Holocaust Remembrance to highlight women resisters
Main Street Daily News By Ronnie Lovler April 10, 2023 Alachua County’s Jewish community and others will gather Sunday to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day — or Yom HaShoah as it is known in Hebrew — to recall horrors that killed at least six million European Jews and millions more during World War II. Dr. Nili […]
StandWithUs Comment on Whoopi Goldberg Reiterating Holocaust Comments in New Interview
nbcnews December 27, 2022 After being previously condemned for these comments made about the Holocaust, Whoopi Goldberg reiterated them in a new interview by The Sunday Times of London , saying the Holocaust “wasn’t originally about race.” She added, “It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You […]
SWU Holocaust Education Center Director Interviewed on Issues & Ideas With Chris DeBello
On August 29, 2022, Matt Lebovic, Director of the StandWithUs Holocaust Education Center, was interviewed on a radio podcast, Issues&Ideas With Chris DeBello, highlighting the urgent need for Holocaust education in schools. Citing the frequency of Holocaust denial, minimization, and lack of awareness in students, Lebovic discusses the benefits of the Holocaust Education Center’s abilities […]
New York governor signs legislation to aid Holocaust survivors, support education
The new regulations authorize the state’s commissioner of education to conduct a survey and determine whether school districts in New York are meeting the requirements for teaching about the Holocaust, which has been mandatory since 1994. August 12, 2022 Jewish News Syndicate Avi Posnick shakes hands with NY Governor Kathy Holchul New York Gov. Kathy […]
StandWithUs Thanks New York for Passing Bill to Assess the State of Holocaust Education
(New York City, NY — August 10, 2022) — StandWithUs thanks the New York Legislature and Governor Kathy Hochul for unanimously passing ( 61-0 ; 145-0 ) and signing Bill A472C/S121A into law. The signing ceremony took place on August 10 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, with Avi Posnick, Executive Director for […]
Holocaust survivor shares his story
By Spectrum News Staff, Ohio May 13th, 2022 About 80 years ago, the world witnessed one of the worst atrocities in modern human history: the Holocaust. The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center hosted a speaker, Sami Steigmann, and holocaust survivor Wednesday evening to share his […]
‘Butterfly Project’ Fuses Holocaust Education and Israel Education, Raises Hope
By: Daniela Ben Joseph, San Diego Jewish World April 26th, 2022 SAN DIEGO — On the beautiful morning of April 10, The Butterfly Project in collaboration with the StandWithUs San Diego High School Department, held a Holocaust education program at the House of Israel . The International Village in Balboa Park where it is located, […]
Whoopi Goldberg apologizes after saying the Holocaust ‘isn’t about race’ on ‘The View’
USA Today Charles Trepany January 31, 2022 Whoopi Goldberg is apologizing for comments she made about the Holocaust on “The View.” And she says now the backlash helped her understand why she “upset so many people.” During Monday’s episode of the ABC daytime talk show, the EGOT winner, 66, received pushback from her co-hosts — […]
On eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, ‘Students 4 IHRA’ campaign launched
The Jerusalem Post JANUARY 26, 2022 Photo: Christopher Penler / Shutterstock.com On the brink of International Holocaust Remembrance Day this Thursday, StandWithUs and the International Legal Forum (ILF) announced the collaborative launch of a new multimedia-based campaign, “Students 4 IHRA: United to Define it.” The organizations said the novel drive will magnify the voices of […]
StandWithUs Announces New Holocaust Education Presentations Available for Schools and Organizations
Los Angeles, CA January 20, 2022 StandWithUs is proud to announce that it recently opened a Holocaust Education Center. The purpose of the center is to create a toolbox of user-friendly Holocaust education presentations and materials for public or private schools that have experienced Holocaust denial, lack of information, or simply want to proactively teach […]
StandWithUs outraged by Holocaust ‘reenactment’ in Washington, DC elementary school library
(Los Angeles, CA — December 20, 2021) — StandWithUs is outraged to learn of what passed for “Holocaust instruction” at Watkins Elementary School, as reported by The Washington Post . A school librarian’s attempt to have third-graders “role play” the genocide of six million Jews was deeply offensive to memory of the Holocaust. Additionally, the […]
The Holocaust will never be retro chic
Jewish News Syndicate MELISSA LANGSAM BRAUNSTEIN (April 26, 2021 / JNS) Armani, known for being sleek and polished, recently stumbled. Big time. It all started in early April when a private citizen named Janet Rosenblatt spotted a striped jacket in the window of Armani’s Beverly Hills store. Given how common stripes are, that wouldn’t have […]
Eagles’ DeSean Jackson Accepts 94-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor’s Invitation To Visit Auschwitz
CBS 3 July 13, 2020 View this post on Instagram On Zoom call, NFL player DeSean Jackson accepts an invitation to visit Auschwitz with 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg, who held the call dressed in his concentration camp uniform. His visit follows a pledge to educate himself after an antisemitic Instagram post. Credit : From […]
