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Breaking News Dutch Rabbi Objects to Nazis in Monument
A Dutch rabbi has demanded that the names of his relatives be removed from a monument which commemorates Jewish Holocaust victims along with German soldiers who died in World War II. “I don’t want my family members’ names to appear next to the names of German murderers,” Rabbi Wim van Dijk said in a filmed…
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Breaking News Italy’s Mario Monti Vows To Stand With Jews
Italy’s prime minister promised Italian Jews he would stand beside them in the fight against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. “We know that anti-Semitism has not been eradicated in Europe,” Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said at a ceremony Tuesday night marking the 69th anniversary of the World War II round-up and deportation of 1,024 Roman…
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News Jewish Family Wants ‘The Scream’ History Explained
The heirs of a German-Jewish banker who claim the famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream” was looted from him by the Nazis want a New York museum to explain its history in its new display. The 1895 work by Edvard Munch is set to go on display Oct. 24 at the Museum of Modern Art…
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Culture Holocaust Memoir Fraud Inspires Novel
The Canvas By Benjamin Stein Translated by Brian Zumhagen Open Letter Paper, 342 pages, $16.95 In 1995, a man named Binjamin Wilkomirski published a memoir called “Fragments,” in which he described the horrors of his childhood in Poland during the Holocaust. The book was a big deal. It was heaped with laurels, including the National…
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Breaking News Jewish Family Claims ‘The Scream’ Is Looted Art
The great-grandson of the onetime German-Jewish owner of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” is reportedly pushing his family’s claim to the $120 million painting as the Museum of Modern Art prepares to put it on display. Rafael Cardoso, a Brazilian curator and descendant of banker Hugo Simon, says his great grandfather was forced to ditch…
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Breaking News ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ Gets 4 Years for Fraud
Rabbi Menachem Youlus, once dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to more than four years in prison for fraud. Youlus was sentenced to 51 months by Judge Colleen McMahon, of the U.S. District Court of Southern New York. Youlus had…
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Breaking News Google Online Institute Highlights Jewish Themes
Google introduced a new online historical collection of digitized material, highlighting several Jewish themes, events and institutional partners in its first wave of exhibits. At least 13 of the Google Cultural Institute’s inaugural collection of 42 featured exhibits consist of materials from the Anne Frank House, the Polish History Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Foundation…
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Breaking News Hugo Chavez Reelection Worries Jewish Leaders
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez won re-election, defeating Henrique Capriles Radonsky, the grandson of Holocaust survivors Chavez took 54.42 percent of the votes to Radonsky’s 45 percent in the Oct. 7 poll, his term will end in 2019. Chavez, a known friend of Iran, become a leading figure in modern Latin American history and will extend…
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