Holocaust

There are movies that confirm your place in the world, pictures that let you know you’re on the right track, capable of resolving any puzzle put before you. And then there are those that make you feel like the tiniest speck in the cosmos, a sentient but tentative being whose…

Attending a gala screening at the Cannes Film Festival is a strange experience. No matter what movie is playing, men are in tuxes and women are in formalwear. Pop music and oldies blast on the red carpet. Cameras snap celebrities in Chopard jewels and occasionally random attendees who have put…

The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer with producers James Wilson and Ewa Puszczynska, and cast members Sandra Huller and Christian Friedel. (REUTERS/Yara Nardi) Cannes Film Festival unleashed Jonathan Glazer's highly-anticipated The Zone of Interest on Friday. Based on the 2014 novel from author Martin Amis, this one centers on…

On the eve of International Museums Day, the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum reiterated the city’s historical role in providing sanctuary to Jews during World War II.  At a meeting Wednesday, the museum gathered representatives from significant Jewish museums and institutions, as well as scholars and former Jewish refugees and their…

(May 17, 2023 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden announced his intent on May 17 to appoint 10 people to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Among the nominees are American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch; Rabbi Michael Beals (whom the president calls “my rabbi”) of Congregation Beth Shalom, a…

I started my rabbinical career 42 years ago, when I served as an assistant rabbi at a large, urban synagogue in Miami, Florida. Those were interesting and challenging times. I arrived in the wake of the Mariel boat lift. I experienced the plight of the Haitian refugees.  Those were the…

JTA — Florida’s state Education Department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval. The books were rejected as part of a broader review of new K-12 social studies…

Miami, FL – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, May 9, 2023 For some, a dark past is best forgotten. For Leah Cik Roth, a Holocaust Survivor, it is a reminder of perseverance, survival, and strength. In her memoir, “My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivor’s Soul,” she finally musters…

In The Ghetto Within, the Argentine novelist considers the dark shadow that the Holocaust has cast not only on Europe but also on Latin America. May 8, 2023 Holocaust literature at its core is inevitably Eurocentric, yet when seen globally, its geographic scope is stunning. In Latin America, for instance,…

(May 4, 2023 / JNS) Fritz von Uhde’s painting “Portray of a Lady” will be restituted to the heirs of Jewish collector Gustav Rüdenberg, according to an agreement with the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany, which the New York Department of Financial Services announced on May 4. “Portrait of a…