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French railroad inks deal with Yad Vashem to research deportations
France's state railroad signed an agreement with Yad Vashem to further the research into the deportation of Jews from France during the Holocaust.
The tie that binds: Author discusses keeping families close despite distance
As Americans become more affluent, mobile and educated, opportunities for school, work, career and living or traveling abroad have expanded and many find themselves miles or oceans apart from their family of origin.
Basketball / Final Four / Ashdod does it again
City's women's team won the double, now the male hoopsters have qualified for the final. Next up: Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Histadrut sees big turnout in vote for union leadership
More than half a million Israelis, members of the Histadrut, were eligible to vote in the election, which has the incumbent, Ofer Eini facing challenger MK Eitan Cabel, a former Labor Party chairman.
West Tisbury man's parents honored for WWII heroism
West Tisbury resident Sig van Raan's parents, Gerard and Gerda van Raan, were honored posthumously by The Consulate General of Israel in New York and the American Society of Yad Vashem "for their selfless and courageous actions during the Holocaust, saving Jewish lives."
U.S. megafires put down to human activity
DALLAS, May 16 (UPI) -- Today's mega forest fires in the U.S. Southwest are truly unusual compared to the long-term record and may be the result of human activity, researchers say.
Admiral resident & Highline Medical Center anesthesiologist has father's Dutch rescuers honored
An anesthesiologist at Highline Medical Center, Burien, since 1988, Michael de Haan is used to research. But his recent work was very personal, with a successful outcome. The patient, you might say, was his father, Jozeph, now 89. Thanks to two brave, and loving, Dutch families who saved his life during World War II, Jozeph plays tennis, works out, and shops with friends in Melbourne, Australia ...
From commemorations to celebrations, South Florida Jews on dream mission to Israel
More than 700 Jews from South Florida are spending 10 days in Israel as part of the largest Mega Mission to visit the country in more than a decade.
Reading names into the night
Dozens of area residents gathered on the eve of the internationally recognized Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the Gazebo on the campus of Flagler College to read the names of victims of the evil that befell European Jewry from 1933 through the conclusion of World War II in May, 1945. Thousands of names were read from lists provided by Yad VaShem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem ...
Kibbutz searching for lost descendants of Holocaust hero
In a far-off corner of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, just miles from the Gaza border and down a dirt road, Wladyslaw Kowalski rests with his people. Like him, most of those buried in the kibbutz cemetery were immigrants from Poland.
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