JTA
By JTA
-
Fast Forward Did Polish Premier Reject Refugees In Auschwitz Speech?
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has been criticized for her speech at the Auschwitz Museum, marking the 77th anniversary of the first deportation of prisoners to the camp. “Auschwitz is a great lesson in today’s turbulent time that everything must be done to protect the security and life of one’s citizens,”…
-
Fast Forward ‘Wonder Woman’ Can Play In Jordan Theaters, Officials Rule
Jordan decided not to ban the film “Wonder Woman” from the country’s movie theaters. “The film was allowed to screen in Jordanian cinemas due to a lack of legal precedent to do otherwise, as outlined by Regulation No. 63 of 2004, on the Clearance and Control of Audiovisual Works,” Mohammed Qtaishat, director general of the Communications…
-
Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Messages Painted On Romanian Synagogue
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic messages were found painted on the wall of a synagogue in Romania. “Holocaust Never Happened” and “All the Best” with a Star of David were painted in black and red on the outside of the Synagogue of Deportees Memorial Temple in Cluj-Napoca, in northwestern Romania. Police were called about the graffiti on…
-
Fast Forward New Zealand PM: I Did Not Apologize To Israel For UN Settlements Resolution
(JTA) — New Zealand’s prime minister said his government still supports a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel on settlement construction. Prime Minister Bill English’s comments to the New Zealand Herald came one day after the two countries restored diplomatic ties and Israel agreed to return its ambassador. In February, Israel permanently downgraded its diplomatic ties with New…
-
Fast Forward London Jews Mobilize To Help Victims Of Deadly Highrise Inferno
(JTA) — Britain’s chief rabbi offered prayers and a local synagogue put out an appeal to help the victims in the deadly fire that destroyed a high-rise apartment building in London. At least six people were killed and dozens remain missing and are feared dead in the massive fire in Grenfell Tower in the western…
-
Fast Forward Fugitive Holocaust Denier Turned Over To Germany
(JTA) — Hungarian officials have handed over to German authorities right-wing extremist Horst Mahler, who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler was transferred late last week into German custody at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Airport, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mahler, 81, was arrested…
-
Fast Forward Survivor Gets Apology From Nazi Sympathizer’s Granddaughter Over Looted Home
(JTA) — A New Jersey Holocaust survivor has received an unsolicited apology from the granddaughter of Nazi sympathizers who lived in his Nuremberg home after his family was driven out of Germany at the start of the Holocaust. Doris Schott-Neuse told Peter Hirschmann of Maplewood that she was “deeply ashamed” over what her fellow Germans “did to…
-
Fast Forward Trove Of Nazi Medical Tools For Experiments Unearthed In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentinean federal police discovered original Nazi objects from World War II, including tools for Nazi medical experiments. The objects were found on Friday in a hidden room of a house located in the northern part of greater Buenos Aires. The objects are now in the custody of the justice who is…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
- 2
News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
- 3
Culture Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
- 4
Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian writer targeted by far-right pro-Israel activists, wins Pulitzer for commentary
-
Fast Forward A Jewish nonprofit may have accidentally caused Michigan to drop charges against pro-Palestinian activists
-
Culture For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke
-
Opinion Is Israel really going to reoccupy Gaza? Ask Trump
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
