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They were forced to sell their beloved synagogue. 7 decades later, they finally have a chance to buy it back – Forward

| September 8, 2022

Members of the Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., are trying to purchase Temple Montefiore, the first synagogue in the New Mexico Territory, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Photo by Jim Weber/The New Mexican By Sarah NachimsonSeptember 07, 2022 The Las Vegas, New Mexico, Jewish community is determined to buy back its synagogue.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Bombing of Auschwitz – Jewish Journal

| September 8, 2022

The Roosevelt administrations refusal to strike Auschwitz was among the issues raised in Wolf Blitzers recent CNN special about the Holocaust, and will be discussed in Ken Burnss upcoming documentary film on Americas response to the Holocaust. During the spring and summer of 1944, as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being deported to Auschwitz, at least thirty officials of Jewish organizations or institutions urged the Roosevelt administration to carry out air strikes on the railways and bridges over which the deportations were taking place, or to undertake precision strikes on the gas chambers and crematoria themselves.

Do these stats about 21st-century Jewish orgs sound right to you? – eJewish Philanthropy

| September 8, 2022

No? Thats because they arent right.

The greatest Jewish Hollywood character youve never heard of – Forward

| September 8, 2022

Maurice Duke was born Maurice Duschinsky in 1910 in Coney Island. Courtesy of Michael Barrie By Michael BarrieSeptember 07, 2022 You hear the name Duke in Hollywood and you picture a mountain of a man in a weathered Stetson firing his Colt from a speedy horse.

‘Four Winters’ Reveals Jewish Womens Armed Resistance to Nazis During World War II – Ms. Magazine

| September 8, 2022

In the stunning new documentary Four Winters, award-winning filmmaker Julia Mintz shatters myths of Jewish passivity during World War II, highlighting stories of Jews who escaped to the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus and banded together in partisan brigades to fight back against Nazis and their collaborators. Fleeing from cities and towns, some jumping from trains headed to concentration camps, over 25,000 Jewish partisans, many just teenagers, courageously fought back against the Nazi attacks, all while hiding for four years deep in the forests. All I owned was my camera, leopard coat, rifle and a grenade in case Im captured the pillow was the rifle, the walls were the trees and the sky was the roof, said partisan Faye Schulman.

Federation invites the community to Town Halls with new Houston Jewish Security Director – Jewish Herald-Voice

| September 8, 2022

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston CEO Renee Wizig-Barrios believes Houstons Jewish community is at a pivotal point when it comes to security. We feel it is impossible to have a fully thriving Jewish community if people feel unsafe, Wizig-Barrios told the JHV

Gesher, the J and Federation Partner on Jewish Agency Career Expo Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News

| September 8, 2022

Gesher Human Services, The J and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit are working together to hold a community-wide Jewish agency career expo to help Jewish communal agencies connect with more potential candidates and increase hiring opportunities. Around 15 Jewish agencies are expected to have booths at the career expo where they can meet, screen and interview candidates. Candidates will have the opportunity to receive free professional headshots and resume support.

Leaning Into the Difficulty – Jewish Exponent

| September 8, 2022

Rabbi Jason Bonder By Rabbi Jason Bonder Parshat Ki Teitzei Every Rosh Hashanah, we read the Biblical story called The Binding of Isaac. In that story, Abraham ties up his son, Isaac, lifts a dagger above him and is seemingly ready to end Isaacs life

Cleveland Cop Who Praised Hitler Should Be Punished, US Jewish Groups Say – Algemeiner

| September 8, 2022

US Jewish groups are seeking an apology and sanctions following news that a Cleveland cop who was revealed to have made past antisemitic comments will keep his job. Last week, Cleveland officials announced that police officer Ismail Quran, a former Officer of the Year, cannot be fired for saying Let me salute to Hitler the great and Scumbag Yahoodi on Twitter. Explaining the decision, Mayor Justin Bibb and Chief of Police Wayne Drummond said the actions took place years before he was hired.

The joys of catching a baseball at the Giants’ Jewish heritage night J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| September 8, 2022

Theres always been something special for me about Giants games. As a kid growing up in San Francisco, I learned the ins and outs of the sport from my dad, the biggest baseball fan there ever was.


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