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By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com A lone gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San Diego Saturday and opened fire on Jews celebrating the last day of Passover.  He killed one woman and wounded several others. For one family, this was not their first encounter with terrorism. The Dahan family left their…

By: Raymond Ibrahim – raymondibrahim.com Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, throughout World War I.  Then, in an attempt to wipe out as many Christians as possible, the Turks massacred approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000…

cbsnews.com Middlebury, Vt. — A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence, Middlebury College said. The Vermont liberal arts college said that it’s investigating under the terms of its faculty misconduct policy.…

By: Times of Israel Staff – timesofisrael.com Throngs of Jewish worshipers make traditional Passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem for semiannual ceremony held under heavy security https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-gather-at-western-wall-for-priestly-blessing/

By: Joan Nathan; New York Times-nytimes.com And the family’s personal recipe, so you can make it yourself. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/dining/golds-horseradish-recipe.html

By: Ilanit Chernick; Jerusalem Post – jpost.com Before the Holocaust, approximately one-third of Warsaw was Jewish. On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out, which was on the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover. German troops stormed the ghetto, intent on completing the deportation process within three days, yet were ambushed by…