As the world marks Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Memorial Day — this week, the enduring strength of the Jewish family is on full view in a new online exhibition …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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4/7/21
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Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess issued a public apology after using the line Ebit macht frei at a company event. The phrase echoed the words arbeit macht frei, meaning “work sets you …
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By Gabriel Eichler, JNS
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4/7/21
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UJA-Federation of New York is campaigning to insert into New York State’s estimated $103.4 billion budget an allocation of $2.5 million in aid for poverty-stricken Holocaust survivors. …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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3/22/21
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Twenty years ago this week, my book, “IBM and the Holocaust,” exposed with crystal clarity — backed up with a literal tower of physical documentation — that IBM knowingly …
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By Edwin Black
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2/10/21
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Elie Wiesel penned his first memoir about being a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps while traveling on a ship from Europe to Brazil in 1954. Later, reworking …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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2/3/21
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The normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco and the US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara have stirred interest in the history of Morocco’s …
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By Rafael Medoff
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12/30/20
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This weekend marks 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes.
A clear line links these …
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By Melanie Phillips
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11/25/20
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One of the latest political disputes in Israel is happening in an unlikely place — the national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem.
News emerged in August that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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11/19/20
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In May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) gifted the world an opportunity to abandon subjective decisions of what qualifies as anti-Semitism. The IHRA, 31 nations …
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By Rhoda Smolow
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10/14/20
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Any other day of the year would have been easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike Pompeo for a visit.
The Secretary of State’s schedule for a whirlwind tour of …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/1/20
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