Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
On the same day, a far-right lawmaker called the gas chambers in Auschwitz 'fake'
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Fast Forward Bosnian hotel cancels meeting of European rabbis amid anti-Israel pressure from prominent locals
“This is a sad slap that Sarajevo has given itself,” said the head of the country’s Jewish community
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Fast Forward Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot
The right-wing candidate has the support of a popular politician who lamented the “Judaization” of Poland
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Fast Forward South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Donald Trump — but says his refugee program for Afrikaners is a ‘mistake’
The white South Africans are the only refugees the United States is still admitting
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Fast Forward For the first time since Henry VIII created the role, a Jew will helm Hebrew studies at Cambridge
Yeshiva University’s Aaron Koller will be the first Jewish Regius Professor of Hebrew.
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Fast Forward Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
Some far-right Latvians venerate Herbert Cukurs, whom Mossad agents assassinated in 1965
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Fast Forward 80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim
The Auschwitz Jewish Center is now selling packaged kosher food, in a move both practical and symbolic
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Fast Forward Citing post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany seeks to deport 4 pro-Palestinian protesters, including one American
One of the people who has been ordered to leave the country is a U.S. citizen.
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