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Renowned Jewish genealogist, Steve Siegel, dies at age 65

Following a lengthy battle with cancer, Steve Siegel, z”L, a renowned genealogist from the greater New York area, has passed away: [[READMORE]] STEVEN W. SIEGEL died early Saturday morning, 21 January 2012, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He would have been 66 on Feb. 23. Steve was a dear friend and mentor to countless Jewish […]

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Revenge at Birkenau

More a certainty than a legend, a woman killed a Nazi guard at Birkenau while she was ordered to strip en route to the gas chambers. But who was she? [[READMORE]] In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), Randy Herschaft of the AP posted a document attesting to the incident found in the U.S. National Archives and […]

JTA’s Oscar Nominee

In 1947, eventual JTA president Eleazar Lipsky was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. [[READMORE]] The film “Kiss of Death,” which was later remade with Samuel L. Jackson and David Caruso, was based on Lipsky’s novel “The Kiss of Death.” Who did Lipsky lose to in the now-defunct Best Story Category? Miracle on 34th Sreet. […]

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