Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward Faculty at Italy’s University of Turin vote to exit an Israel research pact amid Gaza war protests
The university’s rector said most academic collaboration with Israeli university’s would continue
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian protesters target Dutch Holocaust museum opening ceremony attended by Israeli president
Amnesty International activists installed “detour” signs directing Israel's president, who spoke at the opening, to the International Court of Justice.
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Fast Forward How Jewish journalist Ruth Elkrief wound up in the middle of France’s debate over antisemitism and Islamophobia
A far-left leader called the 30-year broadcast veteran Islamophobic for asking tough questions of a pro-Palestinian lawmaker
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Culture A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.
A new book tells Janina Mehlberg’s story, after three custodians of her memoirs died without seeing them published
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Books The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.
A dogged researcher has so far identified 800 surviving books from a library thought burned during the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Could social media really have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars say Elon Musk’s ‘fantasy scenario’ is far-fetched
One scholar suggested that Musk “take an intro course on the Holocaust"
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Fast Forward Following Auschwitz visit, Elon Musk says X could have saved Jews from the Holocaust
“Two thirds of my friends are Jewish,” Musk said to an approving Ben Shapiro. “I’m like Jewish by association — I’m aspirationally Jewish.”
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News The new Jews of Porto: How the Portuguese city built a Jewish community from scratch
Over the past decade, a community of roughly 1,000 Jews has materialized in Porto, thanks to a law that since 2015 has allowed the return of people whose ancestors were expelled during the Portuguese Inquisition
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Fast Forward Trump’s antisemitism chief shares ‘Jew card’ post from white supremacist
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Opinion I’m a liberal Jew. Count me out of the Tesla boycott
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Opinion What Jews around the world stand to lose from the shuttering of USAID
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Opinion Why a politician with an intriguing Jewish history says the U.S. should give back the State of Liberty
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Yiddish צוויי קינדערלידער דריקן אויס פֿרייד מיט די ערשטע סימנים פֿון פֿרילינגTwo Yiddish children’s songs express delight in the signs of spring
די מחברטע פֿון ביידע לידער איז די באַקאַנטע פּאָעטעסע ביילע שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן ז״ל
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