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Daily Briefing: CONTEMPLATING THE HOLOCAUST

Mountain of shoes from holocaust victims | Konsentrasjonslei… | Flickr
Mountain of shoes from holocaust victims | Konsentrasjonslei… | Flickr

The Tikkun in Sutzkever’s Work: Elie Wiesel, translated and introduced by Allan Nadler, Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2023

‘In the Garden of the Righteous’ Review: Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust:  Diane Cole, WSJ, Jan. 22, 2023

Abbas’s Berlin Press Conference Confirmed a Deep Truth About the Palestinian President:  Stephan Pollard, Jewish Chronicle, Apr. 17, 2022

Teaching Kids About the Holocaust Earlier Can Help Combat Antisemitism, Educators Say:  Caroline Alphonso, Globe and Mail, Jan. 26, 2023


       SHABBAT READING

The Spiritual Child:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Bo, 5776m 5783 — The American writer Bruce Feiler recently published a best-selling book entitled The Secrets of Happy Families. It’s an engaging work that uses research largely drawn from fields like team-building, problem-solving and conflict resolution, showing how management techniques can be used at home also to help make families cohesive units that make space for personal growth.


 

Holocaust – Historie – NDLA

WATCH:  God and the Holocaust:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, 3 Parts.  Includes transcript and discussion questions.
 
New Study Reveals Nearly One Quarter of Dutch Millennials and Gen Z Believe the Holocaust Was a Myth or Exaggerated:  Claims Conference, Jan. 25, 2023 — The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) today released a Netherlands Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, including a breakdown of Millennial and Gen Z respondents, exposing a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history.
 
Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab World has its Pitfalls:  Lyn Julius, Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Jan. 16, 2023 —  Good news from the Gulf: The UAE will teach about the Holocaust in its schools. It is only right that in the ongoing process of normalization with Israel, the Gulf countries should make sure that schoolchildren are acquainted with the greatest catastrophe to befall the Jewish people.
 
Menorahs and Tableware Hidden from Nazis: Polish Builders Uncover Jewish WWII Trove:  AP and TOI Staff, Times of Israel, Jan. 8, 2023 — About 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been accidentally uncovered during home renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland.

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