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Torah

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Newsmakers

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Columns

Universal Lessons From the Holocaust

We must ask ourselves: What have we learned, and what must we do?

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Irwin Cotler

With Holocaust Remembrance Day coinciding with other signifcant anniversaries this year, says renowned human rights activist Irwin Cotler, we must ask ourselves: What have we learned, and what must we do?

Film & Television

Cigarmakers Rolled Papers, Did Miracles

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Eric Berger

Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust , a documentary which airs on WHYY April 7 and 8, tells the story of Jewish brothers with Philadelphia connections who saw a way to use their cigar business and political connections to save German and Austrian Jews at the start of World War II.

Torah

Aaron, in Despair, Chooses the Blessing of Silence

SHEMINI, Leviticus 9:1-11:47

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Rabbi Adam Zeff

During the holiday of Pesach that we just completed, we repeatedly encountered the contrast between the joy of going from slavery to freedom and the trauma of that transition — a trauma that stayed with the Israelites through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and beyond.

Theater

Butterfly Project Expands Its Wings

By:

Greg Salisbury

When the curtain goes up on The Butterfly Project at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater on April 8, the production will have come full circle.

Local

Reconciling, While They Still Have the Chance

By:

Eric Berger

Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, founded in the 1960s by German Protestants, sends young German volunteers to 13 countries each year where they help the kind of people who were persecuted during the war — Jews, minority groups, the disabled, homosexuals — in an effort to atone for the genocide committed by the Nazis.