admin | March 13, 2024
Ben Stern, a Holocaust survivor who endured years in Nazi concentration camps and two death marches before settling in Skokie, Ill., where he helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the late 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law, died Feb. 28 at 102.
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admin | March 13, 2024
In 1938, the film "Olympia" by the famous director Leni Riefenstahl was released in Germany. The film documented the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and was intended to market the idea of white supremacy as a continuation of the muscular athletes in ancient Greece
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admin | March 13, 2024
Few know that the organization behind the 1922 conclave faced serious financial difficulties.
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admin | March 13, 2024
Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltels father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social democratic youth group, Tsukunft (The Future). She doesnt precisely remember the talk, but she does recall the energy in the room
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admin | March 5, 2024
A 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged after allegedly bringing a nail gun to a demonstration in Thornhill on Sunday, police say. It happened inthe area of Clark Avenue West and South Promenade. York Regional Police (YRP) said they were called to that area at about 9:45 a.m.after a victim reported being assaulted with a weapon by a male suspect.
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admin | March 5, 2024
Erzsebet Barsony and her son, Ervin Fenyes, had been packed in a cattle car for three days en route to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. It was July 12, 1944, and very hot.
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admin | January 13, 2024
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, theres been a lot of discussion around Zionism. Put simply, Zionism is a nationalist movement that advocates for a homeland for the Jewish people in the Biblical Land of Israel. It is the organisation of ideas that actively sought and achieved the existence of the Israeli state in 1948.
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