Norman Bernstein, D.C. real estate developer and philanthropist, dies at 100 Harrison Smith Norman Bernstein, a Washington real estate developer and philanthropist who championed Jewish causes and housing desegregation, encouraging local property owners to open their apartment buildings to African Americans in the early 1960s, died July 5 at his home in the District. He was 100. The cause was pneumonia, said his son Joshua Bernstein. A son of Jewish immigrants from present-day Lithuania, Mr. Bernstein launched his real estate career in 1940, at age 19, raising money from friends and family to buy rowhouses with his older brother, Leo. As the market took off after World War II, they started acquiring larger office and apartment buildings while aiming to buy, repair and sell homes within 90 days. Their slogan: “Your neighbor bought from us.”
Faye Schulman: Fought Nazis with a rifle and a camera
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By Sam Roberts
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FAYE SCHULMAN: 1922 - 2021
On August 14, 1942, a year after German troops invaded Soviet-occupied Poland, they massacred the last 1850 Jews from a shtetl named Lenin near the Sluch River. Only 27 were spared, their skills deemed essential by the invaders.
Faye Schulman, a member of the partisan Resistance brigade in eastern Poland who, after her family was executed, fought the Nazis with a rifle and a camera, taking photos of German barbarity and Jews’ determination to fight back.
She joined the Resistance brigade after her family was executed and used her photographs as proof of German barbarity and Jews’ determination to fight back.
Hamas is the largest of several Palestinian militant Islamist groups, explains BBC News.
Its name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement - Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya.
Hamas was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric.
He became an activist in the local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood after dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo.
From the late 1960s, Yassin preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both of which were occupied by Israeli forces following the 1967 Six-Day War, explains the CFR.
Yassin established Hamas as the Brotherhood’s local political arm in December 1987.