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Teachers learn about Holocaust at summer institute
One teacher was interested in the connection between music and the Holocaust. Another learned about the Holocaust from Jewish friends when they were growing up in Miami and wanted to learn more. And another teacher wanted to expand his knowledge about the...Tags: Judaism, Arts and Culture, Black History, African-American History Month, Schools
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Holocaust survivors, WWII vets pay tribute to one another
Estelle Glaser Laughlin was only 13 when she and her family were taken to a Nazi death camp in Poland. Albert Wiener was a Jewish teen from Brooklyn drafted into the Army during World War II who hoped to end the persecution of European Jews. The two...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Judaism, The Holocaust (1934-1945), World War II (1939-1945)
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AFMDA names region's new director
The Southeast Region of American Friends of Magen David Adom has a new director. Mark Glickman, a Boca Raton resident and a 35-year fundraising veteran with extensive Jewish nonprofit and private sector experience, became the regional director earlier...Tags: Judaism, Palm Beach County, Religion and Belief, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Israel
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Holocaust Museum turns 20 while eyewitness survivors dwindle
Lauren Markoe writes for the Religion News Service about losing the generation of eyewitnesses to the Holocaust: WASHINGTON (RNS) The adult survivors of the Holocaust are mostly gone now, and those who survived as children — and were old enough at...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Interest, Museums
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Chambersburg church to show 'The Glorious and the Brave'
“The Glorious and the Brave” will be shown Saturday at 7 p.m. at The Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring, 221 N. Main St. in Chambersburg. The stories of eyewitnesses and participants in history come to life in this film that chronicles the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Judaism, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief, Sociology
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Datebook
Sunday, April 7 5K Annapolis Walk The Maryland Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society sponsors its 5K Annapolis Walk from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, 500 Taylor Ave. in Annapolis. Walk begins at the stadium and...Tags: Mother's Day, Arts and Culture, Schools, Homes, Music
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An opportunity to break free of Ticketmaster
I thought Ticketmaster was the most hated company in America, but it turns out to have had some competition for that title in recent years. It lost last year to AT&T, Bank of America, Walmart and Electronic Arts, the maker of digital games. The...
Tags: Jackson Browne, Services and Shopping, Ticketmaster, Memorial Stadium, Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Letters: Memories of the Holocaust
Re "Youngest on Schindler's list," Obituary, Jan. 14 It is sad to learn of Leon Leyson's passing. He was a true mensch, a generously giving man. For the last 15 years or so, except this last one, Leyson spoke to students in my Cal State Fullerton...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Interest, Obituaries, California State University, Fullerton
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Band continues exploring Washington
Mark Sperry's Sunday morning started with eating breakfast in a hotel, dressing in his marching band uniform and taking a trip to the Lincoln Memorial National Monument for a photo with the other 111 members of Northern State University Marching Wolves....Tags: Arts and Culture, Washington, DC, Michelle Obama, Festive Events, Trips and Vacations
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A young survivor of genocide takes her message around the world
At 24, Clemantine Wamariya knows more about trauma and survival than most of us ever will. If we're lucky. When Wamariya was 6, she and her sister were forced to flee the ethnic killings in Rwanda, spending the next several years in a series of...
Tags: Refugee, Rwanda, Politics, Genocide, Barack Obama
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December 5: Midday Fix - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC www.ushmm.org/ Event: 20th Anniversary National Tour: Chicago Sunday, June 9, 2013 10:00 a.m. Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington Street Chicago For a list...
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Plakas: Some people just can't accept gay marriage as equality issue
On Monday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia answered a gay Princeton student's question related to the justice's writings, which equate laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. He told the student he felt legislative bodies...Tags: Lawyers, Germany, Judges, Justice and Rights, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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