Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations. Speak up.”
The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries.
The grogger belonged to the late Marcel Micenmacher, who survived the Holocaust with few other objects to serve as mementos from his parents, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.
Today, amid the passage of time, we are once again witness to an all too familiar and worrying trend of antisemitism and ignorance.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared on her Telegram channel claims by a Russian language Youtube channel that Yad Vashem had been hiding material on the Holocaust in Ukraine.
As Israel marked 100 days since the Hamas attack on October 7, Yad Vashem held a special event to mark the onslaught and show support for the abductees.
The statement specifically criticizes the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn for their alarming indifference.
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