Texas official to teachers: State law requires teaching ‘opposing’ views on the Holocaust
By PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — Teachers in a Texas school district were told last week that a new state law ...
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Rube Goldberg and his amazing contraptions
A drawing of a Rube Goldberg contraption. (Photos courtesy of Abrams Comic Arts) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN St. Paulite Geoff George’s ...
Mass murder at the shul in Squirrel Hill
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When asked to review Mark Oppenheimer’s book about the killings at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, ...
Editorial: Reflections on a brief visit to Poland
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych (left) led visitors Maj-Britt Syse and Max Specktor through the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. In the Warsaw ...
Sabina Zimering, Shoah survivor, doctor and educator, dies
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor The Polish girl who narrowly escaped death multiple times during the Shoah went on ...
St. Paul welcomes new shaliach, Hadar Pe’er
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Hadar Pe’er is in the Twin Cities to educate and spread a message. As ...
A tour of Łódź
A shul stands abandoned in a building’s inner courtyard. (Photos: Mordecai Specktor) By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Łódź, Poland — Milena Wicepolska, ...
Millie returns to Germany after the war
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER People in Ellen Feldman’s new novel, The Living and the Lost, are full of secrets. We ...
Dan Israel sticks close to his Minnesota home
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Which Jewish musician has roots on the Iron Range and has a new recording coming out soon? ...
The Rebbe and the shofar
Rabbi Moshe Feller writes: "The core mitzva of the Torah, 'Love your fellow as yourself,' means that just as you ...
