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The Year Hitler Broke the Internet
Remember the public outcry in June, when a teenager from Alabama took a selfie in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and posted it on Twitter? Or the swastika ring for sale by a third-party vendor at Sears but that was removed after multiple complaints? This year has seen its share of seemingly ridiculous headlines that might…
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Richard Joel Points Fingers Over Mushrooming Yeshiva Fiscal Crisis
Yeshiva University’s president, Richard Joel, has offered his first public explanation for Y.U.’s financial turmoil. Joel blamed several current and former members of staff, as well as the university’s “antiquated and opaque” accounting systems, for concealing the true scale of Y.U.’s deficits. In an interview with a university newspaper, The Commentator, Joel said his former…
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Alan Gross Release — and Diplomatic Thaw — May Mean World to Cuba Jews
(JTA) — Alan Gross was imprisoned while trying to connect Cuba’s isolated Jewish community to the wider world. The deal that got him released five years later may do just that and much more. Gross’ flight home to suburban Washington on Wednesday with his wife, Judy, was part of a historic deal that overturns over five…
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Alan Gross Praises Release From Cuban Jail as Hanukkah ‘Blessing’
Alan Gross, newly released after five years in a Cuban prison, thanked his wife, his lawyer, the Jewish community, President Obama and numerous others in helping secure his freedom. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday in Washington, Gross opened his statement with a Hanukkah greeting and a thank you to Obama. “Chag sameach,” he said….
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Jews Protest Racism and Police Brutality on First Night of Hanukkah
As the first candle of Hanukkah was lit last night, several hundred Jews blocked traffic in San Francisco. The swell of protestors engulfed the busy intersection of Powell Street and Market Street, and a four minute and twenty eight second long moment of silence was held, followed by a recital of the mourner’s kaddish. This…
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Mystery Deepens as FEGS Stonewalls Over $19M Torrent of Red Ink
Days after one of the largest Jewish social service not-for-profits in the country announced it had unexpectedly lost $19.4 million, the mystery surrounding the catastrophic shortfall is deepening. FEGS, a New York City-based social service organization, will not say when or how it learned of the $19.4 million loss. Nor will FEGS do more than…
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Jewish Campus Groups Grapple With Rape Controversy
(JTA) — Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took place in the wake of murky rape allegations at the University of Virginia. That’s because organizations like Hillel and historically Jewish Greek houses such as Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau had been having the conversations for…
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93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Faces Charges in 300,000 Murders
A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday. Nearly 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, in which some 6 million Jews as well as Roma, homosexuals, disabled and political opponents to the…
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For Jews of Lugansk, Empty Schools and Frigid Synagogues as Winter Arrives
(JTA) — In an unheated synagogue with no running water, a dozen Jews are trying to keep warm as temperatures here veer toward the single digits. Not moving too much helps keep the warmth under their thick coats, they say, a technique developed as the group gathered at least once a week to maintain a sense…
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Robert Wolfe, Archivist of Nazi Documents, Fought Relentlessly To Expose Holocaust
Ask the average person their image of an archivist and the likely answer you’ll get is someone resembling Wally Cox — a mild mannered bespectacled man behind a counter with rows of document shelves towering behind him. My most distinct memory of Robert Wolfe is quite different: It is of a short, stocky man shaking…
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32 Things You Should Know About The Forward’s 2014 Salary Survey
1) The number of women in leadership roles is no better now in major national Jewish federations, service and advocacy groups and religious and educational institutions than it was five years ago, when the Forward compiled its first list of executive salaries in communal institutions. There were 11 in 2009; there are 11 today. 2)…
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