Czech Torah Scroll Commemoration On Sunday, February 25, The Arizona Jewish Historical Society is proud to host the Czech Holocaust Torah Celebratory Commemoration at the CutlerPlotkin Jewish Heritage Center, marking 60 years since the Torahs were rescued from a warehouse in Prague and sent to London’s Westminster Synagogue through the generosity of Ralph Yablon. This…
Jews on the Move: The geographic dimension of Jewish survival in North America They call us “wandering Jews.” But, in the US, As roughly 90% of all Jews now reside in either Israel or North America, it can be ar21st century in the US, it can be argued that the Jewish people have at…
Features Presentations by Father Patrick Desbois and Rachael Cerrotti, Inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation (TEMPE, Ariz. – February 8, 2022) The Phoenix Holocaust Association is bringing Holocaust by Bullets (HBB), a community-wide education program back to the Valley. Originally scheduled for the spring of 2020, the exhibit and education programs return to the…
By Irwin Cotler In recalling horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, we are obligated to give voice to the voiceless and to empower the powerless I write on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day – marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp Auschwitz,…
Ahead of the upcoming Christmas holiday season, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) has sent $515,000 to 156 Righteous Gentile, rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust living in 14 different countries. The foundation provides monthly financial awards to these aged and needy Righteous Gentiles, helping to repay a debt of gratitude on behalf of…
Photo: Larry Cutler at his bar mitzvah with Rabbi Albert Plotkin in 1965. Photo courtesy the Arizona Jewish Historical Society. Lawrence “Larry” Cutler will be honored with the 2021 Jerry Lewkowitz Heritage Award at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society’s Centennial Heritage Gala coming up on Oct. 30. When asked about the recognition, Larry shares that…
The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the people-to-people network of Jewish communities from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries that are developing Jewish life in the region, facilitated the first Jewish wedding in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 52 years this past weekend at the Ritz Carlton Manama. The event was also the first…
Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is organized annually by the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Philadelphia. Held in May, the nationwide celebration features a month-long series of events, including a virtual Capitol Hill event and the premiere of an important documentary about a rabbi who played a vital role in the…
Photo: Ottoman troops guard Armenians being deported. Ottoman Empire, 1915–16. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomes the recognition of the Armenian genocide by President Biden. This follows the 2019 Congressional resolution recognizing this tragic event as genocide. “Holocaust history teaches that…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, names of Holocaust victims are recited in Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance and the Hall of Names. The public is invited to participate in this ceremony, reading names of relatives and friends murdered in the Holocaust, or reading names of victims provided to them by Yad Vashem from the Central Database of…
