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Fast Forward Jewish Historian Quizzed by Polish Prosecutors Over Research Into Holocaust Complicity
A Polish prosecutor interrogated Jan Tomasz Gross, a Jewish historian who researched Polish complicity in the Holocaust. Prosecutors are trying to determine whether Gross insulted the Polish nation by publishing an article in German newspaper “Die Welt” in which he said that Poles “had killed more Jews than the Germans” during World War II. Gross,…
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Fast Forward Belgium Lawmaker Compares Islamist Terrorists to Jews Hiding From Nazis
In explaining how terrorists could avoid capture in hiding, Belgium’s vice prime minister compared their situation to that of Jews who hid from Nazis. Vice Prime Minister Jan Jambon made the analogy last week during an interview with VTM, a Flemish-language television station, the news website Knack reported Wednesday. Claude Maroniower, a Belgian-Jewish alderman in…
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Fast Forward Arnold Wesker, British Playwright Dubbed ‘Bard of Working Class,’ Dies at 83
Sir Arnold Wesker, a prominent British-Jewish playwright whose work touched on many Jewish issues, has died at 83. Wesker, who wrote more than 40 plays that were translated into 18 languages, died Tuesday evening of Parkinson’s disease, the Washington Post reported. Wesker first drew attention in 1957 for his play “Chicken Soup with Barley,” part…
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Fast Forward Israeli Envoy Blasts ‘Anti-Semitic’ Hungary Newspaper Columnist
Israel’s ambassador to Hungary penned a letter to a newspaper editor condemning what he said was a columnist’s anti-Semitic writings. Ambassador Ilan Mor’s April 4 letter to Peter Petan, editor-in-chief of Magyar Hirlap, were about articles by Zsolt Bayer, a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party, that “openly advocate anti-Semitic sentiments and incite against the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump’s Jewish Son-in-Law To Buy Jehovah’s Witness Building in Brooklyn
Ivanka Trump’s husband and other Jewish real estate developers are reportedly in talks to purchase the Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters in Brooklyn. The 733,000-square-foot building in the trendy Dumbo section of Brooklyn is being sold to Jared Kushner, German Jew Aby Rosen and real estate company LIVWRK for approximately $700 million, the New York Post…
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Fast Forward John Kasich Jokes With Brooklyn Orthodox That He Prefers Abraham to Moses
John Kasich bantered with haredi Orthodox Jews about which biblical figure was most significant and other lessons from the Jewish Bible. The Ohio governor and one of three Republicans left vying for the party’s presidential nomination toured a Jewish book store in Borough Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood, Tuesday, Jewish Insider reported. New York State’s primary…
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Fast Forward John Kasich Pushes Support for Israel and ‘Judeo-Christian Values’
Making NATO a policing organization would play a role in transmitting what John Kasich has described as Judeo-Christian values, the Republican presidential candidate said. “With Europe, I said that NATO needed to be transformed into a policing and intelligence organization,” Kasich, the governor of Ohio, said in an extensive interview with the New York Daily…
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Fast Forward Norway Rap Stars Use ‘Jew’ and ‘Ariel Sharon’ as Insults on Hit Track
A popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I…
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