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Liliana Segre attends a ceremony honoring people who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Milan, Italy March 05, 2021. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor is a ‘senator for life’ in her native Italy. She also receives constant anti-Semitic threats.

The subject of multiple death threats, Lilliane Segre has been under police protection since 2019. “Those who, like me, have lived through the War, are used to the idea of death and loss,” she says.

Holocaust survivors are dwindling out. A new Yom Hashoah ritual recognizes that.

“We do need new ritual around this experience because we can’t continue to just have Holocaust survivors speak,” one organizer of the program said.

Elite US military language school drops Hebrew

There isn’t enough demand at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California, known as one of the most successful language learning enterprises in the English-speaking world.