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Tonight: A Special Evening Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Murder of Leon Klinghoffer Aboard the Achille Lauro

An Evening of Conversation & Stories

On
 October 8, 1985, terrorists representing the Palestinian Liberation  
Organization stormed the Achille Lauro cruise ship, murdering Leon
Klinghoffer, who was vacationing with his  wife and friends. His tragic
death became a rallying cry in the fight  against terrorism. In the
ensuing years the story was co-opted and  retold through the…

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Emancipation and the Jews of Metz, France
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History

“The means of making the Jews happy and useful? This is it: stop making them unhappy and useless. Give them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you’ve denied them against all divine and human laws.” This was Zalkind Hourwitz’s…

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