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Guatemala government joins with Jewish community to teach the Holocaust

Another aim of the project is to promote the values of tolerance and respect.

March 16, 2017 7:47 am

See 1900s Bukharan Jewish Children in Gorgeous Full Color

When we think about Jews in the Czarist Russia, what comes to mind? Probably black-and-white, or maybe sepia-toned, images of poor, pious Jews, shot through a dusty lens. So Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky’s photograph of Jewish boys and their teacher in Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) might come as something of a surprise. Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) took the picture […]

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Jewish camp counselor in NJ dies at 37

Josh Allen, of South Orange, a high school math teacher and father of a 4-year-old, fainted during an orientation session at the camp and never regained consciousness.

June 30, 2016 5:29 pm