Julie Wiener
By Julie Wiener
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Fast Forward 16,000 Lost Mementos of Auschwitz Victims Unearthed
— The Auschwitz Museum says it has rescued from storage 16,000 personal items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp. Museum officials said Tuesday that Poland’s former Communist government stored the items — including empty medicine bottles, shoes, jewelry and watches — and then neglected them, Agence France Press reported. “In most cases, these…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Reportedly Agrees to Arab Peace Push, Wants It to Supplant France’s
JTA — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly consented to regional efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace, which he wants to supplant the French-led international push that just launched. Citing a Channel 2 TV report, The Times of Israel that Netanyahu “said yes” Thursday to a new Egyptian-Saudi Arabia endeavor for regional progress toward peace. Netanyahu spoke by phone with U.S. Secretary of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blasts French Peace Push — Says Will Stoke Palestinian ‘Intransigence’
— The international peace conference that begins Friday in Paris will harm chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace and “radicalize Palestinian demands,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said two days before its start. In a speech Wednesday at Bar-Ilan University’s medical school graduation, Netanyahu criticized the Paris effort and repeated a call for direct talks “without preconditions,”…
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Fast Forward British Labour Chief Jeremy Corbyn Slams Israel in Newly Released Letters
(JTA) — In letters sent to the foreign minister, the head of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called for sanctions against Israel and described some of the Jewish state’s politicians as “criminals” who should be banned from Britain. Corbyn’s anti-Israel letters, written while he was a Parliament member but before he was elected party chief,…
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Fast Forward 88% of Israel’s Women Lawmakers Have Been Sexually Harassed
(JTA) — All but four of Israel’s current female Knesset members report they have experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault at some point in their lives — with two saying they experienced it even after entering the Knesset. A survey of Israel’s 32 female lawmakers conducted by Israel’s Channel 2 found that 28 had been…
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Fast Forward Poland Vows To Extradite Roman Polanski To Face 40-Year-Old Rape Charge
(JTA) — Poland said it will initiate efforts to extradite Roman Polanski to the United States, in an attempt to reverse a October 30 court ruling that doing so would be “obviously unlawful.” Polanski, who is Jewish, fled the country almost four decades ago after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. Justice Minister and chief…
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Fast Forward Interfaith Couple Files Complaint Against Quaint Hotel That Shunned Wedding
(JTA) — A Wisconsin couple filed a discrimination charge against an Illinois hotel owner who allegedly refused to host their interfaith wedding because it was not religious. Alexandra Katzman and Jonathan Webber of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, filed the charge against the owner, Dave Anderson, with the Illinois Department of Human Rights, The Associated Press Wednesday….
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Fast Forward British Golf World Rife With Anti-Semitism: Ex-BBC Boss
(JTA) — A British media mogul who headed the BBC has accused the United Kingdom’s golf scene of being “full” of anti-Semitism, saying a prominent club banned him in the 1980s because he is Jewish. Michael Grade, 73, who served as BBC chairman from 2004 to 2006, UK’s Telegraph that he learned to “steer clear of any clubs…
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