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All Posts Tagged With: "Holocaust"

Ten Years Later: Rabbi Joseph Potasnik

“We think of 9/11 every day,” says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights. “All you do when it comes to the anniversary, you try to look back and say have I made a difference?”

Sep 7th, 2011 | 2 comments

June 3, 2011: Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

During World War II, conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish musicians in performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp and said, "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them."

Jun 3rd, 2011 | 8 comments

April 29, 2011: Holocaust Remembrance

“In that courtroom in Jerusalem 50 years ago, people heard the voices of those victims in a way that they hadn’t heard them before,” says Deborah Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University and the author of “The Eichmann Trial.”

Apr 29th, 2011 | 1 comment

Baltimore Students Learn Lessons of the Shoah

A program of study, dialogue, and commemoration encourages Jewish and Christian high school students to understand each other's faith.

Mar 8th, 2011 | 0 comments

January 29, 2010: Out of Tragedy, Questions about God

At times of cataclysm, catastrophe, and natural disaster, people ask many questions about God and his purposes.

Jan 29th, 2010 | 5 comments

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.

Jun 19th, 2009 | 3 comments

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

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

Jun 12th, 2009 | 2 comments

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.

May 29th, 2009 | 3 comments

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."

Apr 24th, 2009 | 12 comments

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.

Apr 21st, 2009 | 8 comments
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