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April 6, 2014 New Series of Hebrew Idol Premieres—Your Vote Counts! By Shunying Wang ’15 The new PLU Hebrew Idol season is here, with another group of talented Lutes. And, just as with its inspiration, American Idol, it’s up to voters to determine the winner. Hebrew Idol is a microfilm competition series organized by Religion Professor Antonios Finitsis. Students in his introductory course on the Hebrew Bible—Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible—are required to apply their

, but somehow Sam and I were able to make it into semis,” Bartholomew said. Competing in their first competition together, Ballard and Gerlach proved a dynamic duo: They made it to the final round. “I’m really proud to have made it that far,” Ballard said. “I’m excited to debate for PLU as often as I can.” Directed by Justin Eckstein, PLU’s Speech and Debate team has a long history of intercollegiate forensics competition. Founded in 1947, PLU’s debate team is one of the oldest and most decorated

) Altmann, paused.  “Times changed,” said the retired businessman as he recounted his family’s history and his mother’s fight to return the paintings to the family. Once the Nazis invaded, Peter Altmann said, and the Reich simply took the paintings. The concern for the Bloch-Bauers and for newlywed Maria, and her husband Fritz Altmann, was simply to escape the country alive.  Maria Altmann kept the stocking she tore as she climbed over the barbed wire into Holland through the assistance of the

Klaus-Wilhelm Rath,” presented at the Lessons & Legacies Holocaust Conference (Nov. 1-4, 2012). These activities have benefited tremendously from research and travel support provided by Ericksen’s position as the  Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. Among other things, this support allowed research in Berlin during most of June and July. Ericksen also had a chance in June to attend a 25th anniversary celebration in Göttingen of a book on the history of Göttingen University, Die Universität

) “I’m really proud to have made it that far,” Ballard said. “I’m excited to debate for PLU as often as I can.” Directed by Justin Eckstein, PLU’s Speech and Debate team has a long history of intercollegiate forensics competition. Founded in 1947, PLU’s debate team is one of the oldest and most decorated forensics programs in the country. In the 2013-14 season, the PLU speech and debate team made it to eliminations at every single tournament it attended. On average, the program attends 10 tournaments

Holocaust go beyond death, Herschkowitz said. Of the few children that survived, many were left alone, orphaned and without the knowledge of who they were. “It is missing,” Herschkowitz said. Some have lived their whole lives without knowing where they were born, when their birthday is or who their parents were. So even though a child survived the Holocaust, their history disappeared, Herschkowitz said. Read Previous Freedom at a cost Read Next Campus takes stand against domestic violence COMMENTS*Note