Gary Shapiro
ARTICLES BY: Gary Shapiro
New Children’s Book Highlights Heroism of Anne Frank
We can all aspire to be heroes. That is the lesson of an illustrated book series that recounts contributions that a wide range of individuals have...
New Book Tells Tale of Black US Soldiers Who Took in Jewish Holocaust Survivors After Liberating Nazi Camps
Lieutenant John L. Withers Sr. knew he was breaking military rules but did so anyway. He took in two young Jewish Polish Holocaust survivors just after...
As Chaos Erupted During George Floyd Protests in Los Angeles, Local Jewish Security Group Mobilized to Protect Fearful Community
As unrest, violence, and rampant looting flared up in Los Angeles last weekend in the wake of the death of the unarmed George Floyd in...
With Class Stuck at Home for COVID-19, Jewish Day School Brings Mobile Graduation Truck, Ceremony to 85 Student Homes
COVID-19 has sidelined graduation ceremonies around the country, but not so for Yeshivat Noam, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in Paramus, New Jersey. Rabbi Chaim...
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Hatzalah Volunteer Emergency Medical Services Raise Unprecedented $15 Million
Dozens of branches of Hatzalah emergency medical services, which operate volunteer first responder networks in Jewish communities around the world, collectively raised an unprecedented $15...
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, Holocaust Educator
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, who was the first Director of Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., died April 4 of the...
David Toren, 94, Pursued and Reclaimed Nazi Stolen Art
David Toren, who tracked down his family’s art looted by the Nazis, died of COVID-19 on April 19. The New York resident was an attorney and...
Ben Raymond, 108, London’s Oldest Person
Ben Raymond, London’s oldest person, died at age 108 on April 20. According to the UK-based Jewish Chronicle, the cause was recorded as coronavirus, although...
Henri Kichka, 94, Belgian Holocaust Survivor
Henri Kichka, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from Belgium, died April 25 from the coronavirus. On Facebook, his son Michel, a noted cartoonist, said...
Suzy Levi, 65, First Israeli Medical Professional to Die of COVID-19
A nurse, Suzy Levi, who is the first Israeli medical worker to succumb to the coronavirus, died on April 26. She worked at the Sheba Medical...
Cantor Alvin Donald, 92, Singer With Operatic Voice
What everyone agrees on is that Cantor Alvin Donald had a sonorous voice. They recall his operatic vocal chords, ones which he used for about...
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, 43, Spiritual Leader in Hanover, Germany
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, the Chabad rabbi in Hanover, Germany, died on April 24. He arrived in Hanover 15 years ago, and helped to reshape the...
Yakup Barouh, 75, Turkish Jewish Community Leader and Businessman
Yakup Barouh, who served as president of the Jewish community in Turkey in the early 1990s, has died. He was active in communal affairs for...
Benjamin Levin, 93, Partisan ‘Avenger’ Who Fought the Nazis
Benjamin Levin, a resistance fighter who battled the Nazis, died April 13. Joining at age 14, he was the last surviving of a group known as...
