Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah
by Curt Schleier (JTA) — Alan Moskin served in Patton’s 3rd Army as it liberated Mauthausen. The experience, he said in an unintentional wordplay, was…
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Wealthy Luxembourg is Western Europe’s last Holocaust deadbeat
by Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — When Luxembourg assumed the chairmanship of the world’s foremost international Holocaust remembrance task force, its government pledged energetic action. “We…
The Poway shooting exposes the fractured state of our communal discourse
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshipper at a San-Diego area Chabad and…
A former Jewish punk rocker wrote an acclaimed novel about Holocaust memory
by Curt Schleier (JTA) — At first glance, Bram Presser looks more like a punk rocker than a sensitive novelist. He has two big lip…
All the 2019 Jewish Tony nominees
by Emily Burack NEW YORK (JTA) — The Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday were dominated by “Hadestown,” a musical about the Greek myth of Orpheus…