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Posts Tagged: "Holocaust"

June 19, 2009: Geneive Abdo: The Religion Factor in Iran’s Political Crisis

June 19, 2009: Geneive Abdo: The Religion Factor in Iran’s Political Crisis

Geneive Abdo, Iran analyst at the Century Foundation, talks about the religious dimensions of Iran's political crisis and the challenges it poses for the Islamic Republic’s cleric-run establishment.

Posted: Jun 19th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 2,379   
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June 12, 2009: Extended Interviews: American Jews and Israel

June 12, 2009: Extended Interviews: American Jews and Israel

Read more of the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly interviews with American Jews about Israel.

Posted: Jun 12th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 1,957   
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May 29, 2009: Painting a Jewish Memory Book

May 29, 2009: Painting a Jewish Memory Book

Jewish memory is stored and transmitted in the paintings of Mayer Kirshenblatt, who with the help of his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has preserved his own memories and the collective memories of a Polish Jewish community before World War II.

Posted: May 29th, 2009  Comments: 3   Views: 2,243   
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April 24, 2009: Holocaust by Bullets

April 24, 2009: Holocaust by Bullets

Father Patrick Desbois has documented the murder of 1.5 million Jews who were shot dead and buried throughout Ukraine by the Nazis. Finding the mass graves has been "a sacred mission."

Posted: Apr 24th, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 2,446   
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April 21, 2009: Yom HaShoah

April 21, 2009: Yom HaShoah

Memory and remembrance are central to Judaism, says artist Mark Podwal, whose documentary HOUSE OF LIFE, a loving appreciation of the old Jewish cemetery in Prague, includes the Pinkas Synagogue's memorial to Czech Holocaust victims.

Posted: Apr 21st, 2009  Comments: 7   Views: 1,855   
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May 2, 2008: Shlomo Carlebach

May 2, 2008: Shlomo Carlebach

We remember the Holocaust today with a profile of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a Jewish troubadour in the 1960s and '70s who preached love and peace and whose music has become a staple of religious observances in Jewish synagogues and homes.

Posted: May 2nd, 2008  Comments: 1   Views: 2,452   
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July 13, 2007: Holocaust Forgiveness Advocate Eva Kor

July 13, 2007: Holocaust Forgiveness Advocate Eva Kor

It's been 50 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. As a child, Eva Kor was a prisoner at the camp. Now she returns on a mission to give amnesty to all Nazis who participated directly or indirectly in the murder of her family and millions of others.

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007  Comments: 0   Views: 403   
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