Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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News Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. And The Holocaust’ asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews and immigrants during wartime
Working with top historians, Burns and his co-directors cover some surprising territory in their retelling of the American response
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Fast Forward Oregon’s Swastika Mountain will soon be renamed
The mountain predates the Nazis and took its name from a shuttered town where a cattle rancher branded his cows with a swastika symbol
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Fast Forward Wolf Blitzer, the son of Holocaust survivors, discusses his new CNN special on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Blitzer's tour of the museum airs less than a week after Dana Bash's CNN special on antisemitism
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Fast Forward Minn. GOP’s nominee for governor says comparing COVID policies to the Holocaust is ‘legitimate’
Scott Jensen doubled down after linking mask mandate policies to Kristallnacht
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Fast Forward Texas school district reinstates an adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary amid firestorm of controversy
Outside groups, including a kosher hot dog company, said they would send more copies of the diary to the district
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Fast Forward Amid outcry, Texas superintendent says Anne Frank adaptation will be back on shelves ‘very soon’
The 2018 graphic reimagining of the famous Holocaust diary was caught up in a conservative-led push to remove “pornographic” material from the school. Jewish groups have been furious
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Fast Forward Texas school district orders librarians to remove a version of Anne Frank’s diary from shelves
The Fort Worth-area district said “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” and dozens of other books, including the Bible, must be removed following parental challenges
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Fast Forward Johnny Depp, fresh off his defamation trial, is directing a film about Jewish Italian painter Modigliani
Al Pacino is producing the film about the artist, who occasionally explored his Jewishness in his art
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