admin | March 8, 2022
In the twenty-first century a democratic European country is being invaded by a totalitarian aggressor and the world watches and does not intervene militarily. History does indeed repeat itself. It is eerily reminiscent of how the world stood by in silence in the twentieth century as another totalitarian dictator gobbled up Czechoslovakia and Austria.
admin | March 8, 2022
Rob Eshman, The ForwardMarch 5, 2022 This story was originally published on Feb. 4 by the Forward.
admin | March 8, 2022
Who knew that the actor with the scarred face, who would define the onscreen tough guy stereotype of Italian mobsters was just a Jewish guy with a Shanya Punim. Born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, Paul Muni began acting in Chicago alongside his parents in the Yiddish theater. He had range from the beginning.
admin | March 8, 2022
Misha Breyburg, a Ukrainian American Jew born in Odessa, wants everyone to know where he stands on the invasion of Ukraine. So on Saturday, the Medithrive cannabis dispensary, where Breyburg is the CEO, got a face-lift: The front of the building in San Franciscos Mission District was painted the bright blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.
admin | March 8, 2022
As Ukraine enters its ninth day of war with Russia, more than 1 million refugees have now fled into neighboring countries, following an invasion that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed was meant to denazify the country. On March 1, a Russian missile struck an important Holocaust memorial Babyn Yar, the memorial site to the Nazi massacre of more than 100,000 people, including 33,771 Jews over two days in 1941
admin | March 8, 2022
From the early waves of immigration from Eastern Europe, to the post World War I pogroms, to new efforts to sustain communal life in Ukraine, and now to the Russian invasion, Ukraine has frequently been a topic in this publication. Here are a few articles from the last 127 years that show some of the ways Ukraines history has been entwined with the lives of Bay Area Jews.
admin | March 8, 2022
Mr. Goldsmith was a wealthy man. One of his gentile business acquaintances, Mr
admin | February 28, 2022
Jared Armstrongs mother, Lou Ellen Butler, and his father, Antonio Armstrong, hold him as a baby during a simcha event celebrating his birth. (Courtesy of Jared Armstrong) According to both him and his rabbi, Jared Armstrong is Jewish.
admin | February 28, 2022
For those inclined to see history as depressingly cyclical, the war in Ukraine offers fairly strong evidence.
admin | February 28, 2022
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