Miss France 2021 — the 91st edition of the French national beauty pageant — took place on Dec. 19, 2020. The winner of the competition was Amandine Petit, who represented the region of Normandy. The first runner-up was April Benayoum, 21, a model and winner of the title Miss Provence. After Benayoum alluded to her…
Taylor Nichols, M.D., a young Jewish doctor, was confronted with an ethical dilemma in the Northern California emergency room where he works: He was called upon to treat a seriously ill patient with multiple tattooed swastikas and other hate symbols on his body. The man implored Dr. Nichols, “Don’t let me die, doc.” A heartwarming…
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (Sept. 29, 1904 — Feb. 16, 1973) was a German Nazi (reportedly out of nationalistic, not antisemitic reasons) diplomat living in occupied Denmark. When he learned the Nazis were planning to deport the country’s Jews to concentration camps, he alerted the Danes and arranged with Sweden to give them refuge, As a…
Sir Nicholas George Winton (May 19, 1909 – July 1, 2015) was a banker from the U.K. who helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape what would have been certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Winton arranged for the youngsters to leave Czechoslovakia and make their way to Britain. In…
Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (Jan. 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) served as vice-consul for Japan in the Lithuanian city of Kovno. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped some 6,000 Jews flee certain death by issuing transit visas to them, enabling them to travel through Japanese territory to safety. He issued the visas in…
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 73, recently penned a powerful op-ed piece…
Mohammed Abdulkarim (Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa), 55, is Secretary General of the Muslim World League and President of the International Islamic Halal Organization. Previously, he was Minister of Justice of Saudi Arabia. Abdulkarim is an ardent foe of inter-religious intolerance — including antisemitism. He was awarded the first-ever Combat Anti-Semitism Award at a ceremony…
Jennifer Teege, 49, is a mixed-race German writer whose maternal grandfather was Amon Göth, an infamous Nazi concentration camp commander portrayed in the 1993 film Schindler’s List. When she discovered that fact about a decade ago, it left her emotionally traumatized. In 2015, Teege wrote The New York Times best-seller My Grandfather Would Have Shot…
In August 2019, controversy swirled around a new Holocaust educational and memorial center proposed for London’s Victoria Tower Gardens. Opponents contended it would ruin the views to key city sites. Many leaders endorsed the plan — among them Sadiq Khan, 49, the British capital’s Muslim mayor. The endorsement was not a total surprise: Khan’s first…
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