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Fast Forward High School Students Mock Exhibits At Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — A school district in Pennsylvania is investigating social media posts from students on a senior class trip that mocked exhibits at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The senior class from the Forest Hills School District visited the museum in Washington D.C. last Wednesday as part of its senior class trip. Senior class president Gabe…
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Opinion They Built A Public Pool Over The Site Of Kristallnacht — So I Danced In It
When my good friends picked me up at the Freiburg train station this past summer, they told me they had bad news: The site of the old Synagogue, burnt to the ground during the Holocaust, had been turned into a wading pool. Just the week before, the mayor and city council had presided over the…
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Fast Forward Larry David Crosses ‘SNL’ Line With Jokes About Sex Harassment, Jews — And The Holocaust
Larry David is no stranger to flirting with the limits of good taste. But the comic’s monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ caused many to accuse him of stepping over that line, with jokes about romance in concentration camps and the fact that so many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish. He…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Pulled From Car — Seconds Before Train Hits
A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor was saved by the quick actions of good Samaritans after he was pulled from his car seconds before a train collided with it on Tuesday, Fox News reported. Henry Flescher had become stuck on train tracks in Miami-Dade County after taking a curve too fast. He then realized there was a…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Mustache Shaved In Nazi-Killing Video Game
A new video game that lets you kill Hitler and his hordes of Nazi robots was forced by German law to shave Hitler’s infamous mustache for the game’s German version. While the English-language version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, are replete with Nazi imagery and language, German law required the game’s makers to scrub…
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Fast Forward Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Holocaust Survivor and Educator, Dies at 93
Dr. Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, the Holocaust survivor, author, and educator, has passed away. Heller authored the book, “Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl’s Holocaust Memoirs,” and was the subject of the 2009 documentary film, “Teenage Witness: The Fanya Heller Story.” She was 93. Fanya Gottesfeld was a teenager when she was forced…
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The Schmooze 3 Movies To Watch At This Year’s Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival kicks off on November 4, running until November 19th. A fixture of the Philadelphia cultural scene for thirty-seven years, the PJFF is the second-oldest Jewish film festival in the United States (second only to San Francisco). There’s quite a wealth of films being shown — so I’ve done you a…
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Fast Forward ‘Anne Frank’ High-Speed Train Draws Criticism Over Echo Of Nazi Deportations
Germany’s national railway company is drawing criticism after it proposed to name one of its trains after Anne Frank, the Telegraph reported. In a move that is being called “tasteless” and “insensitive,” Deutsche Bahn had planned the homage to Anne Frank as a symbol of tolerance. Critics have said that it is inappropriate to name…
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