By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate and son of Holocaust survivors who led a tumultuous leveraged buyout that bankrupted the Tribune media company in the early 2000s, died Thursday. He was 81. Before buying the … Read More
By Rabbi Hillel Smulowitz On a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany where Jews hid from Nazis, the following poem was found: “I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when feeling it … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor On Monday, April 17, the Trager Family JCC will join the rest of the world in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. The hour-long ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. and will unfold on the … Read More
By Linda Buchwald (JTA) — As a Roman Catholic in Warsaw during World War II, Jan Karski could easily have ignored the horrors unfolding behind the walls of the Jewish ghetto. Instead, as a member of the Polish Resistance, he … Read More
The Story Behind the Tim Lorsch’s “The Suitcase” By Jeffrey Jamner For most of his musical career, Tim Lorsch has been a session musician and a member of the bands in Nashville, but not the featured artist. He is a … Read More
Human Resources Lee Chottiner Weaponizing the Holocaust has been going on for some time, but with nowhere near the intensity that we are seeing now. Even Jews, people who should know better, are now getting in to the act, promising … Read More
Friday, April 9 at 7:00 pm on YouTube Please join The Temple for a special Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial Shabbat as our Grade 6 class leads the service.
Guest Columnist Rabbi Hillel Smulowitz Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I knew that my parents’ families perished in concentration camps, but I never understood why they did not talk about it. As I got older, through my own experiences … Read More
Human Resources Lee Chottiner CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has come under fire for comparing what she called President Donald Trump’s “assault on values” and Kristallnacht. Speaking on Nov. 12 on her show, Amanpour, the veteran journalist stirred more … Read More
WHAT?: THE MARCH OF THE LIVING is a 2-week international, educational program that brings 12,000+ Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex …