Cailin Acosta

Israel’s Lahav Shani Named New Conductor of Munich Philharmonic

Published by DPA The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra gave a rapturous welcome on Wednesday to the appointment of Israeli musician Lahav Shani as its new chief conductor in the 2026-27 season. After a year’s deliberation, the council of the Bavarian capital backed the 34-year-old in the role, initially for five years. Shani, who despite his young […]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

ADL: Extremists Crowdfunded More Than $6.2 Million Online in Recent Years

(JNS) Between 2016 and 2022, extremist groups raised more than $6.2 million on 10 crowdfunding sites, including GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, per a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The ADL tracked campaigns with “hateful rhetoric including antisemitism, white supremacy, QAnon conspiracies and anti-LGBTQ+ extremism, as well as rhetoric from antisemitic sects of

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USA

‘Turn Every Page’ Film a Stunning, Intimate Learning Experience

“Turn Every Page, The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” Released December 2022, Sony Pictures By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The film title, “Turn Every Page,” is the vital maxim of the investigative journalist and historian. At the beginning of COVID-19, in early 2020, I took the opportunity for some self-directed continuing

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, New Partnership Will Preserve Legacies

By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — On Friday, as we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Federation of San Diego County has an eye toward the future. We are proud and excited to announce a new partnership with San Diego’s local group of Holocaust Survivors, the New Life Club, on several important care and legacy

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Heidi Gantwerk, Holocaust, Opinion, San Diego County

Cape St. George Island Lighthouse and the Jews

By Jerry Klinger Touristing — better known as cultural travel, especially historical travel to see the places of events, and meaning to the American experience, preferably without resentful teenagers — is great. A fun thing to do in Florida is to visit historical lighthouses. There are big ones, short one, white ones, red ones, and

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USA

A Recent Stay in a Local Hospital Overwhelmed and Understaffed

By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Just before the holidays, I was looking for some ideas for my next column when I started feeling unusually tired. A blood draw at the clinic showed an unexpected loss of forty percent of my hemoglobin requiring a trip to the ER. Now I had my

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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust Survivors Use Artificial Intelligence to Keep Stories Alive

Published by Reuters UK By Rami Amichay BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (Reuters) – Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi-allied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by a lost sandal which made her miss her place on a passenger ship shortly before it was bombed. A lifetime

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