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The Pearl Project Picks Up the Story Where the Slain Reporter Left Off

By Alex Weisler

For two years, journalism students at Georgetown University worked tirelessly to separate fact from fiction in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and to finish the story he was pursuing when Pakistani extremists kidnapped and murdered him.Read More

‘Names, Not Numbers’: Listening to the Stories Told by Holocaust Survivors

By Alex Weisler

Tova Rosenberg knows about stories. Sitting in her Yeshiva University office in New York City’s Washington Heights, the creator of the Holocaust education project “Names, Not Numbers” recounted a student’s interview with the son of a Holocaust survivor.Read More

Muslims and Jews From Europe Size Up U.S. as a Model for Coexistence

By Alex Weisler

Can visits to Ellis Island, Yankee Stadium, Manhattan’s 96th Street Mosque, Yeshiva University, the White House and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — among other American landmarks — give Jewish and Muslim leaders from Europe a model that not only will help them combat antisemitism and Islamophobia, but also instill within them a vision for religious integration and interfaith dialogue?Read More

Offering TLC for Jewish Cemeteries

By Alex Weisler

Gary Katz has seen the future, and he desperately wants to prevent it from happening. He predicted that “every cemetery that’s filled with Jews” and “looks nice” now will one day “look like Bayside,” a graveyard in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens that fell into disrepair and has become the focus of a years-long legal fight. “That’s what CAJAC is really about.”Read More

Claims Conference Picks Executive VP

By Alex Weisler

The Claims Conference announced July 15 that Gregory Schneider will become the group’s new executive vice president.Read More


 

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