It would be a stamp of approval.”
David Schaecter, president of the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation-USA, noted that the shoe giant had close ties to the Nazi Party.
“It is an attack on academic freedom, on the historical record and on Holocaust remembrance,” said Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan.
The World Jewish Congress described him as “one of the preeminent jurists and human-rights law experts of our time.”
“These cassettes, now recognized on a global scale, hold historical, cultural and social importance,” said Jewish Museum Berlin curator Tamar Lewinsky.
“The concept of remembering and honoring our dead is certainly a Jewish value,” according to the Reform Judaism movement.
“The Zone of Interest” won the Grand Prix at the prestigious film festival.
The former Pink Floyd bassist donned a Nazi-style uniform and compared Anne Frank to an Al Jazeera journalist at the May 17 concert.
“To utilize my father’s name in such vile accusations is so far beyond the pale that I am staggered by the silence in response,” wrote Elisha Wiesel.
In addition to awarding IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Daniel Gold its Presidential Medallion, YU also granted philanthropist Emil Fish an honorary doctorate.
