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It Took 50 Years For Father and Son to Tell This Story Together
On an autumn day in 1998, Joel Poremba waited in a bedroom with his wife and infant son as his father sat in his Southern California living room with an interviewer from USC Shoah Foundation. This…
Monday, August 30, 2021
The Gift of a Friendship: Saying Goodbye to Rabbi Bent Melchior
There is gratitude deep inside of grief. A feeling of, how lucky was I to have this friendship at all. That’s how I feel about my dear Rabbi Bent Melchior who passed away in Copenhagen on July 28,…
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
We Remember: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Seventy-one years later, the date was formally declared “Roma…
Monday, August 2, 2021