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Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson.
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Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson.
The JFS held a community event Friday afternoon in observance of local Holocaust survivors in the region.
Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners have commemorated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II.
The 97-year-old Camden County resident is one of the last two living survivors of the concentration camp.
"Names, Not Numbers" is a national oral history film project and class curriculum that tasks students with interviewing Holocaust survivors in taped interviews.
Brandon Goldner reports.
Stockton University's Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center is digitizing its archive of survivor stories.
Ryan Hughes reports.
The old steel rails might be rusty but they were once part of a death machine unlike the world has ever known.
Dozens of high school students gathered at St. Joseph's University for the 41st Annual Youth Symposium on the Holocaust.
Reporters in the briefing room offered the Holocaust as an example of chemical weapons use.
The special project turns their class into a documentary film.
A survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp has died.
They shared their stories at Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History Sunday.
Chris discusses Mike Huckabee's comments on the Iranian nuclear deal, a Daily Beast article revealing allegations of rape against Donald Trump, and the first female coach in the NFL.
A tenured professor at a Pennsylvania university who previously questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel's destruction is now making incendiary remarks about Jews, women and gays.
While The Diary of a Young Girl is a story from World War II of hate, discrimination and torture, it's about a young girl growing up.
Dr. Murray Kohn was 12-years-old when the Nazis took him and about 80 relatives from their Polish ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.
Eighty-seven-year-old Johann Breyer was accused of being a Nazi "Death's Head Guard" at Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp. The camp is responsible for murdering more than 200,000 Jews during World War II.
The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia has sent a letter to Temple University expressing concern over the posts of an adjunct professor on a listserv questioning the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
State representative Brendan Boyle (D-Phila.) says a mandatory Holocaust curriculum is needed because of the growing notion that the Holocaust was a hoax.
Some area Jewish families played host this weekend to a group of school kids from Tennessee who came all the way to Philadelphia to learn about the Jewish life and history.
As the world watched images of families dying from chemical weapons in Syria, a Jewish woman from Boston who survived the Holocaust was asking herself how this could happen again.
Luigi Scotto, consul general of Italy in Philadelphia, says it took four hours to read off the nearly 8,000 names of Italian Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Former Atlanta Braves reliever John Rocker compares Barack Obama to Hitler.
The timeline for recovery is seven to nine months, according to the Phillies.
Photos by HughE Dillon.
Evan Gershkovic, a graduate from Princeton High School in Mercer County in 2010, was detained by Russia for "spying in the interests of the American government," according to the FSB.
The duo is accused of a six-week-long burglary spree that targeted mom and pop businesses from Montgomery County to Philadelphia.
Here is what is likely to come next, according to a former prosecutor and the typical process for criminal defendants in New York.
The case stems from a "hush money" payment made just days before Trump was elected president in 2016.
The timeline for recovery is seven to nine months, according to the Phillies.
Evan Gershkovic, a graduate from Princeton High School in Mercer County in 2010, was detained by Russia for "spying in the interests of the American government," according to the FSB.
The duo is accused of a six-week-long burglary spree that targeted mom and pop businesses from Montgomery County to Philadelphia.
Here is what is likely to come next, according to a former prosecutor and the typical process for criminal defendants in New York.
The timeline for recovery is seven to nine months, according to the Phillies.
The duo is accused of a six-week-long burglary spree that targeted mom and pop businesses from Montgomery County to Philadelphia.
"These men and women drop whatever they're doing when the incident happens," the program manager of PA Task Force 1 said.
The researchers say some continue to have problems with thinking, problem-solving, or regulating behavior and are often not supported after initial treatment which can make those issues worse.
Aaron Nola, the 29-year-old right-hander making his sixth and maybe final opening-day start for the Phillies, also allowed five runs in 3 2/3 innings.
Evan Gershkovic, a graduate from Princeton High School in Mercer County in 2010, was detained by Russia for "spying in the interests of the American government," according to the FSB.
From December 2022 to the beginning of March, there have been 14 large whale strandings just in New York and New Jersey, and in the last month, nine dolphins have washed up along the Jersey Shore.
Approximately 1.7 million residents applied for the state's ANCHOR program by the Feb. 28 deadline.
The Boardwalk in Wildwood is almost ready for the summer season.
"We're getting towards a tipping point," Robin Burstein, deputy director of the ADL of Philadelphia, said. "But we're not at the tipping point yet, and there is hope."
A 73-year-old vet proudly wears his Purple Heart cap with no regrets from the past because he says it created a bond he cherishes with two fellow Vietnam vets.
Local organizations are working to make the Jewish community safer amidst a surge in antisemitic incidents.
Friday morning will be a little soggy, and some rain to the south is expected later in the day.
The tacos come in a warm flour tortilla with eggs, cheddar cheese, lime crema and the option to add bacon.
It is a reunion some five months in the making, and one first responders say would not have happened if it was not for CPR training.
The researchers say some continue to have problems with thinking, problem-solving, or regulating behavior and are often not supported after initial treatment which can make those issues worse.
This study adds to a growing body of research that says animals aren't harmful to a child's immune system and previous studies have shown kids with pets have fewer seasonal allergies.
The U.S. FDA on Wednesday approved the overdose-reversing drug to be sold without a prescription.
The decision means Narcan can be available at convenience and grocery stores, but its price isn't clear.
The research review in Circulation looked at the combined results of 124 studies with more than 50,000 people.
Elkhorn Valley Packing is recalling the beef chuck after shipping it to states from Connecticut to Pennsylvania.
Julian Taylor was born weighing just over one pound, but he was a fighter.
Sneaker company plans to close hundreds of in-mall shops before opening more standalone stores.
The San Francisco regional bank's stock had plunged by a third on Thursday on concerns about its financial stability.
The national highway safety agency says a faulty brake fluid hose can lead to longer stopping distances, "increasing the risk of a crash."
The transit agency will test full-size gates on the Market-Frankford Line, at the 13th Street and 34th Street stations.
The transportation authority cited rising costs and inflation for the pause.
SEPTA said the construction will "enhance the customer experience" at the Ridge Avenue bus station.
Officials say the road will be closed for "an extended period of time."
The bridge and road are being closed to allow open movement and space for a new fender replacement project.
The timeline for recovery is seven to nine months, according to the Phillies.
Aaron Nola, the 29-year-old right-hander making his sixth and maybe final opening-day start for the Phillies, also allowed five runs in 3 2/3 innings.
MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players into the game as playable characters.
The Phillies are no longer dancing on their own. They have their sights on Broad Street.
Morandini simply just wants to watch new Phillies shortstop Trea Turner play -- just like the rest of Philadelphia.
Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson had sued the actress for more than $300,000 over a 2016 collision on a ski slope.
MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players into the game as playable characters.
The Boardwalk in Wildwood is almost ready for the summer season.
For the past half-century Genoa City, Wisconsin, has been the setting for high drama, marital gyrations and genre traditions, in TV's most-watched soap opera.
Majors' criminal defense lawyer said he is "completely innocent and provably the victim of an altercation with a woman he knows."
Ukee Washington reports.
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Julian Taylor was born weighing just over one pound, but he was a fighter.
Mayfair Elementary School is the only one in the School District of Philadelphia helping students explore vocational programs.
PECO is providing real-life experience for young people interested in working in energy.
Ultimately KenCrest West Director Josie Jones hopes these seniors will return one day and run their own classroom.
Patriot Polling is a non-partisan organization that uses a third-party cold-calling system to survey voters across the nation.
Bill Kelly reports.
It will be open seven days a week from April 21 to July 16.
A $250,000 grant from the Eagles and NFL will pay for the makeover.
The closure could last several weeks.
U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovic graduate from Princeton high School in Mercer County, New Jersey, in 2010.