Barbara Goldberg
By Barbara Goldberg
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Breaking News After 7 Decades, Auschwitz Survivors Still Meet Weekly at Brooklyn Synagogue
(Reuters) — In a little leather book, the kind some men use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. It has been 70 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where Abrams was taken at age 20…
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Breaking News Security Beefed Up After Fatal Police Shooting of ‘Kill the Jew’ Attacker at Chabad
(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
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Breaking News Image of Beheaded Journalist James Foley Pulled From Anti-Islam Subway Ads
(Reuters) — A photo of American journalist James Foley shortly before his beheading by the Islamic state militant group is being removed from anti-Islam advertisements appearing on Monday on 100 New York City buses and two subway stations. In response to a complaint from the Foley family, the advertisement is being altered to include an…
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