Cathryn J. Prince

Jan 15, 2025 | hadassahmagazine.org | Cathryn J. Prince

Email Print Mollie Bowman’s grandmother spoke often about how, after surviving Auschwitz, she met her future husband, an American soldier, at a displaced persons camp. When he proposed, he gifted her parachute fabric to make a wedding dress and vowed to meet her in pre-state Israel, where she was headed. Because she could only travel to the Holy Land with the clothes on her back, she sewed the fabric into her coat’s lining.

Jan 10, 2025 | qoshe.com | Cathryn J. Prince

Dec 10, 2024 | forward.com | Cathryn J. Prince

Roughly translated, the Hebrew word for postcard means revealed or uncovered. It's a fitting definition for the Israeli artist Zeev Englemayer's " Daily Postcard " project, which lays bare his emotional response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack.

Oct 31, 2024 | timesofisrael.com | Cathryn J. Prince

NEW YORK — In 1969, as protests seized the Columbia University Morningside campus, student activists frequently charged that the Vietnam War was akin to “the genocide of the Holocaust.” Meanwhile, some Jewish faculty who were Holocaust survivors called the students “academic Hitler Youth.” The phenomenon resembles contemporary protests that have gripped American college campuses since the Hamas-led terror onslaught of October 7, 2023, which triggered the ongoing war in Gaza after 1,200 people...

Oct 31, 2024 | combatantisemitism.org | Yossi Lempkowicz |Konstantin Eggert |Emanuel Fabian |Cathryn J. Prince

In Chicago this past weekend, an Orthodox Jewish man walking to synagogue for Shabbat services was shot by a Muslim assailant who later exchanged fire with police while reportedly shouting, “Allahu Akbar.” Local Jewish community leaders have expressed outrage that hate crime charges were not filed against the suspect, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failure to recognize the antisemitic nature of the incident was also denounced. Antisemitism in Chicago has not just been limited to violence.