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The Holocaust, in the survivors’ words

NEW YORK, April 6 (JTA) Stories of Holocaust survival told by the survivors themselves will be featured in a documentary scheduled to make its debut May 1 on PBS. “Witness: Voices From The Holocaust” contains some of the earliest archival footage of Holocaust survivors. Through the survivors’ first-person stories, the pain of the Shoah […]

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Librarian of Jewish life dies at 90

NEW YORK, April 5 (JTA) Dina Abramowicz, a survivor of the Vilna Ghetto and a longtime librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, died Monday at the age of 90. A small, slim woman, with a tall intellect, Abramowicz was a “bookworm” supremely dedicated to intellectual pursuits, said David Rogow, a longtime friend. […]

Israeli court tackles conversion issue

JERUSALEM, April 5 (JTA) Israel’s Supreme Court is poised to resume deliberations on an issue that has long strained relations among Judaism’s religious streams the recognition of non-Orthodox conversions performed in the Jewish state. A decision on whether the conversions are legitimate will bring to a head a debate that has for years […]

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