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Leon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List
Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler was an emaciated 13-year-old boy named Leon Leyson, who had to stand on a box to reach the machinery in the Krakow factory where Schindler sheltered him and his family....
Tags: Nazi Party, Human Interest, Judaism, Entertainment, Language
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Florabel Kinsler dies at 83; social worker aided Holocaust survivors
After World War II, social workers typically urged Holocaust survivors to forget their horrific wartime experiences and get on with their lives. That struck Florabel Kinsler as a foolish and impossible order. During a decades-long career, the Los...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Alcohol Addiction, Science and Technology, Human Interest, Health and Medical Professionals
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Guillermo Martinez: As Chavez takes his time, Havana rules Venezuela
Latin American politics in the second decade of the 21st century are strange, to say the least. Other adjectives may apply. They reader may choose the most appropriate after reading this column. Raśl Castro, the younger of two brothers who have ruled...Tags: Caracas (Venezuela), Cuba, Germany, Caribbean Islands, Venezuela
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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'The Big Bang Theory' on CBS
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES 30 Rock: After seven seasons Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin bring down the curtain on their hit comedy (8 p.m....
Tags: Gabriel Macht, Jay Ryan, Bridget Regan, Charlie Sheen, Ashton Kutcher
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Bigoted fans mar debut of Muslim players for Jerusalem soccer team
JERUSALEM – Managers of a popular Jerusalem soccer club vowed Wednesday to proceed with plans to introduce two Muslim players to the mostly Jewish team despite a backlash from some intolerant fans. The two new players, Zaur Sadayev and Gabriel...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Israel, Racism, Islam, Judaism
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Chance encounter at stamp show led to 'Nazi Scourge' exhibit of rare Holocaust artifacts
Daniel Spungen was at a Pennsylvania stamp show in June 2007 when something he saw changed his life forever. Ken Lawrence, a fellow stamp collector and avid postal history buff seated at a nearby table, was holding a piece of Torah that a World War II...
Tags: Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Old Catholic, Christianity
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Letters: 'Never again'
Re "Coming back to life after the Holocaust," Opinion, Jan. 27 Thanks to Allan Chernoff's Op-Ed article, we learned about the United Nations declaring Jan. 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As Chernoff notes, the United Nations urged its...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations
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Review: Morlot, Ax and the Philharmonic take a direct route
The French-born conductor Ludovic Morlot was a surprise choice to succeed Gerard Schwarz as music director of the Seattle Symphony in 2011 – a liaison that appears to be going smoothly. Three months after arriving in Seattle, he subbed for James...
Tags: Culture, Emanuel Ax, Arts and Culture
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Reawakening the ghosts of Skokie
To me, a kid growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Skokie seemed like any other suburb, its tidy houses sitting on impeccably manicured lawns. Sure, on Friday nights and Saturday mornings you'd sometimes see Hasidic Jews strolling to and from synagogue....Tags: Howard Reich, Skokie, Nazi Party, Human Interest, Rogers Park
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Letters: Obama's line in the sand
Re "Obama seems to gain ground in debt fight," News Analysis, Jan. 15 The last time we faced a debt-ceiling crisis, in the summer of 2011, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) walked out of the negotiations and President Obama warned that millions...
Tags: Dick Armey , Republican Party, John Boehner, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Self-help for the literary set
The great theorist of psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan envisioned desire as “caught in the rails of metonymy, eternally extending toward the desire for something else.” In the rhetorical figure of metonymy, a signifier points toward something...
Tags: Psychotherapy, Samuel Beckett, Health Treatments, Entertainment, Ethan Coen
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Review: 'Lore' a distinct coming-of-age tale in Nazi Germany
For both audiences who admire it and the protagonist who lives it, the intense, emotional "Lore" is a picture from life's other side. While stories dealing with the suffering surrounding World War II and the Holocaust are a dramatic staple, "Lore" flips...
Tags: Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nazi Party, Human Interest
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