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Yiddish World New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Fast Forward Top US Holocaust officials: Oct. 7 massacre creates ‘new momentum’ for restitution
'Those who say, you know, it's just a thing of the past, we're reminded by what's happened in the last few weeks that that's not the case,' said Stuart Eizenstat
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivors press Steven Spielberg to publicly support hostages and Israel
'We do not need another film in 3 years about the horrors of Oct. 7,' wrote David Schaecter, who heads the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Holocaust survivors pose with posters of Hamas hostages in a statement of solidarity
One survivor said the Hamas attack on Israel — and the subsequent explosion of antisemitism since — remind her of her childhood “perfectly"
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivors and their descendants thank Biden for Israel support
‘What is happening today brings back my terrible memories,’ wrote one
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Fast Forward Israel’s UN envoy says he’ll wear Nazi yellow star until other countries condemn Hamas
Not everyone within Israel was on board with Gilad Erdan’s display
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Theater A polarizing tale of the Lodz Ghetto, retold as horror story and farce
In Leslie Epstein’s ‘King of the Jews,’ a fine ensemble and immersive atmosphere save a problematic play
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Fast Forward Newly elected GOP House Speaker once likened abortion to the Holocaust
Mike Johnson wrote in 2005 that the legalization of abortion was 'no different' than Hitler's killing of Jews
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Culture Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
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Music After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet
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Fast Forward Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian writer targeted by far-right pro-Israel activists, wins Pulitzer for commentary
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Fast Forward A Jewish nonprofit may have accidentally caused Michigan to drop charges against pro-Palestinian activists
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Opinion Is Israel really going to reoccupy Gaza? Ask Trump
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