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Breaking News Trump Mourns Jewish Victims In Holocaust Remembrance Speech
NEW YORK (JTA) – President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress. Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of the WJC’s Plenary Assembly in New York City Sunday night, Trump’s remarks honed close to Jewish communal talking points….
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Fast Forward Trump To Visit Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and then deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial Day is observed in Israel. The week-long Days of Remembrance was first held in…
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Fast Forward Israel’s President Joins Alternative Holocaust Remembrance Event
In recent years, young Israeli Jews have looked beyond the traditional state ceremonies that mark Holocaust Remembrance Day to find more intimate points of connection with survivors. Now, one leader of those state ceremonies is taking note. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin participated in Zikaron BaSalon, or Remembering in the Living Room, an initiative that invites…
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Film & TV You Must Watch This New Film On The Armenian Genocide, Whether It’s Any Good Or Not
Today, “The Promise, a film about the Armenian Genocide, was released in theaters. At first glance, either at the trailer or the film, we are given a sweeping historical drama filmed and written in a slightly dated fashion – a fine, if forgettable, affair. But against the backdrop of both history and the world’s current…
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Fast Forward Ivanka To Visit Holocaust Memorial On Trip to Germany
Ivanka Trump will visit the Holocaust Memorial during a visit to Berlin on Tuesday in commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day, which begins Sunday night. The First Daughter will be in Berlin for the W20 Summit, a meeting of female leaders in government, NGOS, and business, where she will be speaking on a…
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Fast Forward Israel Admits Holocaust Survivors In Dire Circumstances
Israel’s state comptroller sharply critiqued the state’s treatment of Holocaust survivors ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Haaretz reported. In a report issued on Wednesday, state comptroller Yosef Shapira said that Israel had made it difficult for survivors to access the benefits that they are entitled to and some survivors were at risk of…
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News Le Pen Beckons French Jews — And Some Respond
Back in February, the right-wing Jewish website Dreuz reported on an unprecedented meeting: The Confederation Of French Jews And Friends Of Israel, it disclosed, had recently met with Louis Alliot, the vice president of France’s National Front party, a far-right group long associated with Holocaust denial and historical sympathies for France’s wartime collaborationist regime with…
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Forverts in English 120 Years of the Forverts: How We Covered the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Unlike many American newspapers during World War II, which largely ignored the ongoing Nazi extermination of European Jewry – most notoriously, the New York Times – the Forverts continually printed reports on the Nazi genocide. Despite its prominent coverage in the Forverts, the articles were not always…
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