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JDC’s CEO Alan Gill to step down after four-year tenure

Gill cited a desire to return to Israel as one of the reasons he is stepping down.

But Did He Deserve to be Murdered by Fellow Jews?

Seventy-one years ago today, on August 28, 1944, Jewish Sonderkommando Auschwitz inmates beat to death a man named Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski. Rumkowski, the former head of the Lodz Ghetto’s Council of Elders, is still the topic of debate: Was he a decent man working for the safety of the ghetto’s Jews—or was he simply a […]