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Designer T-Shirts Cause ‘Divine’ Conflict With Kabbalah CentreIn the names of God, one fashion designer is producing T-shirts and skirting conflict with the famed Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre.Ayelet Aviv, an Israeli artist from Mitzpe Ramon in Israel, recently went solo with her line of Kabbalah-inspired T-shirts after an alleged collaborative agreement with The Kabbalah Centre…Read more

Receptive Ears Hear About the Shoah in Poverty-Stricken IowaDavid Wendt teaches ninth-grade English at Keokuk High School, a public high school in Iowa where the 700 students are almost all of German descent. The town has 30 churches for a population that barely exceeds 10,000. Most of the students have never left the town — or met a Jew. Wendt, who is known for the picture of Jerusalem that hangs in his…Read more

Two Holocaust-Ed Teachers Find That Empathy Is Often Born of AdversityWhen New York City transplant Barbara Pordy began teaching Holocaust education in rural southern New Jersey five years ago, she had no idea her job would require instructing parents as well as students.Pordy, who lost several family members in the Holocaust, was taken aback when a young student asked her what she was doing for the spring holidays.…Read more

Returning to the Scene of the Crime, Camera in HandGleefully puffing on a cigarette while telling Jewish jokes, Marceline Loridan-Ivens radiates a vivacious, youthful presence. But she did not come to New York simply to crack jokes. This 75-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, with a will as fiery as her red hair, came to the city recently from her home in Paris to introduce the screening…Read more