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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lilith.org | Elliot Kukla
INVENTION XX (2022), COURTESY OF LYNNE AVADENKA Rabbi Elliot Kukla • Age 49 // Author and faculty at SVARA: a traditionally radical yeshiva, CaliforniaAt home, we have just started introducing the concept of the Holocaust to our child, which we hadn’t before. I’m a second generation survivor, and in my Holocaust education I was really introduced to the Holocaust as a very singular experience.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
portside.org | Elliot Kukla
Rabbi Is Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza – How I’m Honoring My Dad, a Holocaust Survivor Published October 17, 2024 My dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking toward them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily. “Take the baby.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
atmos.earth | Elliot Kukla
10.07.2024 On the anniversary of October 7, after a year of death and destruction, Rabbi Elliot Kukla outlines how the suffering of the Jewish past can ignite empathy for Palestinian losses today.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
time.com | Elliot Kukla
IdeasApril 22, 2024 2:37 PM EDTKukla is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace rabbinical council and author based in Oakland, CA“This is the bread of affliction that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. All who are hungry should come and eat, anyone who is in need should come and partake of the Pesach sacrifice.” So begins the Ha Lachma Anya, the declaration that is recited at the beginning of the storytelling section of the Passover Seder.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Elliot Kukla
People look at damaged buildings and vehicles after an Israeli attack, in Gaza City, April 22, 2024. Credit - Dawoud Abo Alkas—Anadolu/Getty Images“This is the bread of affliction that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. All who are hungry should come and eat, anyone who is in need should come and partake of the Pesach sacrifice.” So begins the Ha Lachma Anya, the declaration that is recited at the beginning of the storytelling section of the Passover Seder.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
vogue.co.uk | Elliot Kukla
My dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking toward them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily. “Take the baby. Pretend you don’t know me.” Lily turned away and averted her eyes, but in her peripheral vision, she watched as her young, handsome husband was abducted.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
teenvogue.com | Elliot Kukla
My dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking towards them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily, “take the baby. Pretend you don’t know me.” Lily obeyed: she turned away and averted her eyes.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Elliot Kukla
My dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking towards them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily, “take the baby. Pretend you don’t know me.” Lily obeyed: she turned away and averted her eyes.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Elliot Kukla
B. Ever HannaMy dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking towards them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily, “take the baby. Pretend you don’t know me.” Lily obeyed: she turned away and averted her eyes.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Elliot Kukla
B. Ever HannaMy dad was a Jewish baby born into Nazi-occupied Brussels in January 1942. When he was six weeks old, my grandfather Max and my grandmother Lily were out for a stroll with my infant father in a baby carriage. Max saw SS officers walking towards them, and he knew that they were coming to arrest him. “Turn around,” Max said to Lily, “take the baby. Pretend you don’t know me.” Lily obeyed: she turned away and averted her eyes.
