Jews and Judaism

Margot Friedländer, Holocaust Survivor Who Found Her Voice, Dies at 103

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Margot Friedländer, Holocaust Survivor Who Found Her Voice, Dies at 103

Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor who spent more than 60 years in exile (as she saw it) in New York City before returning to Germany in 2010 and finding her voice as a champion of Holocaust remembrance — work that made her a celebrity to young Germans and landed her on the cover of German … Read more

Stargazing in a Cemetery, Where It’s Dark and Quiet

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Stargazing in a Cemetery, Where It’s Dark and Quiet

Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at amateur astronomers and a cemetery in Brooklyn that is giving them a permanent place to look up at the sky. We’ll also get details on a deal in Albany to weaken a law that mainly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas. “It seems incongruous, doesn’t … Read more