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Holocaust

A collection of 18 issues

Why We All Need To Be Educated About Holocaust

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMANHATTAN – It was a packed room yesterday on the 16th floor of 250 Broadway when the Committee on Civil and Human Rights unanimously voted for a bill to officially recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day in NYC on January 27 and declare the week after as Holocaust Education Week.

Kingsborough President Defends College Against Accusations Of Anti-Semitism

Kingsborough President Farley Herzek.(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Kingsborough Community College President Farley Herzek waded into the discussion about anti-Semitic behavior on CUNY campuses [/hundreds-gather-at-holocaust-memorial-to-rally-against-anti-semitic-hate-crimes/] while speaking Sunday at an event memorializing victims of the Holocaust. Herzek, the son of a Holocaust survivor, pushed back against accusations of anti-Semitism

Shorefront JCC Celebrates Expanded Holocaust Survivor Services

Community leaders, including City Councilmen Chaim Deutsch and Rafael Espinal, cut the ribbon to celebrate the Shorefront JCC’s expanded Holocaust Survivor Social Services Program. (Photo provided by the Shorefront JCC)Thanks to support from the City Council, the Shorefront Jewish Community Council [http://www.shorefrontjcc.org/] has expanded its

Neighbors Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day With Two Local Events

A neighbor holds a photo of a victims at the Holocaust Remembance Event organized by the Stop Anti-Semitism Foundation.Yom HaShoah [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah], or Holocaust Remembrance Day, passed last week and was observed on Sunday with two local events remembering the victims of the Nazi

Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz Invites Students In His District To Enter 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest

Click to enlargeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is inviting students in grades three through 12, who live or go to school in the 45th Assembly District [http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Steven-Cymbrowitz/map/], to enter his 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest. With an unprecedented resurgence of anti-Semitic acts raging across

Brooklyn Public Library And Aquila Theater Company Present “YouStories Of Holocaust & Veteran Survivors”

Local Holocaust survivors. Photo by Erica ShermanThe Aquila Theater Company and the Brooklyn Public Library are teaming up to stage dramatic readings of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Euripides’ “Herakles,” Homer’s “Odyssey” and Sophocles’ “Ajax” for veterans, Holocaust survivors and the general public, this Saturday, September 6 at 12:00pm at Brooklyn

Holocaust Survivors To Commemorate 70th Anniversary Of D-Day At Memorial Park On Sunday

The following is a flier from the Holocaust Memorial Committee:

Local Survivors Gather At Memorial Park For International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Rabbi Menahem Zarkh leads the memorial service in prayer.Local survivors of the Nazi atrocities during World War II braved frigid weather to gather with family and friends and commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day yesterday. Organized by the Be Proud Foundation, about 35 Southern Brooklyn members of the Russian-American Jewish

Movie Night Screening Of “Hannah Arendt” At The Beth El Jewish Center Of Flatbush

Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt. Source: IMDbThe Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush invites all to its fall film series, with a showing of the controversial biopic “Hannah Arendt [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/],” about the journalist for “The New Yorker” who penned “Eichmann in Jerusalem.” The film will

Movie Night At The Beth El Jewish Center Of Flatbush This Monday

Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the Israel Philharmonic. Source: bronislawhuberman.comThe Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush invites all to its fall film series, kicking off with a screening of the documentary “Orchestra of Exiles [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/orchestra-of-exiles/],” Monday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. inside the