Ofer Aderet
By Ofer Aderet
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News Was this Jewish prayer book printed before the Gutenberg Bible?
Book dealer Moshe Rosenfeld says he has proof that a Jewish prayer book was printed in southern France in 1444
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Fast Forward Palestinian president walks back ‘50 Holocausts’ accusation after drawing worldwide ire
U.S. antisemitism envoy, German chancellor, Israeli PM strongly rebuke Mahmoud Abbas a day after he accused Israel of ‘50 Holocausts’ against Palestinians
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Film & TV Polish Film Institute rescinds funding for movie that says most Poles didn’t save Jews in WWII
The government-run organization called parts of the film 'historically inaccurate' for saying the vast majority of Poles did not save Jews during the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Closed As Nude Protesters Slaughter Sheep
The memorial site at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland was closed for a short time on Friday due to the actions of a group of about a dozen protesters who slaughtered a sheep, lit a fire, took off their clothes and chained themselves to the famous gate that reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“work sets…
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Israel News Israel Marks First-Ever National Day Remembering Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands
(Haaretz) — For Meir Kahlon, chairman of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, this is a historic week. For the first time, Israel has officially recognized his suffering, that of his family and some 850,000 other Jews who left, were expelled or fled from their homes in Syria, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq,…
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News When Hitler Honored Jewish Soldiers
(Haaretz) — On June 15, 1935, two years after the Nazis’ rise to power, Hermann Bendheim was invited to the German Consulate in Jerusalem. The representatives of the Third Reich in Palestine awarded him a badge of honor for his service in the German army in World War I. Two years earlier, Bendheim had been dismissed…
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News Why Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Descended From Khazars — and What It Means
(Haaretz) — The claim that today’s Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars who converted in the Middle Ages is a myth, according to new research by a Hebrew University historian. The Khazar thesis gained global prominence when Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University published “The Invention of the Jewish People” in 2008. In that…
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Culture Doomed Jewish Freedom Fighter’s Journey From Tel Aviv to Auschwitz
(Haaretz) — For decades, no one took an interest in the seven letters, handwritten in Polish and kept in the home of Priva and Jacob Bendet. They had been sent in the 1930s to Priva, at her home in Tel Aviv, by her sister Lusia, from Warsaw and from Paris. “One letter led to the…
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