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UConn continues to expand it pop-up offerings. (Chris Dehnel/Patch ) STORRS, CT Two University of Connecticut has announced two pop-up courses on anti-semitism and Islamophobia.
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(Scott Olson/Getty Images) A public school district in Berkeley, California, was hit with a federal complaint on Wednesday alleging it has failed to stem an escalating series of anti-Semitic incidents that include hallway chants of "kill the Jews" and anti-Semitic teacher rants in support of the Hamas terror group. The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) "knowingly allowed its K-12 campuses to become viciously hostile environments for Jewish and Israeli students," according to a copy of the complaint, filed with the Education Departments Office of Civil Rights and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Parents who have signed onto the complaint say anti-Semitic incidents in the schools have "positively surged" since Hamas conducted its unprecedented Oct.
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Erzsebet Barsony and her son, Ervin Fenyes, had been packed in a cattle car for three days en route to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. It was July 12, 1944, and very hot.
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) As a member of the Israeli military who frequently speaks on Israels behalf, Ran Bar-Yoshafat is used to being heckled by anti-Israel protesters, especially on college campuses. But he says what happened to him at the University of California, Berkeley this week where a planned appearance was canceled because of a protest that turned violent was on a different level.
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Kol Israel Foundation will host a panel discussion about Talking to Children About the Holocaust and Modern-Day Antisemitism at 7 p.m. March 14 at Bnai Jeshurun Congregation at 27501 Fairmount Blvd. in Pepper Pike.
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The Archive of the House of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus signs an agreement with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to digitize archival material related to the Holocaust. By Fr. Pawe Rytel-Andrianik On 27 February, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Fondazione Polanco - Archives of the Society of Jesus ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu) signed a cooperation agreement to share and digitize archival materials related to the Holocaust from the Jesuit archives dating from the period before, during and after World War II.
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For more than a decade, filmmaker Julia Mintz meticulously crafted her award-winning documentary Four Winters to challenge existing myths surrounding Jewish survival during World War II, offering a new and differing portrayal of courage. Now, she is bringing her film to St.
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In 1977, a year before he killed himself, the Austrian writer Jean Amry came across press reports of systematic torture against Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons. Arrested in Belgium in 1943 while distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets, Amry himself had been brutally tortured by the Gestapo, and then deported to Auschwitz. He managed to survive, but could never look at his torments as things of the past.
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Todays signing ceremony of the MOU between the USC Shoah Foundation and the National Library of Israel. Left: Dr
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Editor's note:Arizona State University alumni are making a difference in every corner and community of the world, positively changing the lives of those they encounter. ASU News traveled around the U.S.
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