by Renee Ghert-Zand, J. Correspondent | J Weekly | When Charlotte Smith reads from the Torah at her bat mitzvah next month, she will be “holding history,” she says. The sefer Torah that Charlotte will hold and…
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Lib at Large: The story of a lost Holocaust Torah
By Paul Liberatore | Marin Independent Journal | UNTIL RECENTLY, members of the Jewish community at Alma Via, an assisted living home in San Rafael, were without a Torah, the five books that make up…
Rescued from Kristallnacht, a family Torah reaches a new generation
By Edmon J. Rodman | The Times of Israel | Hidden during the Holocaust but lost after the war, the scrolls would eventually be read at the bat mitzva of their savior’s granddaughter LOS ANGELES (JTA)…
Going Home Again ~ Postcards from Luedinghausen
by Edie Strauss Kodmur, ‘56 | Stanford Magazine | I was 3 years old when I left my hometown in Germany, but the fairy-tale town never really left me. As a child, I studied photographs of…
“We Were Ghosts” ~ Postcards from Luedinghausen
by Julie Ann Kodmur, ‘78 | Stanford Alumni Magazine | November 2008 Last June I spent five days in Luedinghausen, the tiny German town where my mother, Edie Strauss Kodmur, ’56, was born. In the picturesque…