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The first 'Oneg Shabbat' archive cache is recovered from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, September 1946. (public domain)
December 11, 2018, 9:15 pm
Can we handle the uncomfortable truths unearthed in WWII’s Oneg Shabbat archive?
A $2-million pledge from Taube Philanthropies promises to fix ‘glaring omissions’ at National WWII Museum and grow distance-learning for Holocaust-related programs
By Matt Lebovic
Philanthropist Tad Taube speaks at the groundbreaking of the Taube Family Campus on June 29, 2016 at the Jerusalem-based HUC-JIR rabbinical school. (Avi Hayun)
May 3, 2017, 12:42 pm
Taube to fund $3m Huntington’s disease research in US
Program will use gene editing and stem cell therapies to find treatments, cure for devastating disease
By Shoshanna Solomon
Rabbi Aaron Panken, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (left) and Tad Taube, founder and chairman of Taube Philanthropies, celebrate the groundbreaking at the newly named Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)
July 13, 2016, 8:16 pm
For US philanthropist, keeping Israelis Jewish means boosting Reform Jewry
His $15 million donation to upgrade the Reform Movement’s flagship campus in Jerusalem may look like a statement, but Tad Taube says he’s not out to spark a religious war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
From left: Sean Taube, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, Taube Philanthropies founder and chairman Tad Taube, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, and Taube Philanthropies executive director Shana Penn celebrate as The Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is named in Jerusalem, June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)
June 29, 2016, 11:38 pm
Hebrew Union College saluted as ‘beacon of tolerance’ at Jerusalem campus groundbreaking
Renovation of the Israeli headquarters for Reform Jewry funded by a $15 million grant from Taube Philanthropies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tad Taube poses in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
May 1, 2016, 10:31 pm
Sides swap attacks in trial over Bay Area’s Koret Foundation
While the Jewish philanthropy’s chairwoman for life, Susan Koret, was until recently ‘unaware’ of the Holocaust, she charges that former president Tad Taube has funneled funds to ‘pet projects’
By Rob Gloster and Dan Pine
A wooden mezuzah, or ritual Jewish doorpost parchment holder, with a metal menorah design produced by the Mi Polin Judaica studio in Warsaw. (Courtesy)
December 7, 2015, 5:06 am
SF Bay Area foundation to send mezuzahs to IDF bases
500 Warsaw-made doorpost parchment-holders a sign of gratitude, Poland’s ‘vibrant’ Jewish culture
By JTA
Malgorzata Lubinska's son Lucasz (left) preparing for his bar mitzvah in Warsaw in "H-I-Jew Positive." (photo credit: Ron Katzenelson)
October 30, 2014, 9:31 am
Polish hidden Jews embrace ‘hip’ ancestry
Rediscovering Jewish roots is becoming cool for Poland’s youth, but lingering memories of the Holocaust are never far from the surface
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tad Taube poses in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
October 9, 2014, 5:17 am
Lawsuit: Taube used Koret Foundation as ‘personal piggy bank’
Widow of founder alleges that 83-year-old who escaped Poland in 1939 abused foundation to promote his own causes
By JTA
People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto at a monument on the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
April 23, 2013, 12:38 pm
An alternative Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial
During last week’s commemorations, the grave of the uprising’s last surviving commander was blanketed in daffodils. Here’s why
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Tad Taube poses in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
April 21, 2013, 4:07 pm
US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum
Polish-born Tad Taube was the driving force behind the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, aimed to prevent the Holocaust from becoming the beginning and end of Polish Jewry
By Vanessa Gera
Aerial view of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw (photo credit: courtesy)
April 18, 2013, 8:46 pm
At long last, Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews
More than 20 years in the making, the museum’s dedication this week coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
People enter the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland (photo credit:AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 28, 2012, 9:53 pm
New Warsaw museum preserves 1,000 years of Jewish life
Museum of the History of Polish Jews aims to join the ranks of Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust museum, but does not focus only on tragedy
By Vanessa Gera
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