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Mickey Rabinov

Mickey Rabinov, Hebrew Language Coordinator

April 23, 2020

This 100 year-old tea cup belonged to my great grandmother, who handed it down to my grandmother in Austria, and then to my...

Joelle Keene

Mrs. Joelle Keene, Music and Journalism teacher

April 23, 2020

My father, Richard Cohen of blessed memory, was a U.S. Air Force navigator during World War II, and when the war was over he went...

Adina Kurzban

Adina Kurzban, ’22

April 23, 2020

This is a hat that my great-grandfather made. He escaped the war and went to Canada, where he became a furrier. Although he escaped,...

Tobey Lee

Tobey Lee, ’20

April 23, 2020

Although I don’t have any direct family members that were impacted by the Shoah, my family has done its part in ensuring that...

Pavel Lieb

Pavel Lieb, Science Chair

April 23, 2020

This is a photo of my family from Belostok, Poland, circa 1910.  My Great Grandpa Yuliy Skurnik is third from the right in...

Dr. Sheila Keiter

Dr. Sheila Keiter, Judaic Studies

April 23, 2020

My family on both sides came to America before World War II, so we were spared the destruction of the Holocaust. This is a photo...

Emily Klausner

Emily Klausner, ’22

April 23, 2020

These are my Great-Great-Grandmother Sara's Silver Candlesticks. Sara and her mother had to escape Poland and their home within...

Josh Glettner

Josh Glettner, ’21

April 23, 2020

The picture displays my great grandfather, Emil Katz who was in both the Hungrian labor battalions and the Wu Tang Clan. He was...

Neima Fax

Neima Fax, ’20

April 23, 2020

My maternal great grandmother, Klara Birnberg and her siblings, found an abandoned Torah right after the war on their way back...

What songs have you been listening to? Tell us here!

April 17, 2020

Loading… The BP wants to know what music people have been listening to while stuck in quarantine. Using the responses to...

Joker

February 12, 2020

Though it may follow the life of the infamous supervillain, Joker breaks the mold of what a comic book  film can be. The...

1917

February 12, 2020

Two British soldiers go on a journey to save their comrades in the World War I story 1917. The film’s director, Sam Mendes,...

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