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Mar 30, 2016

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Black author describes day she learned grandfather ran a Nazi camp

Jennifer Teege was in a library in Hamburg, Germany, one day in 2008 when she randomly pulled a book off a shelf. The book revealed that Teege, who is black, is the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, commandant of a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. On Thursday,…

Mar 28, 2016

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The J is Here to Stay: A Response to the Israelite Article

The Jewish holiday of Purim is a time of jokes and jest. Many celebrate in costume, bake Hamentaschen cookies and play jokes on their friends. On March 24, The American Israelite ran, in a special Purim section of the paper, two hoax articles claiming that the Mayerson JCC was going to…

Mar 25, 2016

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Op-ed: Seeing Cuba through my mother's eyes, 50 years after she fled

If you knew my mother, Cila Gold, you’d know that going back to Cuba this past February was going to be an emotional experience. She fled Cuba at 23 with my newly born sister, but no possessions. My father had left Cuba months before. She had never been back. Fifty years later, she…

Mar 23, 2016

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Florida Reunion Highlights Current Aid to Jews in Need in Ukraine & FSU

Palm Beach Gardens, FL March 6—On a beautiful balmy Sunday evening in March, sixty Cincinnatians who live in Florida part-time recently reconnected with the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati at the home of Patsy and Barry Kohn in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. After catching up over…

Mar 18, 2016

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Living through the Holocaust and after

Stephanie Marks doesn’t consider her story to be remarkable. But the 90-year-old Jewish survivor of Nazi-overrun Europe is among a diminishing number of those who can tell the story of that time from first-hand experience.