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Eisgruber was raised Catholic and married his wife in an Episcopal church. While helping his son, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that his Berlin-born mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish. Today, Eisgruber identifies as a nontheist Jew. [23] His wife is Episcopalian. [24]
The notion that Hitler had Jewish roots has persisted for decades despite having been dispelled by top German historians. Hitler’s background is in a rural region of northwestern Austria called ...
The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Many ...
Eisgruber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Christopher L. Eisgruber (born 1961), American legal scholar and university president
Building on his ordination as a maggid by Shlomo Carlebach, [14] Buxbaum established a program to train women and men as maggidim (plural of maggid). [15] [16] Graduates include Shoshana Litman, described as Canada's first ordained female Jewish storyteller, [17] and Tamir Zaltsman, who states that he is the first ordained Russian-speaking maggid. [18]
Speaker Wendy Besmann is the author of the book, "a Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee." She lives along Melton Hill Lake. American Roots talk May 16 to focus on Jewish ...
The college focuses on training Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, and distance learning courses are available online in English. The college is accredited through the European Evangelical Accrediting Association and the Asia Theological Association, [1] [6] although Israel's Ministry of Education does not recognize its degrees. [7]
Miriam Weiner [1] (/ ˈ w iː n ər /) [2] is an American genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in the research of Jewish roots in Poland and the former Soviet Union. [3] [4] Weiner is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary Jewish genealogy through her work to open up archives [5] [6] and is described as a trail-blazing, highly respected guide and leading authority on ...