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Category Archives: Holocaust
I Meet A Holocaust Survivor On My Shabbos Walk
Saturday evening, I go for a stroll. An old man calls me over. “Can you do me a big favor?” he asks. “What do you need?” “I need a mitzvah.” “What do you need?” “I just had heart surgery. I … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Jews
Tagged auschwitz, heart surgery, holocaust survivor, mitzvah, one god, saturday evening
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Monica Osborne, Ph.D. ⎪ Dropping the H (olocaust) — Bomb: The Ethics of Post 9/11 Comedy
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Claims Conference Report
Professor Yitzhak Kerem emails: “Luke, can you publish this. Since appearance of the story of the $42 million dollar stealing of Claims Conference, no journalist in the world has decency to care about continuing and ongoing scandals of the Claims. … Continue reading
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Tagged board of deputies, board of deputies of british jews, decency, holocaust compensation, jewish material claims, jewish owners, jewish survivors, kerem, scandals, thievery, yitzhak
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Rabbi Rabbs: ‘I Should’ve Died In The Holocaust!’
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. Watch the whole show.
Holocaust Claims Conference
Background Professor Yitzchak Kerem emails: Noah Flug briefed Knesset Committee for survivors this week. He noted as “punishment” for Russian employee corruption (went on for 16 years with oversight and possible collaboration from Sol Kagan, Edgar Bronfman, Israel Singer, Julius … Continue reading
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Tagged art property, edgar bronfman, israel office, israel singer, shroeder, unnecessary documentation
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Blaming Ourselves For The Holocaust
In his 1998 lecture on Exodus 33, Dennis Prager says: Jewish history holds the Jews responsible for leaving their land. It’s the only history I know of where the people have taken 100% responsibility for their own misfortune. The Holocaust … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, exodus 33, jewish history, misfortune, misfortunes
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Singing For Her Captors
From nj.com: RARITAN TWP. — Judith Schneiderman still remembers her disappointment when she told the handsome, polite officer that she and her older sister Frieda weren’t twins. Since they weren’t, the girls were shoved toward the bathhouses and ordered to … Continue reading
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Tagged bathhouses, holocaust survivors, jewish police, judith rosenberg, kappo, schneiderman
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Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank
This is a great Holocaust memoir. Here are some of the most inspiring passages: From page 188 (after Eva had been liberated by the Russians, she was 15): After these showers we were handed clean knickers and directed to another … Continue reading
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Tagged anne frank, bosoms, holocaust memoir, russian soldier, step sister, trestle table
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Faceless Bureaucracy Made The Holocaust Possible
On his radio show July 11, 2008, Dennis Prager says: “I am reading a book by a sociologist and he is speaking about how could the Holocaust happen. His big answer is bureaucracy. The larger the governmental bureaucracy, the more … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, faceless bureaucracy, governmental bureaucracy, reading a book, sociologist
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