admin | October 24, 2020
As a journalist in Israel, Marc Israel Sellem has dodged shellfire and run through riots while working. But the Jerusalem Post photographer was still surprised by what happened Sunday when he set out to document the reopening of haredi Orthodox schools in violation of government restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19.
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admin | October 24, 2020
(JTA) With tensions high between Orthodox Jews and New York officials, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed regret Tuesday for how he handled a large Hasidic funeral in the pandemics early days. Back in April, after a large funeral for a local rabbi in Brooklyn drew thousands of Orthodox Jews into the streets of Williamsburg, de Blasio visited the scene himself and called out the Jewish community
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admin | October 21, 2020
Two Jewish cemeteries and a Holocaust memorial were vandalised in Greece. The most serious incident, which involved the smashing of several headstones, occurred at the Jewish cemetery on the island of Rhodes on Oct. 11, the Politismika news site reported on Monday
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admin | October 21, 2020
Marga Mincos autobiographical novel, Bitter Herbs, which revolves around the experience of Dutch Jews during the Second World War, has been republished for the first time in more than 60 years. Originally written in 1957, Mincos debut novel has been compared to Anne Franks Diary and has been reissued with a new translation by Jeannette K. Ringold
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admin | October 21, 2020
In 1961, the Holocaust Museum LA became the first Holocaust museum founded by survivors. The museum became a forum for their artifacts and stories so that their history could be preserved and passed from generation to generation
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admin | October 21, 2020
Since 1946, the victims of the Nazi oppression are commemorated in Luxembourg. 75 years ago, the Second World War came to an end.
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admin | October 21, 2020
Fear gripped me, as it did many Americans, on election night 2016. As I began to feel tightness in my throat and heaviness in my chest, memories of my adolescence in Nazi-occupied Hungary returned.
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admin | October 21, 2020
Anti-Semitisms lengthy history is built on ignorance and the perpetuation of lies by people who hate Jews. Its a disease far more incurable than a pandemic. Over the centuries, despots disliked a people whose theology introduced a code of morality and justice that flipped civilizations
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admin | October 21, 2020
Twitter announced last week that it will remove posts that deny the Holocaust. Bloomberg first reported the move on Oct. 14
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admin | October 21, 2020
Twitter CEO and Co Founder, Jack Dorsey addresses students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), on November 12, 2018 in New Delhi, India. Amal KS | Hindustan Times | Getty Images Twitter confirmed it is going to start removing posts that deny the Holocaust just two days after Facebook implemented the same policy.
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