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Today marks the 17th anniversary of the devastating bombing attack on Argentina’s Jewish community center, the AMIA building. In Buenos Aires today, a siren sounded at 9:53 a.m. this morning — the moment the attack took place in 1994 — as a crowd gathered in front of the since-rebuilt AMIA building. The attack, which killed 85 and injured some 300 people, […]

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(For full effect, play the above track while reading.) Folk musician Woody Guthrie would have turned 99 years old today. The posthumous discovery of Guthrie’s Jewish songs by his daughter, Nora — director of the elder Guthrie’s archives — eventually resulted in a 2007 Grammy Award-winning album by the Klezmatics. [[READMORE]] As explained in this […]

Thanks to Jewish Treats/National Jewish Outreach Project for pointing out that today’s Hebrew date, 11 Tammuz, marks the yahrzeit of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who passed away in Paris on July 12, 1935. As JTA reported at the time of his death: "Col. Alfred Dreyfus, Jewish officer in the French Army whose unjust imprisonment on Devil’s Island […]

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