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Remembering the blessings of our ancestors
The younger generation's eyeballs roll when I get up at weddings, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs to offer a toast to a great-grandmother even the oldest guests never met, but who enabled us to be together. Yet I'd bet that my children and grandchildren...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Separation of Church and State, Human Interest
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Arthur Hoover, 1924-2013
After surviving three Nazi concentration camps, Arthur Hoover walked for six months across Europe, eventually securing passage to the United States and settling in Chicago, where he landed work as a coat shaper at Hart Schaffner & Marx. At the company,...Tags: U.S. Army, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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West Hollywood says a hearty spasibo to Russian veterans
Some of the speakers' attempts to speak Russian in the warm West Hollywood auditorium were clunky, but one word was repeated over and over Saturday afternoon. Spasibo. Thank you. In a Plummer Park auditorium decorated in red and white balloons and...
Tags: U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: French Literature, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Teaching and Learning, U.S. Army, Colleges and Universities
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The Week in Pictures | May 5-12, 2013
FrameworkThis week firefighters battled multiple wildfires in Southern California with the Springs fire being the largest (more photos); three kidnapped women were rescued from a home in Cleveland; volcano Mayon erupted in the Philippines, killing at least five... -
Hans M. Wuerth: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people'
When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...Tags: Government, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Ernest Hemingway
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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Religious Texts, Police Arrests, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Religion and Belief
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Nazi-themed opera production canceled in Germany
This post has been corrected and updated. See the notes below for details.BERLIN -- A Nazi-themed production of the Wagner opera "Tannhauser" that featured scenes of gas chambers and the execution of a family has been canceled in Germany after some audience members had to receive medical treatment for shock. The Deutsche...Tags: Religion and Belief, Germany, Judaism, Music, Music Industry
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Pritzker Military Library offers oral histories, speakers
The wide windows in the landmark Monroe Building offer a sweeping view of Michigan Avenue and Millennium Park. On a crystal-blue spring day, it's easy to temporarily forget the long, bloody history of warfare. But keeping the stories of "citizen soldiers"...
Tags: WTTW, Libraries, Italy, Lifestyle and Leisure, Czech Republic
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One of our favorite things: Children's theater stages 'Sound of Music'
amyc@herald-mail.comAt 15, Hannah Colella is winding down her career with Hagerstown Children’s Theater. The Waynesboro (Pa.) Area Senior High School student has been with the theater for three years, and has appeared in “Hello, Dolly!” and “Oklahoma!...Tags: James Buchanan, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Students, Teaching and Learning
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A Bleak Fassbinder Film Gets a Full-blown High-Tech Live Stage Version at Yale Rep
In a Year With 13 Moons Through May 18 at the Yale Repertory Theatre, corner of Chapel and York streets, New Haven. (203) 432-1234, http://www.yalerep.org. Based on the film and screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Adapted for the stage by Bill...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Germany, Movies, Gardens and Parks, Yale Repertory Theatre
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Commercial musical 'Signs of Life' coming to Biograph
The peak fall weeks at the Biograph Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., won't be occupied by a Victory Gardens Theater production, but a small commercial musical set during the era of the Holocaust and concerning a ghetto and concentration camp located in...
Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment Events, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Theater, Czech Republic
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