Ben M. Freeman Wants Jews To Be Proud of Their Heritage – jewishboston.com
admin | June 8, 2022
The first thing Ben M. Freeman shares with me is that he is a proud gay man
Our daughter had a year left to live. We had to do something wonderful with the time she had left. – The Boston Globe
admin | June 8, 2022
Havi was beautiful. Perfect, actually, according to our midwife and nurse in the delivery room of Brigham and Womens Hospital, where she was born at 12:27 p.m
An MRI detected breast cancer in this Haddonfield woman. Should you consider having one? – The Philadelphia Inquirer
admin | June 8, 2022
With a history of breast cancer in her family, Andrea Cronin has been careful to get annual mammograms since she was in her early 30s. Like a lot of women, though, she skipped the test in 2020 due to the pandemic.
About Us – A world that remembers the Holocaust | IHRA
admin | June 8, 2022
The future we are shaping now, is the past that we will share tomorrow.
Turning on the Light – UofSC News & Events – SC.edu
admin | June 8, 2022
When Mary McElveen was in seventh grade, a boy in her French class told her she shouldnt exist. Because she is Jewish. Because of the Holocaust.
Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmothers Holocaust Story – The New York Times
admin | June 8, 2022
This was a lockdown project, Dov Forman said modestly in a video interview from the London home where he interviewed Lily Ebert, his 98-year-old great-grandmother, for several hours a day at the peak of the pandemic. Those conversations, and her detailed, painful, heartbreaking and, later, meticulously fact-checked memories of surviving the Holocaust, are the basis of Lilys Promise, which debuted at No. 2 on the paperback nonfiction list.
Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisian island stirs calls for criminalizing normalization with Israel – Al-Monitor
admin | June 6, 2022
TUNIS, Tunisia The annual Jewish pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has rekindled the popular and political debate over the issuance in Tunisia of a law criminalizing normalization with Israel. The Palestinian cause is an issue that the majority of Tunisians support, even if this backing is often superficial. In a May 26statement,the moderate Islamist Ennahda movement denounced what they claimed was the exploitation of the pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue to officialize forms of normalization with Israel.
Editorial: Does the common good mean anything anymore? – The Suffolk Times – Suffolk Times
admin | June 6, 2022
Our May 19 editorial was written after the massacre of Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store. This is how that editorial ended: One day someone will write a book titled Bury My Heart at Newtown (26 dead); or Bury My Heart at Charleston (nine Black men and women murdered in their church); or Bury My Heart at El Paso (22 dead in a Walmart); or Bury My Heart at Pittsburgh (11 murdered in a synagogue).
We’ve Been Here Before | Miami’s Community News – Miami’s Community Newspapers
admin | June 6, 2022
On June 20, we celebrate World Refugee Day. My grandparents came to the United States as refugees.
‘A lot of confusion, a lot of sadness:’ The slow steps of moving forward after a devastating shooting – Buffalo News
admin | June 6, 2022
A DJ clicked play on a Lionel Richie song, and the percussive early bars of All Night Long began wafting through the air as people gathered in line to pick up that evenings meal. It was a sunlit weekday afternoon along Jefferson Avenue on Buffalos East Side, where several days earlier, 10 people were shot to death and three wounded at a Tops Markets store. The suspect, a white supremacist, claimed in a hate-filled screed to be targeting Black people.
