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0 shares A rose is placed on the Holocaust Memorial on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images via JTA) (JTA) — Holocaust remembrance day programs in Jewish communities have stuck to a familiar form for decades, featuring Holocaust survivors sharing their stories followed by the lighting of yahrzeit candles and the recitation of commemorative prayers. But that model of memorial faces a problem that is growing ...

The British Army and the Falklands War ‘The significance of the Falklands War was enormous, both for Britain’s self-confidence and for our standing in the world. Since the Suez fiasco in 1956, British foreign policy had been one long retreat. Victory in the Falklands changed that.’ Margaret Thatcher, ‘The Downing Street Years’, 1993 In April 1982, British soldiers joined a naval task force sent to re-take the Falkland Islands after their surprise capture by the Argentine military. The...

Life After Pesach: The Minor League Holidays As the Borscht-belt comedian Alan King famously summarized, all Jewish holidays can be summarized as “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!” Sam Glaser is a performer, composer, producer and author in Los Angeles. He has released 25 albums of his music, he produces music for various media in his Glaser Musicworks recording studio and his book The Joy of Judaism is an Amazon bestseller. Visit him online at www.samglaser.com. Sam Glaser is a ...

WHO: The stunningly talented members of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley chess team. WHAT: The team just snagged its third consecutive national title. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: When you think of South Texas, you probably don’t think of chess. But you absolutely should. Brownsville, the working-class, primarily Hispanic city just across the Rio Grande from Matamoros, has quietly become an international chess powerhouse. Over the last decade, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s V...

Warsaw Man Killed in Benton County Rollover A Warsaw man was killed in a one-vehicle accident that occurred Tuesday evening in Benton County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that a northbound 2011 Ford Fusion driven by 45-year-old George M. Cecil of Warsaw, was on Highway MM, east of Paradise Road at 7:08 p.m., when the vehicle exited the left side of the roadway, struck a ditch and overturned, ejecting the driver. Cecil was pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m. by Benton County Coroner Weston...

The Latest: Thailand has 1st case of Britain virus variant The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 32 1of32A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a person working at an entertainment venue where a new cluster of COVID-19 infections was found, in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 7, 2021.Sakchai Lalit/APShow MoreShow Less 2of32In this Jan. 27, 2021, image from video, Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, speaks duri...

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Susan Faust April 7, 2021 The annual Holocaust Remembrance Day takes on added importance this year when Thursday, April 8, is set aside to recall and renounce genocide. Some folks at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol did not get the “Never Again” memo. One guy sported a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt inside the building (he was arrested a week later in Virginia), while a woman gave a “Sieg Heil” salute outside. These scenes are shocking. They place anti-Semitism and Arya...

Marta Lempart, the leader of the National Women’s Strike, accused the government of wanting ‘to legalise domestic violence’. Photograph: Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock Women’s rights activists and opposition MPs have accused the Polish government of abandoning victims of domestic violence as a bill that would in effect take the country out of a key international convention on violence against women moved through parliamen...

A former Wendy’s restaurant building that recently closed and has been boarded up will soon have a new tenant. Penguin Point, a Warsaw-based fast food chain that was established in 1950, will open a new restaurant soon along Lincoln Way West near Bendix Drive on South Bend’s west side. Since being hired to work for the regional fast food chain last August, CEO Pat Hilton has set forth an aggressive plan to open more restaurants and has eyed South Bend as a viable destination from the ...