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    Modern Hebrew  Aug 8, 2008
    Two centuries after it was written, Jewish history became one of dispersal and exile, and Hebrew ceased to be widely spoken for the next 1,700 years. Its revival is often hailed as one of the greatest feats of the Zionist enterprise; today Hebrew is the first language of millions of Israelis, a loquacious and literary nation that is said to publish an average of 5,500 books a year. (International Herald Tribune)

    Activist has a gender for peace, and it's all in the talk  Aug 8, 2008
    "Because we are living through the most ignorant time in Jewish history. These people are ignorant of their own history. They don't realise that there was never a Palestinian state here - never a real state between the Babylonian destruction and the reborn state of Israel.". As an author, she limits herself to questions writerly, especially those about her book's heroines, often pious women struggling against religious injunction and custom, who have moved millions of readers around the world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Traveling exhibit at CSCC through Sept. 29  Aug 6, 2008
    These Oak Ridge families later hand-constructed their own synagogue, a feat unique in American Jewish history ... Scholars from across the state of Tennessee provided the research for the exhibit, along with noted authorities on Jewish history from other locations. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)

    Editorial: Drivers pay tab for DRPA's past largesse  Jul 25, 2008
    Then there's the Kimmel Center, the National Constitution Center and the National Museum of American Jewish History. The economic development tab comes to a nifty $375 million. (The Delaware County Times, PA)

    Ingenuity Fest is Cleveland at its coolest  Jul 25, 2008
    In conjunction with their upcoming exhibit on the golden age of comic books, the Maltz Museum of Jewish History will host a design your own superhero emblem station where kids can paint, color and sticker their own breastplate logos showing off their favorite superhero powers. More than 200 projects and programs will take place during Ingenuity Fest, including an opening-day parade, film premires, interactive installations, and public participation in real-time art projects. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online  Jul 18, 2008
    Friday July 18, 2008. The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (Queens Chronicle, NY)

    Editorial: Bridge-toll increases taxing little guy  Jul 13, 2008
    What makes the deal worse, many people feel, is the Delaware River Port Authority has financially supported numerous projects in the Delaware Valley over the years, including Lincoln Financial Field, the Kimmel Center, the National Constitution Center, the New Jersey State Aquarium and the National Museum of American Jewish History near Independence Hall. Most recently, the DRPA provided $10 million to help build a soccer stadium on the Chester waterfront. (The Delaware County Times, PA)

    Marker sought for Spa City's 'gut'  Jul 8, 2008
    "This neighborhood played a big part in Saratoga's social history," said Marie Morrison, who is co-chairwoman, with Amy Godine, of the Saratoga Springs Jewish History Committee. "A marker is long overdue.". (Albany Times Union)

    Spielberg gives grant to museum  Jul 5, 2008
    A foundation created by director Steven Spielberg has given $1m (504,377) to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation, founded in 1994, will help create a five-storey museum building in the city. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Spielberg Group Gives $1M to Pa. Jewish Museum  Jul 5, 2008
    PHILADELPHIA -- A foundation created by Stephen Spielberg is giving $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation will go toward a new, five-story museum building being built in Philadelphia. (Newsmax)

    Take a page from their book  Jul 4, 2008
    THE STORY: Benbassa, a professor of modern Jewish history, and her husband Attias, a professor of rabbinic culture, both at the Sorbonne, hail from varied Sephardic backgrounds. Together, they examine the essential legacy and meaning of the Chumash, which they describe as an obscure, contradictory, sometimes shocking text. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Religion Notes (July 2)  Jul 1, 2008
    Children in grades kindergarten to seven study Jewish history and Torah and celebrate Jewish holidays. They learn both modern Hebrew and prayer Hebrew through song, drama and stories as well as text study. (Newton Tab, MA)

    Report: Judaism faces gender imbalance 'crisis'  Jun 26, 2008
    Some of the imbalance can be blamed on American culture, which places higher values on women's participation in religious and educational activities, and has caused similar struggles in churches across the country, said Jonathan Sarna, American Jewish history professor at Brandeis University. "I don't think we need a fancy Jewish explanation for what's going on," he said. (USA Today -- News)

    Judaism drawing more black Americans  Jun 19, 2008
    Plus, there are more instances of interracial adoption and conversion, said Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University ... The Jewish history of worldwide migration has led to Jews of every ethnicity. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Area native will conduct tours to China  Jun 16, 2008
    Through Lune Tours, the young entrepreneur will plan trips to China from the United States, but with an interesting twist his first trip will focus on the Jewish history of China ... After being asked to write articles for a Rhode Island newspaper, Levinson began to study the Jewish history of China, a history that many people are shocked to discover exists ... The cities in China that have a Jewish history include Kaifeng, Shanghai and Harbin. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)

    Newton temple experiments with program to reinvigorate Hebrew school  Jun 12, 2008
    "The idea is to take some of the pixie dust from the new Prozdor and sprinkle it on the middle-school kids," said Jonathan Sarna, a well-known author and lecturer on Jewish life and a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. The Emanuel middle-schoolers will attend Prozdor on Sundays, selecting a Judaic studies or Hebrew language track and a variety of upbeat electives - such as "Jews, Movies and the American Dream," and "Israeli Top 40." Under a collaborative program called... (Boston Globe)

    Tuesday Night Book Club met, May 27  Jun 7, 2008
    Based on happiness in his early life and Jewish history. She also makes him half of a mutual admiration relationship between and a young kinswoman named Avigail. (Clanton Advertiser, AL)

    Report: Palestinian Textbooks Portray Jews in Bad Light  Jun 5, 2008
    The textbooks issued under Abbas' rule also include a discussion of Jewish history in the region, the report said. However, in 2006, the militant Islamic Hamas won an election and issued a 12th grade textbook that dramatically reversed those steps, the report said. (Fox News)

    San Francisco's Jewish moment  Jun 2, 2008
    In commissioning Libeskind, the museum's leadership, and especially director Connie Wolf, wanted a provocative building, one that could further their goal of transcending the customary roles of Jewish-oriented museums: documenting the Jewish history of a region; exhibiting Jewish ceremonial objects; memorializing the Holocaust. Because the museum has no permanent collection, its displays will be constantly in flux. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Service to focus on ant-semitism  May 25, 2008
    During his 32 years of organizational work in the Greater Boston area, Dr. Lowenthal has been involved in interfaith and intergroup activities, written extensively about human rights issues for the local press, appeared often on radio and TV, hosted a local radio interview program, and taught courses on Jewish history, film, literature, and humor. Dr. Lowenthal frequently lectures on contemporary Israel, the future of the American Jewish community, and the challenges of anti-Semitism, in... (Lexington Minuteman, MA)

    Indiana Jones: Man of adventure  May 22, 2008
    Your Connection to the. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    Middle East Israels Mission  May 17, 2008
    By contrast, "Jerusalem" regards "Tel Aviv s" drive for "normalcy" as a shallow affair, one that is almost criminally indifferent to Jewish memory and the lessons of Jewish history. The Israel of "Jerusalem" is one of yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of "the Arabs," and an unyielding distrust of "Gentiles" and their "international community." Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since. (WELT ONLINE)

    Israel in 60 Years  May 13, 2008
    When it comes to Jewish history, it is dangerous to indulge in prophecy ... Only three years after the saddest and cruelest chapter in Jewish history, a sovereign Jewish State was proclaimed: Was it predictable. (Time.com)

    Chroniclers of pain  May 10, 2008
    "If Israel arose on the disaster of the Palestinians," stated MK Zevulum Orlev of the National Religious Party, "it can't be legitimate . . . the Jewish right to Israel is inherent and part of Jewish history, a legacy of our nakba 2,000 years ago." In fact, to acknowledge the nakba is not to de-legitimise Israel, but it does require of the nation a different form of accountability for its own past ... As the narrator lowers his eyes in the face of an Arab woman - "stern, self-controlled, austere... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Olmert 'never took a bribe,' he says  May 9, 2008
    Executives connected to leading Jewish organizations in New York that have listed Talansky as a major donor or put him on their boards including Yeshiva University's rabbinical seminary and the Center for Jewish History say he has not always carried out his pledges. At least two of the lawsuits involving Talansky contain allegations that he or people he enlisted made threats in the course of collecting debts or resolving business conflicts. (International Herald Tribune)

    To Celebrate 60th, Israel Festival to Rock Into Evening  May 8, 2008
    It will be an Israel Festival unlike others in recent years as Jews across Los Angeles come together in celebration of perhaps the single most important milestone in modern Jewish history. Other officials participating in the Festivities include Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; City Councilmembers Jack Weiss, Dennis Zine and Wendy Greuel; Sheriff Lee Baca, Congressman Brad Sherman; and Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles Jacob Dayan. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Jews: Don't Boycott The Olympics!  May 5, 2008
    The Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai is symbolic in many ways of the Jewish history in China ... American Jewish rabbis and leaders would be well advised to be better students of Jewish history in China before criticizing the country. (Forbes)

    RELIGIOUS EVENTS  May 2, 2008
    Study Torah, Hebrew, Jewish history and traditions and learn about Israeli music, culture and food, arts and crafts and prayers, from a faculty of talented and dedicated Jewish educators. To request a registration form call the synagogue office at 978-263-3061. (Bolton Common, MA)

    Bumpy road to Zion: Not your fathers religious fervor  May 2, 2008
    I will never fathom how someone jumps from loving Jewish history to believing that the Judean foothills are his birthright, from liking the poems of Yehuda Halevi to making aliyah. I once explained how I felt to a rabbi who I thought would understand. (Yale Herald, CT)

    Religion Calendar  Apr 19, 2008
    An exploration of Jewish history and the search for meaning. RSVP necessary. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)

    Passover book passes on Jewish history  Apr 19, 2008
    Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan : The Herald-Sun Apr 19, 2008. (Herald Sun)

    Religion notes  Apr 18, 2008
    D from Harvard University, where he studied medieval Jewish history, specifically the history of Jewish mysticism. Sendor received his ordination at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. (Brookline TAB, MA)

    Synagogue marks golden jubilee  Apr 17, 2008
    "Remembering the past 50 years and celebrating our place in Jewish history. "Jewish life goes back 4,000 years and we're a chapter of that," Grife added. "We are one square of the fabric of the big Jewish quilt. " Groundbreaking ceremonies at the temple's site on Paper Mill Road, Erdenheim, took place in 1958. An addition was built in 1961, and finally, a $1.2 million renovation in 1997 brought the building to its current state. B'nai Jeshurun, originally located in Mount Airy, merged with Beth... (Springfield Sun, PA)

    Deal for Holy Land artefacts  Apr 17, 2008
    If you declare all of Jewish history a myth or fraud, peace is impossible. Ziad speaks for many in the Palestinian community, and illustrates what many fail to realize. (Nature News Service)

    Savor the story  Apr 17, 2008
    Few events in Jewish history are more important than those for which Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. There is an added wrinkle this year because the holiday begins at the close of the Sabbath, a day of rest for observant Jews. (The Daily Reflector)

    Bible Park USA developers assemble theologians for advice on attractions  Apr 16, 2008
    Amy-Jill Levine, professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Byron McCane, professor of Religion at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.; Carol Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Eric Meyers, professor of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology of the ancient Near East, and Jewish History of the Greco-Roman period at Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Carolyn Osiek, professor of New Testament Studies at Brite Divinity School at Texas... (Nashville Business Journal, TN)

    An emigre from the former Soviet Union driven to succeed  Apr 15, 2008
    It was an experience common to most of the Jews who fled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s, according to Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. More than 1 million Jews migrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, and other countries via Austria and Italy where they waited in transfer camps for months in a kind of bureaucratic purgatory until their destinations were established and documents processed. (Boston Globe)

    Skillfully preserving Jewish ritual  Apr 14, 2008
    The training program at Temple Shalom in Newton focused on Jewish history as well as the sociological issues facing contemporary Reform Jewish families. Over three 12-hour days of seminars organized by the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism, a California-based national training program for mohels, a panel of interfaith couples discussed how foreign and stressful the idea of home circumcision was for their non-Jewish relatives and Levenson offered some from-the-trenches tips on how to... (Boston Globe)

    The Mirror of History  Apr 14, 2008
    (Jewish history, meanwhile, seems to end with Josephus. You don't have to worship at the shrine of political correctness to look aghast at this shrinking of the "European cultural tradition" to stories of white men told by the same. (Slate)

    Everything is Illuminated  Apr 2, 2008
    The Strange Mixture of the Past and the Present. Liev Schreiber directs the story of an American Jew on a journey to understand how his grandfather escaped the Holocaust. (Suite101.com)

    Catch defiler of Ohav Zedek  Apr 1, 2008
    This was not a mere prank. This was an act of hatred and intimidation. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)

    Jewishfilm.2008 is coming to Brandeis  Mar 23, 2008
    Tal spent three years piecing together home movies and old radio recordings from kibbutzim archives to revisit that part of Jewish history and culture, resulting in the documentary "Children of the Sun." Shown in a preview with Tal present earlier this month, the film returns April 12 as part of The National Center for Jewish Film's 11th annual film festival, Jewishfilm. 2008. (Boston Globe)

    Smart Traveler  Mar 22, 2008
    Vacationers Splurge on Private Tours (SmartMoney Magazine) at SmartMoney. Sign up now for FREESmartMoney. (SmartMoney)

    Human rights proponents will explore prevention, remedies for genocide  Mar 21, 2008
    Panelists for this session will be Hasia Diner, the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg professor of American Jewish history at New York University; Gerald Gahima, a judge on the Bosnia War Crimes Panel and former vice president of the Supreme Court of Rwanda; Chuck Meyers, senior program associate of Facing History and Ourselves; and Kathleen Young, professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. Confronting Darfur, the third panel, will address the conflict in the Darfur region of the... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)

    Living for the 'gasp'  Mar 9, 2008
    The project, Sherman explained in a recent telephone interview, began as something of a millennium project, an attempt to sum up 100 years of Jewish history. "Originally I had planned it as a multicharacter play, but I became drawn to this one woman. And the other characters fell away.". (Globe and Mail)

    Where is the lamb?  Feb 25, 2008
    This tremendous event in Jewish history is still celebrated today in the Feast of the Passover. Under the law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, the Jews were instructed that when one sinned he was to bring an animal (a lamb) to the altar, place his hands on the animal s head while confessing his sin (thereby transferring the guilt to the sacrifice), and then slay the lamb. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)

    My history, our history (2/4)  Feb 5, 2008
    And as MSMS teacher Chuck Yarborough so eloquently put it, as he led us on a trip through history down Catfish Alley, along Martin Luther Drive South and on to Missionary Union Baptist Church and down Second Avenue North where the Penny-Savings Bank once stood I don't like to think of history as white history or African-American history or Jewish history. It's our history. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)

    SOUL SURVIVORS  Jan 13, 2008
    January 13, 2008 -- The survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the marvels of modern Jewish history. In People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks uses fiction to re-imagine the amazing history of this illuminated 14th century Hebrew text, which survived the political and religious wars and upheavals that ravaged Europe and the Near East from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Unfortunately, the novel doesn't live up to its inspiration. Brooks examines this strange, eventful history... (New York Post -- Opinions)

    Exploring Jewish-America  Jan 5, 2008
    " Even when it falters, "The Jewish Americans" remains both informative and engaging. Most viewers, no matter how well acquainted they are with American Jewish history, are likely to learn things. You may already know about Hank Greenberg, the slugger for the Detroit Tigers in the 1930s, or Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America (1945). But did you also know that it was a couple of Jewish kids in Cleveland who invented "Superman. " One of their amusingly twerpy voices is heard in the show.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Jewish series mirrors American immigrant story  Jan 4, 2008
    His favorite segment in the whole series is part of Cleveland s Jewish history: the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created the Superman character. Two young guys, frustrated in their hopes and dreams, were reflecting on their own lives. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Last matzo factory on New York's Lower East Side moving out  Dec 29, 2007
    But in a sign of the times, the building will serve a dual purpose as an American Jewish history museum and a functioning synagogue. "After the 1980s, you got this continual increase of property values and rents and it just never stopped or went down again," said Clayton Patterson, a local preservationist. (Boston Globe)

    More of this story  Dec 28, 2007
    Chronicling 350 years of Jewish history in America, deciding what to omit and what to include, is an ambitious undertaking. Jewish Americans seeks to illuminate the American story through comprehensive treatment of one immigrant group, whose impact on life here far outweighs its tiny size. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Experience an hour of medieval wonder in Germany  Dec 12, 2007
    The town is also known for its Jewish history, with Judaica in the Imperial City Museum; and Judengasse (Jews' Lane), a street billed as Germany's only intact ghetto from the Middle Ages. Perched high above the Tauber River, Rothenburg, offers stunning views, especially for those who climb atop its 20-foot-high covered wall to walk the circumference of the town, officially known as Rothenburg ob der Tauber. (MSNBC -- Travel)

    Art & architecture offerings for the holidays  Dec 12, 2007
    So "Monuments" is a welcome backward look at 38 commemorative sites, from the Alamo, Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument to more obscure ones such as North Side-based artist Diane Samuels' "Luminous Manuscript" monument to Jewish history at New York's Center for Jewish History. The introductory essay, which explores the meaning and purpose of memorials and monuments, is followed by one tracing their evolution from ancient pyramids and obelisks to the spontaneous and temporary memorials of... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Journeying to faith: Adults prepare for bar, bat mitzvah ceremony Saturday  Dec 7, 2007
    DuCloux said she worked in retail management for years and never found the time for the weekly lessons and study of Jewish history, liturgy, philosophy, rabbinic literature and theology required for her own bat mitzvah. "It wasn't that important to me at the time," she said. (North County Times)

    Synagogue celebrates restoration  Dec 4, 2007
    While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. The Museum at Eldridge Street will host programs about vaudeville music, Yiddish literature, family history research and other topics. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    Historic NYC Synagogue Is Reborn  Dec 3, 2007
    While that lower floor will continue to function as an Orthodox synagogue, the building will now serve as a nonsectarian museum dedicated to American Jewish history and the history of the Lower East Side. Barry Yood, a retired health administrator whose great-grandfather served as Eldridge Street's rabbi, said he was looking forward to being a docent at the new museum. (CBS News -- US)

    U.S. Jewish population isn't declining  Dec 1, 2007
    Jewish summer camps, schools, charities and Web sites form a network of institutions that has no equal in all of Jewish history. The myth of the disappearing Jew can be traced in large measure to a single, well-publicized study recording 5. (Scripps Howard News Wire)

    Karkar: Partition of Palestine  Nov 30, 2007
    8] Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish religion: The weight of 3000 years, Pluto Press, 1 December 1994. 9] 415. (Zmag.org)

    Editor's mailbag: Let’s help delivery people  Nov 28, 2007
    - - This comes AFTER 2 years of studying Hebrew, Jewish history, scriptures, etc. - - Isaiah also mentions that one MUST observe Sabbath. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    * Police, 'anti-fascists' block planned neo-Nazi march  Nov 12, 2007
    "We came here to show our support for the Czech Jewish community, why we're against all these anti-Semites and neo-Nazis. They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we felt we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism." ... "They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we felt we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism," Silverman said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Neo-Nazis Clash With Prague Protesters  Nov 11, 2007
    "They're picking a very holy day, a very sad day in Jewish history and we fell we need to support the Czech community against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism.". MMVII The Associated Press. (CBS News)

    Young blades for hire  Nov 3, 2007
    Christopher Tayler sets off in pursuit of Michael Chabon's tale of 10th-century Jewish adventurers, Gentlemen of the Road. Saturday November 3, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol  Oct 31, 2007
    Samuel's "Luminous Manuscript," permanently installed in 2004 at the Center for Jewish History, New York, is among 38 sites and/or commemorations in the book. Others include the Statue of Liberty, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Alamo, and 9/11 temporary memorials. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes  Oct 25, 2007
    Mr. Kitaj often made wild use of collage, fragmentary design, and bright colors, along with a thematic concern with modern Jewish history, particularly the Holocaust. His art highlighted historical and social commentary and obscure literary references. (Boston Globe)

    Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France  Oct 25, 2007
    Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France - International Herald Tribune ... Claude Miller's 'Un Secret': A Jewish history lost and found in France. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Professor discusses anti-Semitism  Oct 21, 2007
    Paula Hyman, a professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and the president of the American Academy of Jewish Research, lectured in "Anti-Semitism, Gender and Jewish Identity in Europe" at Drayton Hall. The lecture, part of the Solomon Tenenbaum Lectureship in Jewish Studies, focused on the pervasiveness of European stereotypes of the Jewish male and female in the 1890's and 1900's. (Gamecock Online, SC)

    Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What?  Oct 16, 2007
    I say this as a committed Jew, a religious Jew, a Jewish writer and lecturer, a past college instructor in Jewish history, co-author of a widely read book on anti-Semitism, recipient of the American Jewish Press Association's Prize for Excellence in Jewish Commentary, instructor in Torah at the American Jewish University, and a man who has fought anti-Semitism all his life ... I say this as a committed Jew, a religious Jew, a Jewish writer and lecturer, a past college instructor in Jewish... (Townhall.com)

    Israel: Archeology and the Propaganda War of Lies  Oct 16, 2007
    Tissue of Lies: Archeology and the Propaganda War Against Israel - HUMAN EVENTS. In one of those ironies of questionable scholarship, just as a battle over a Barnard scholar s book about Israeli archeology had inflamed her application for tenure, heavy equipment was tearing away at the ancient crown of Jerusalem s 36-acre Temple Mount, Judaism s holiest site. (Human Events Online)

    Around Town Sept. 26 -- Neighbors take care of trash employees  Oct 2, 2007
    Gabrielle is one of 16 interns this semester who will learn how to teach 20th-century Jewish history and the Holocaust to young people. The daughter of Lorie and the late David DiLorenzo, Gabrielle is studying liberal arts with concentrations in anthropology, psychology and history at Hofstra University. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)

    UPDATED: Governor Rendell's Public Schedule, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2007  Sep 29, 2007
    Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is Governor Rendell's public schedule, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2007: Sept. 29, 2007 No public schedule Sept. 30, 2007 11:00 a.m. -- Governor Rendell to attend National Museum of American Jewish History groundbreaking ceremony and reception Independence Visitors Center, 2nd floor 6th and Market Streets Philadelphia 12:00 p.m. -- Governor Rendell to attend Puerto Rican Day Parade Parade Starts 21st and the Parkway Philadelphia October 1, 2007 No public... (PR Newswire)

    The books that changed our lives  Sep 26, 2007
    The book, Brothers, by the late Bernice Rubens, was a fictional trawl through Jewish history, beginning with the build up to the pogroms in the late 1800s. It followed the fate of two brothers named Bindel, and their descendants, in order to question how certain groups of people become oppressed. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    Buch: Israel's Ethnic Cleansing  Sep 25, 2007
    Something like that already happened in the Jewish history, some 1940 years ago - see the "The Jewish War", by Josephus Flavius. And just like in those days, most of Israeli public does not realize, that they are being dragged to disaster by their own leaders. (Zmag.org)

    Judith Zucker, 73; shared knowledge of Jewish history  Sep 13, 2007
    Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. In 1944, when she was 10 years old, Judith Clara (Balassa) Zucker was among a group of 50 people, led by her father, who escaped the Nazi threat in their Slovak town by hiding in the Tatra Mountains. (Boston Globe)

    Holocaust Survivor Will Recall Treblinka Escape in Kent Talk  Sep 7, 2007
    Three hundred years of Jewish history in the town had ended. Mr. Weinstein, his brother, Israel, and his mother were among those rounded up in the first wave of deportation. (Litchfield County Times, CT)

    Barcelona - Capital of Catalonia  Sep 4, 2007
    Sandy beaches, fine food, La Rambla, Gothic Quarter, Roman walls, Jewish History and the architecture of Antonio Gaudi i Cornet - Barcelona offers all this and more. At the heart of Barcelona is Pla;a de Catalunya and most of Barcelona's main attractions are located within a twenty minute walk or a short ride by bus or subway. (Suite101.com)

    For longtime ADL leader, a rare reversal of course  Aug 22, 2007
    His style has also molded the ADL. Foxman's approach was to use the kind of discipline more often seen in the military than in a nonprofit organization, said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University. But Foxman could not maintain his hold on the ADL's position as pressure mounted. (Boston Globe)

    Museum pursues state's vanishing Jewish history  Aug 16, 2007
    Preserving Museum pursues Georgia's vanishing Jewish history. By MARK DAVIS / mrdavis@ajc. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    With passion for Israel, he labors to unify God's chosen people  Aug 15, 2007
    Throughout its existence, the Conference has played a key role in American and world Jewish history ... For him it summarized the polarity of Jewish history ... Hoenlein says that he is blessed to have a job that allows him to work for the things he cares most about and to help shape Jewish history in some measure. (WorldNetDaily)

    Himmler's neice confronts nation's conscience in family history  Aug 15, 2007
    "Every time he is asking more and I try to explain a little bit more, but you can't explain the whole story at once. He knows about Jewish history ... he knows about the mass murder already but he does not know the connection to my family.". Other coverage. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)

    Gary Sredzienski is not just the polka guy  Aug 14, 2007
    A recent show focused on Jewish history. There's an annual one on yodeling. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Chris Schwarz, 59; photographer who honored Polish Jewry  Aug 12, 2007
    When he first arrived in Krakow from England in the early 1990s and wandered through Kazimierz, the city's Jewish quarter since medieval times, Mr. Schwarz "felt that the streets were saturated with centuries of Jewish history," he said in the BBC interview ... In keeping with a movement among Poles to revive the nation's Jewish cultural heritage, the museum also offers seminars on Jewish history, classes in Yiddish and Hebrew, and klezmer music concerts. (Boston Globe)

    Hebron settlers evicted  Aug 9, 2007
    Noam Arnon, a spokesperson for the Hebron settlers, called yesterday's evacuation a "crime against justice and against Jewish history.". When the mayhem was over, other police stripped the apartments, putting furniture on moving vans and then dismantling walls, windows and doors to try to prevent a reoccupation. (Toronto Star)

    Squatters Refuse to Leave Hebron  Aug 7, 2007
    "This is a crime against justice and against Jewish history," said Noam Arnon, a spokesman for the Hebron settlers. "I am sure we will return. Hebron has a long history and we will return.". (Fox News)

    Jewish History Simplified  Aug 3, 2007
    He gives a good introduction to Jewish history and the progression of Jewish thought within Jewish society making every theory presented very clear and logical. (Suite101.com)

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