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Commentary How the right hijacked Jewish resistance to squash dissent Mahmoud Khalil and the Purim story By Katherine P. Blumstein Clinical Psychologist Published March 15, 2025 6:00AM (EDT) ...
Conversely, Jewish resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was against Germans soldiers, not Catholic Poles, who were most often onlookers.
Apart from maybe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish resistance during the war generally isn’t well known. There were uprisings in other ghettos too.
Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily. Because men could so easily be identified as Jews, women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance ...
Author to speak on Jewish resistance fighters A Holocaust survivor, she tells how some defied the Nazis. BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer Apr 18, 2009 0 ...
Jonathan Kirsch is book editor of The Jewish Journal. His most recent book, “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris,” was ...
They waved palm branches — symbols of Jewish resistance to occupation since the Maccabean revolt — and cried out “Hosanna!” which means “Save us.” Save us from a system of oppression ...
A Hollywood fixer in the series Ray Donovan. A Jewish resistance fighter in the film Defiance. A heavyweight boxer-twice--in the films Jakob the Liar and Chuck. Actor, writer, director, and producer ...
When Ed Zwick appeared at a November screening of his new film, "Defiance," he quoted some lines from a poem by W. H. Auden called "September 1, 1939": ...
But according to Matthew Bussy, PJFM’s program director, it was decided this year that the moment called for something different: The first-ever Jewish Resilience Film and Media Series, which is set ...