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The School My Grandfather Built Was Bombed in Amsterdam

JL;DR SUMMARY Pini Dunner reflects on the recent bombing outside the Cheider school in Amsterdam, a school founded by his grandfather Uri Yehuda Adje Cohen. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationNetherlandsAmsterdamHolocaust ResistanceJewish ResilienceOrthodox Jewish LifeIntimidationCheider SchoolUri Yehuda Adje Cohen

Places mentioned

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"An explosive device was detonated on Friday night outside the Cheider school in Amsterdam."
Hamburg, Germany
"My grandfather was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1910."
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
"resistance group in Rotterdam against the occupying Nazis while living in hiding"
West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States
"a man drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan"

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