No Longer The ‘Nazis’

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:11:54 +0000

Westchester/Bronx

Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

Eleven days in Germany provided an education for teachers who teach about the Holocaust. The group of 28 educators from Westchester and Rockland counties visited schools and memorials recently to observe how the genocide of World War II is taught in the land where it began.It was a trip marked by changes.Some of the teachers said their view of Germany — and of contemporary Germans — was changed by meetings with teachers and students.

The Last Word

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:59:06 +0000

Westchester/Bronx

Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

A former Westchester couple and their Torah scroll, each with roots in Russia, have new homes now. Edward and Renee Mendell, former residents of New Rochelle and South Salem, settled in London, Renee’s hometown, after Edward retired from the pharmaceuticals industry in 1986.They recently donated their own sefer Torah, which they serendipitously acquired in Israel, to the Jewish Family Congregation in South Salem.