admin | February 9, 2022
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor riding an electric wheelchair was struck by a motorist and killed on his way to synagogue in Brooklyn. Jack Mikulincer was headed to the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center when a BMW SUV plowed into him late Saturday afternoon, the New York Daily News reported. Mikulincers daughter Aviva told the Daily News that the Orthodox synagogue had been a refuge for him.
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admin | February 9, 2022
Why did anyone think time and effort should be spent on an investigation to find out who betrayed Anne Frank?
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admin | February 9, 2022
At the end of December last year, Swiss painter Miriam Cahn made headlines by announcing that she intended to withdraw her work from Kunsthaus Zrich, Switzerlands largest art museum.
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admin | February 7, 2022
Decades ago, when the performer Caryn Johnson decided her name wasnt interesting enough and dubbed herself Whoopi Goldberg instead, it wasnt because Goldberg signified whiteness. Through the years, shes offered many weird and contradictory explanations for her change in moniker, but it might have seemed at the time that a black person sporting the surname Goldberg would be especially eye-catching and noteworthy (especially in conjunction with that wild first name) because it would represent the proud ownership of her outsider status.
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admin | February 7, 2022
The well of nave young Americans being schooled in life, love, politics and croissants by effortlessly worldly French people is in no danger of running dry. The latest addition to this cohort is 20-year-old Molly, a New Yorker who has just met her distant cousins in Paris
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admin | February 7, 2022
The Inheritance of Orqudea Divina by Zoraida Crdova The magic of Four Rivers had faded before Orqudea Divina moved in. The matriarch has never left the home, holding tight to secrets her family hopes will be revealed after she invites them to her funeral. But they're left with more questions as she is transformed, her gifts manifesting for the family in different ways in the 7 years following
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admin | February 7, 2022
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the capture, forcible transport and sale of native Africans to Europeans for lifelong bondage in the Americas. Lasting from the 16th to 19th centuries, it is responsible, more than any other project or phenomenon in the history of the modern world, for the creation of the African diasporathe dispersal of Black people outside their places of origin on the continent of Africa.
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admin | February 7, 2022
When enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas, their experiences were very different across different parts of the region. Their musical, religious and cultural traditions were frequently suppressed, and always adapted and mixed with those of other cultures
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admin | February 7, 2022
Award-winning author Gish Jens latest collection opens with a Chinese saying: A long journey begins with a step.
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admin | February 7, 2022
Between 2017 and 2020, Nigeria received total of $87.37billion in remittances from its citizens living in the diaspora, latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the World Bank shows. New Telegraphs analysis of the 2020 Demographic Statistics Bulletin released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at the weekend, as well as the Migration and Development Brief 35 report published by the World Bank in November, indicates that Nigeria received $70.16billion and $17.21billion in remittances from 2017-2019 and in 2020 respectively. Infact, theWorldBankinits report in November projected that Nigeria would receive $17.6billion in remittances in 2021.
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