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A Bloomingburg Primer
The Forward’s article this week on the dispute over a new Satmar development in Bloomingburg is built on years of reporting by many outlets. For those interested in digging deeper, we suggest checking out the following stories and resources. The Times Herald-Record Without a doubt, the newspaper that has paid the closest attention to the…
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What If Donald Trump Really Does Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem?
The Trump team has called relocating the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem a “priority.” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said such a move would be “great.” But experts on the Middle East see a variety of possible scenarios for such a move, and most of them are terrible. The main concern is that moving…
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How a Winter Fire Burned Down the Walls Between a Jewish Summer Camp and Its Neighbors
To get to Camp Ramah Darom in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, you drive up Interstate 85, North, out of Atlanta, the nearest big city, for almost an hour. Just a little past Peachtree Corners, you turn onto old U.S. Route 23. From there it’s 35 minutes or so, deep into the mountains,…
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Camp Ramah Faces Decades-Old Accusation of Sexual Abuse
For four decades, a Jewish man says he did not tell anyone that a counselor at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires forced him to perform a sex act in the woods one summer as a boy. But now that his alleged abuser has been convicted in the sexual abuse of several children in Canada, the…
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Israeli Soldiers Vow on Facebook Not to Evacuate Illegal West Bank Settlement
Israeli soldiers have taken to Facebook to pledge defy army orders and refuse to evacuate Amona, an outpost settlement in the West Bank slated for demolition this month. A new Facebook group called “I am also refusing to evacuate Amona,” is displaying anonymous messages from soldiers who say they won’t evict Israeli settlers. The group…
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Northwestern’s Peter Hayes Puts His Master Class on the Holocaust into a Book
For 36 years, Peter Hayes’s History of the Holocaust course at Northwestern University was the best lecture series on campus. Over the course of eight weeks, Hayes, a professor of German history, explained the Holocaust by answering a series of questions: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why didn’t the Jews fight back?…
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Aleppo’s Last Jewish Family Flees for Israel Amid Devastation
Jewish history in the Syrian city of Aleppo all but ended in October, when an Israeli businessman and moderate rebels helped smuggle out of the country the last Jewish family in town — but not everybody escaped. The Halabis had lived in Syria through more than four years of internecine civil war, shuttering themselves in…
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A Year After Death, ‘Angel’ Daniella Moffson Inspires Outpouring of Emotion — and Giving
In the year since Daniella Moffson’s tragic death, many of her friends – and even some complete strangers – have been honoring her memory by raising money for causes she cared about. Moffson, 21, was one of three people killed in a bus crash in Honduras last January when the vehicle, which carried 25 Columbia…
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Google ‘Did the Holocaust Happen’ — and a Neo-Nazi Site Is the Top Hit
Googling “did the Holocaust happen” returns an unsettling answer: A page from the Neo-Nazi website Stormfront titled “Top 10 reasons why the Holocaust didn’t happen.” The page’s place on the Google search results was originally reported by the Guardian on Sunday and picked up by a slew of other sites. On Tuesday afternoon, the site…
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BREAKING: New Hearings in Holocaust Lawyer’s Challenge to FBI Behavior in Clinton Email Scandal
Lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg is well-known for his work pursuing restitution of art stolen in the Holocaust; this week, he’s made headlines for filing a lawsuit against the FBI. The lawsuit demands the agency honor Schoenberg’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the search warrant they obtained to investigate Anthony Weiner’s laptop as…
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Con Ed Threatens to Turn Out the Lights on Jared Kushner Properties
Jared Kushner’s real estate empire isn’t paying all its bills, according to the New York City electric company Consolidated Edison, which is threatening to cut off power at some of his properties in the East Village after one of his management firms failed to pay hundreds of dollars in fees. “We regret to notify you…
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