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7/23/12 Round Up AM Edition

By Jspace Staff on 7/23/2012 at 10:55 AM

Categories: Round Up, Sports, World

7/23/12 Round Up AM Edition

Janina Dawidowicz shares her story of being a 9-year-old in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. [BBC]

Two Swiss hospitals announce that they will suspend circumcision of infants unless it’s medically required. [ynet]

Vandals destroy 57 tombs containing the remains of 250 people at a Jewish cemetery in Hungary. [Hurriyet Daily News]

Jews in the US support gun control, but the political debate ignores them. [Haaretz]

Russian opera singer Evgeny Nitkin withdraws from the Bayreuth Opera Festival because of Nazi tattoos on her chest and arm. [St. Louis Jewish Light]

The JCC’s Berman Center for the Performing Arts will host a screening of “Jews in Baseball: An American Love Story” followed by a tour of Jewish sports memorabilia. [Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hills Patch]

Former Dodgers Shawn Green and Gabe Kapler come out of retirement to play in the World Baseball Classic on Team Israel. [Los Angeles Times]

Are Jews white? [Discover Magazine]

  • Sports memorabilia
  • Vandalized tombs
  • Janusz Korczak is remembered
  • Janina's father Marek, with his sisters
  • Janina Dawidowicz
  • Circumcision in Switzerland
  • Janina and her mother

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