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The Day the Thunderbird Cried
Author: David l. Israel
This story is one of many from The Day the Thunderbird Cried published by EMEK Press in September 2005. The book deals with the American troops who liberated the Dachau concentration camp. You may contact me for any further information needed
emek18@charter.net
Fantasies
The first words he remembered hearing were âSCHNELLâ? and âRAUSâ? â âquicklyâ? and âout.â? He didnât know how old he was then â maybe one and half or two years old. He heard the older boys in the group talking about mothers and fathers, but he didnât know what the words meant. The others all had names, but when they spoke to him, they only pointed with a finger or said, âyou do this or you do that.â? He never thought about the fact that he didnât have a name. He didnât think much about anything. There was no one to teach him otherwise, so he assumed this was the way things were. Full story.
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British Chief Rabbi Encourages Students to Make a Difference “One Act at a Time”
November 28, 2005
“To make a difference, you don’t have to change the world all at once. You save the world one act at a time.”
The words of Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, held great meaning for the standing-room-only crowd at Hillel’s Charles and Lynn Schusterman International Center in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. Rabbi Sacks’ visit coincided with the opening of “Darfur Drawn: The Conflict of Darfur Through Children’s Eyes,” a one-of-a-kind art exhibit that showcases children’s drawings from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. The chief rabbi was on hand for the exhibit’s Washington debut and then shared his thoughts about the conflict through the lens of his latest book, “To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility.” Full story.
By Margaret Gillerman
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/28/2005
Sarijane Freiman led the group of neatly groomed St. Louis police recruits in khaki uniforms through the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. They stopped at a photograph of a boy with his school class in 1939. Full story.
Last update – 10:21 30/11/2005
By Amiram Barkat and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Genetic testing will not be performed on the bones of Jewish inmates discovered in a Holocaust-era mass grave during construction on a U.S. military camp near Stuttgart, according to a decision by Ulrich Goll, justice minister of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Full story.
Today in Italy
Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister’s office
(AGI)- Vatican City, Italy, Nov. 30 – The Holocaust was a “vile, murderous operation, that remains as an indelible disgrace in the story of human kind.” Pope Benedict XVI does not mince his words when describing the deportation of Jews to the death camps.
Full story.