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On this fifth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this fifth document sent to my grandfather Jonas Noreika. It was in response to an order he wrote on August 22, 1941 (Day 3) demanding that all Jews and half-Jews in the district of Šiauliai (of which he was in command) be sent to Žagaré in a ghetto.
A REFUGEE who fled persecution will speak about the most difficult period in his life, when he shares his story of struggle and survival to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The moving talk will form part of Durham County Council’s annual events to remember the victims of genocides throughout the world. International Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated annually on January 27, which coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. The council normally marks the day with live events for schools and residents but, due to coronavirus, is hosting this year’s event online.
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Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London, with signs protesting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, September 4, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images/ via JTA /SUE)
JTA When is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel?
Anti-Semitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But what about when that hatred is expressed through rhetoric about the Jewish state? Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism?
Those questions have divided American Jews in recent years and are continuing to do so, as of last week.
Establishment Jewish groups want US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to treat some anti-Israel speech as anti-Semitism. Progressive Jewish groups disagree, worried about chilling or criminalizing legitimate criticism of Israeli policy.
Jan 19, 2021
“The horrific fate of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust is no secret. Nor is the highly significant role played in the murders by local collaborators from all strata of Lithuanian society,” famous Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff wrote in The Jerusalem Post.
There was a certain irony here!
Last year being the 300th anniversary of the Vilna Gaon’s birth, the Lithuanian Parliament dedicated 2020 the year to commemorate this world famous commentator of Torah and Talmud and the country’s 700-year-old Jewish history. Yet it was Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, commonly known as the Vilna Gaon, who said, “The goal of the redemption is the redemption of truth.”