The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family
Campus is hosting How Healers Became Killers, Nazi Medical Professionals, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, January 27. The program also is the opening event of the new featured exhibit, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, which opens January 17 and is slated to run until July 11, 2021.
“We are proud to host this thought-provoking exhibit and opening program which scrutinizes the complicity medical professionals had in the Holocaust,” said Holocaust Memorial Center CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. “The most important lesson we teach is that history is made through a
series of choices and that every choice has a consequence. By teaching the lessons of the Holocaust, our fervent hope is that each of us will be upstanders, not bystanders, when we witness wrongful actions.”
Al Jazeera and the Art of Deception
When I was a little girl in Tehran, my family and I took advantage of the temporary lulls in air strikes during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) to have dinner at various local restaurants. At one of those restaurants, the waiters had a practice of misinforming non-Iranian diners that they were out of tahdig, the gloriously crispy fried Persian rice. And the Iranian diners? They got tahdig by the barrelful because the restaurant felt the need to keep the locals happy. My family made a special request and ordered the tahdig “half and half” so that it was topped with two types of Persian stew, rather than one.
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9:30 am - 11:00 am
Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) in partnership with I Love Greenville and the Greenville Community Plan will present a virtual schooltime commemoration for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, January 27, 9:30 a.m., at the Academy of the Arts at Henry Snyder High School, located at 239 Bergen Avenue in Jersey City.
Carolyn Dorfman Dance (CDD), a premiere modern dance company based in New Jersey and New York City, will perform
The Legacy Project. It is a seminal body of work that celebrates founding Artistic Director Dorfman’s Eastern European Jewish roots illuminating her family’s history as Holocaust survivors and as new immigrants in America.
LRT English Newsletter: Snowed-in under lockdown
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Snow in Vilnius. / E. Blaževič/LRT
LRT English Newsletter – January 29, 2021.
For our readers outside Lithuania, or in case you haven’t looked outside, we are currently snowed in.
Since the start of the week, heavy snowfall combined with relatively warm temperatures has layered the country in heavy, wet snow breaking trees and electricity wires. As of Thursday, thousands remained without power. A jogger was injured in Vilnius when a tree fell on him in Vingis park.
Meanwhile, the lockdown, together with limits on movements and contacts between households, has been extended until March. Lithuania has also ramped up entry requirements – as of Monday, people arriving from countries affected by the new coronavirus strain will need to get tested for Covid-19 and get isolated. Arrivals from almost every foreign country will have to do the test or isolate for two weeks. The list is updated every week, so we will keep you post
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary of liberation online amid pandemic
A Jewish prayer for the souls of the people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over where the Warsaw ghetto stood during the Second World War, as a world paused by the coronavirus pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2021 5:30 PM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Members of the Polish parliament pay tribute as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, dedicated to the victims of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday.(Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images)