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News Letters from War-Torn Europe
April 7, 1915 From Vilna a letter was posted to Mr. Arbeiter of 932 North 2nd What can I tell you about Vilna, whatever it is will only be one trop in a sea of great troubles and misfortunes that this war has brought upon us. The most awful thing occurred in Vilna—with a young…
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News The Role Jews Play in the War in Facts and Figures
Jews play no small role in the current war. In the armies and navies fighting on land and sea a large number of Jews can be found. The following list enumerates the number of Jewish soldiers in the various European regular armies: Russia: 250,000 Germany: 6,150 Austria: 52,000 France: 10,000 Bulgaria: 4,500 Italy: 2,000 Holland:…
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News A Terrible Blood Bath
It’s almost impossible to believe, but it happened. War has been declared. The great powers began a terrible blood bath. If the flames are not extinguished right away, the war will be the most terrible, the worst in human history. Think about what happens next. None of the peoples caught up in the war have…
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Fast Forward Le Pen ‘Anti-Semitic’ Family Feud Deepens
(Reuters) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front admitted defeat on Tuesday after failing to win wide enough support to form a political group in European Parliament, dousing her ambition to lead an alliance of nationalists against Brussels. Concurrently, a damaging public feud between Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened as the 86-year-old FN…
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Fast Forward Stephan Kramer Named Chief of AJC Europe Office on Anti-Semitism
Stephan Kramer, a Jewish leader in Germany, was named director of the American Jewish Committee’s new European Office on Anti-Semitism. Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany for 10 years, will head an initiative that aims to raise awareness about and help combat anti-Semitism. Concerns about the problem in Europe…
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Opinion Move To Ban Kosher Slaughter Really Not About the Animals
A number of European countries have recently sought, with some success, to ban the ritual slaughter of four-legged animals by Muslims and Jews. Denmark did so in February, following Poland in January. Proponents framed the discussion in terms of animal welfare. They have a point. Executed properly, animals suffer less when stunned — that is,…
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News Hungary Jews Unify Around Fight With Government Over Holocaust Whitewash
(JTA) — It isn’t every day that Jewish organizations reject funding for Holocaust commemorations. But that’s what happened in Hungary this spring when Jewish groups refused nearly $1 million in special state grants to protest what they see as the government’s whitewashing of Hungarian complicity in the Holocaust. “We wanted to send a very strong message…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns Europe Far Right Against Neo-Nazi Allies
Israel urged Europe’s rising right-wing parties on Sunday not to ally with “neo-Nazi, racist” parties, saying it would not recognize political blocs with ties to such groups. After their resounding victories in the May 22-25 election for the European Parliament, various nationalist and anti-immigration parties have been negotiating on forming coalitions within the assembly. Though…
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