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Heir Challenges Sale of Long-Lost Klimt, Alleging Shoah-Era Theft Was Concealed
New York Dispatch Heir Challenges Sale of Long-Lost Klimt, Alleging Shoah-Era Theft Was Concealed A legal battle has erupted over a Gustav Klimt masterpiece valued at approximately $100 million, with the last known blood descendant of the family that originally owned the painting accusing a Vienna auction house of disguising the work's identity in order to sell it rather than return it to its rightful heirs. Patricia Leahy, an American descendant of the prominent Austrian Jewish Lieser...
Belgium’s Assault on Brit Milah Is an Assault on Jewish Life
A nation cannot claim to welcome Jews while criminalising one of the oldest and most fundamental commandments of Judaism
How Public Talk of Terror Strengthens Our Enemies
by Ram ben Ze'ev How Public Talk of Terror Strengthens Our Enemies In times of terror and tragedy, good people often struggle to know how to respond. The natural instinct — particularly in an age of relentless media and instant communication — is to speak: to share, to bear witness, to denounce evil aloud. Yet in doing so, many unintentionally serve the very purposes of those who commit such heinous acts. This truth must be confronted, particularly by those who seek to live in accordance with...
Remembering Kitchener Camp: A Memorial Concert for Yom HaShoah
As part of the Yom HaShoah commemoration, the concert will remember the Kitchener Camp in Kent which saved the lives of 4,000 Jewish refugee men On Thursday 28 April 2022, a special concert to evoke memories of the Kitchener Camp will take place at London’s Wigmore Hall as part of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration. The Kitchener Camp opened in Sandwich, Kent, in January 1939, and saved the lives of 4,000 Jewish refugee men from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Many of these...
April 29 is Proclaimed as “#ENDJEWHATRED Day”
On April 29, 2022, NY State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick (D-38th) will present a Proclamation declaring that day to be #EndJewHatred...
Jewish Souls at Peace
by Anthony Stefano My 12-year-old daughter Jenny woke me at 7 am Sunday morning by pouncing on me like she was still a three year old. My...
A Brief History of the Haggadah
by Martin Bodek Every eon has its eras; every era its periods; every period has its epochs; every epoch has its ages. Outside of what...
Defeating Intolerance and Antisemitism
British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, hosts a workshop on how to combat rising intolerance and antisemitism On 27th February, British...
