When Eddie Jaku was a teenager growing up in Germany, he believed his native country to be the most civilized place on Earth. He soon found out how wrong he was. After being captured and brutalized by the Nazis, he was shipped off to Buchenwald and later to Auschwitz. Jaku eventually escaped an infamous “death…
On Dec. 8, 2020, a webinar was held on the timely topic “Antisemitism in America — How Bad Is It?” The webinar was presented by ADL Connecticut, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. The speakers were Mark Weitzman and Kenneth Jacobson. Weitzman is Director of Government Affairs and of the…
Chitayat created a video titled “I’m That Jew” and gave a Ted Talk about the story behind the video and the response it elicited.
The Nazi regime in Germany constructed thousands of concentration camps, but perhaps…
Jerry Springer (76) hosted his eponymous and raucous tabloid television program, The Jerry Springer Show, from 1991 to 2018. Currently, he presides over a new courtroom program called Judge Jerry. (Springer is also an attorney.) On a more serious and personal note, Springer was featured on the American television genealogy series Who Do You Think…
Today there are thought to be more than 150,000 Jews living in Germany -– making the country home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Many among the new German Jews immigrated to the country from the former Soviet Union and Eastern European states. Just as recent years have seen a major upsurge in…
“Anti-Semitism in France” is an excellent — and moving and disturbing — documentary about the rise of Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish violence in today’s France. It focuses on a retired French policeman (“The Kosher Cop”) who moved to Israel because of what he saw taking place throughout France. (Tens of thousands of French Jews have immigrated…
“Projections of Life: Jewish Life Before World War II,” which is linked below, is an eye-opening look at Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust. The video consists of rare film clips that show a range of Jewish communities and life situations. We found it riveting — if difficult to watch — and extremely moving.…
Dr. Philip Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition, he is co-director of the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making, an affiliate of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility. In his TedTalk “Why do we…
“Antisemitism in Europe,” linked below, is a no-holds-barred documentary produced by…
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube.