Five Project Interchange alumni became founding members of AJC Miami’s Community of Conscience, which brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to address and repair divisions within American society.
In this week's AJC Shabbat Table, we contemplate the meaning of counting the days of Omer, the seven weeks between Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, focusing on being mindful of our journey with all its uncertainties. We also remember the maiden voyage of the SS Theodor Herzl, the largest passenger ship that ever sailed under the Israeli flag.
From Los Angeles to Brooklyn and in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, London, and Athens, thousands marched down highways, climbed buildings and statues, and descended on Israeli consulates, vilifying Israel’s efforts to defend its citizens.
A Polish judge has ordered two Holocaust historians to apologize for a lack of accuracy in using survivor and witness testimonies alleging that a former Polish mayor was complicit in the murder of several dozen Jews more than seven decades ago.