RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on October 17, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A full-scale replica of the rooms Anne Frank used to hide from Nazi occupiers during World War Two is heading to New York. The replica of the Anne Frank House museum, which is located in Amsterdam, is being built in the Netherlands and will be shipped across the Atlantic for a show titled “Anne Frank The Exhibition” at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. It will open on January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibition comes at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world and in the United States.
The Biden administration has upgraded the records of more than 800 military personnel who were discharged for violating the former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality. The move is the latest in a campaign by the administration to court LGBT voters in an election year. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered a review of cases of former service members who might have been affected by the Clinton-era policy. The records of the 800 former service members have been upgraded to “honorably discharged”.
The United States has fined German airline Lufthansa four million dollars for its treatment of a group of Jewish passengers who were denied boarding a 2022 flight in Frankfurt after they had flown to Germany from New York. The Transportation Department says most of the 128 passengers who were denied boarding wore distinctive clothing typically worn by Orthodox Jewish men. The department says the fine is the largest the agency has issued against an airline for civil-rights violation. Lufthansa disputes that any employee acted out of anti-Semitic motivations.
Refugees from Ukraine and Russia, who have fled to Israel, are now helping the war effort there. The Slavic Gospel Association is organizing Ukrainian and Russian Jewish Christians to deliver aid to suffering families on the frontlines. The Illinois-based organization is backing the relief efforts of more than a dozen Ukrainian and Russian-speaking congregations in Israel that are helping Israelis as war escalates in the Middle East. For 90 years the SGA has supported a network of thousands of local churches across the former Soviet Union, helping to meet people’s physical and spiritual needs.
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