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‘We Looked On Him As A God’

04/10/2012 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer
Sally Frishberg, leading the fight to have Stanislaw Grocholski.

Sometime in the summer of 1942, as the Nazi noose tightened around the Jews of Poland, Stanislaw Grocholski, a poor farmer who lived in a small village in the southeast part of the country, heard a disturbing rumor — some members of a Jewish family in the region, an old friend among them, had been spotted in one of the nearby fields.

Grocholski, a church-going Catholic, knew what the rumor meant — the Jews had escaped from their nearby town, Urzejowice, on the eve of a “resettlement” order and were hiding to save their lives.

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Reluctant Hero

04/10/2012 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer
Survivor Fred Friedman saved Hungarian Jews during the war by impersonating a member of the Gestapo. MICHAEL DATIKASH

Slovakian-born Holocaust survivor Fred Friedman, who has lived in the same corner house in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens for 46 years, will turn 90 on Monday, a few days before Yom HaShoah. And if this landmark birthday is like past ones, the mazel tov calls Friedman receives will include a special group of well-wishers: fellow survivors who were saved by Friedman from the Nazi genocide.

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French Attack Shakes N.Y. Community; Security Alerts Here

03/20/2012 | Adam Dickter and JTA
Relatives and mourners attend a ceremony at the Ozar Hatorah school.

Yet another warning for local Jewish organizations to increase their vigilance due to events overseas went out this week, as the gruesome murder of four French Jews, three of them children, sent shockwaves around the world.

The New York Police Department had a visible presence outside major institutions such as large Manhattan synagogues, prompting some other organizations to demand the same level of protection.

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Peres Launches Facebook Page At Company Headquarters

03/07/2012

(JTA) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres launched a Facebook page during a visit with company founder Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters in California.

As part of the launch Tuesday, Peres held a live chat with web surfers from around the world. His page calls on people from around the world to be his friend and "speak up" for peace.

Peres was to give a public speech Tuesday night at San Francisco'sTemple Emanu-El.  He also is slated this week to tour the headquarters of Google as the guest of co-founder Sergey Brin.

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New Delhi Police Arrest Bombing Suspect

03/07/2012

(JTA) -- Police in New Delhi arrested a suspect in connection with a car bomb attack in the Indian city that injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat.

An Indian journalist, Syed Mohammed Kazmi, was arrested Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. A police investigation showed that he had been in contact with the man who police believe stuck a bomb on the car while riding by on a motorcycle and remains at large.

Police said Kazmi claims to work for an Iranian news agency and reportedly searched his house over two days, but they have not said what evidence was found.

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New Iran Moves Fuel Fresh Debate

03/06/2012 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer
Any distance between them? President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at this week’s summit.

Just a day after Monday’s inconclusive U.S.-Israeli summit meeting aimed at forging a unified stance on Iran, the Islamic republic decided to open for inspection a secret military site believed key to its nuclear weapons program and the world powers agreed to restart talks with Iran aimed at ending that disputed program.

But the actions appeared to do little to salve those who fear Iran is determined to develop a nuclear bomb at all costs.

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