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Culture Anne Frank’s Diary Gets Authorized Comic Book Adaptation
PARIS (JTA) — In a bid to preserve interest in the Holocaust by future generations, the Basel-based Anne Frank Foundation unveiled the first authorized comic book based on the teenager’s famous diary written in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. The 148-page adaptation, which is to be published September 18 in France and in some…
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Fast Forward Alberto Nisman May Have Been Forced To Kill Himself, Says Argentine Prosecutor
BUENOS AIRES — Alberto Nisman, the federal prosecutor who investigated the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, may have been forced to kill himself, a prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case said. Viviana Fein, who in December was removed from the investigation into Nisman’s mysterious death, had said before that it…
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Fast Forward French Jews Oppose Cannes Screening of Film Sympathetic to Munich Terrorists
The umbrella group of French Jewish communities objected to the planned marketing at Cannes of a film it said falsely blames Germans security forces for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Roger Cukierman, the president of CRIF, made the objection in a May 3 letter to Pierre Lescure, president of…
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Opinion Is Israel Pivoting Away From West To Woo the East?
While significant, the vote by European countries in favor of adopting the latest United Nations report accusing Israel of possible war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war is neither unique nor particularly surprising. More noteworthy were the abstentions by India and four other developing countries that have historically sided against Israel at the U.N. In…
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Opinion Could Israeli Startup Have Prevented Charleston Massacre?
As Wednesday’s massacre in Charleston demonstrated, houses of worship face a particularly difficult security challenge. Unlike schools, churches such as the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal, where nine people were gunned down by a lone shooter on Wednesday, need to stay open and accessible to carry out their mission of community and religious outreach. That’s why…
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Food Matzo Soldier: A Temple of Hungarian Jewish Cuisine
On a corner in the heart of the former Jewish ghetto, David Popovits sits down for some matzo ball soup and supersized dumplings at his newly-opened kosher style restaurant. A burly, 40-year-old Hungarian Jewish businessman, Popovits used to eat here as a boy, when the restaurant’s former owners ran a “dirty little place that smelled…
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