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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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Breaking News Film Recounts Story of Doomed Refugee Ship
The U.S. State Department presented a program of speeches and a play highlighting the history of the MS St. Louis for about 200 people, including more than 30 survivors. The highlight of the event was the play “The Trial of FDR.” That play is expected to be shown throughout the country to remind people of…
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Life Grandma’s Gefilte Fish
Every year just before Rosh Hashanah, my mother and I engage in a ritual attempt to approximate my grandmother’s gefilte fish recipe. The recipe itself is an approximation. She cobbled it together from other Holocaust survivors, and perhaps gleaned a few tips from women in a displaced persons’ camp, perhaps remembering bits from what her…
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Breaking News French Train Company Loses $204M Contract
The Maryland subsidiary of a French company that Holocaust survivors accuse of not fully acknowledging its Holocaust complicity will not receive a $204 million contract with the state railway. The Maryland Department of Transportation is expected on Oct. 3 to ask the state’s Board of Public Works – which must approve all state contracts –…
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Breaking News Holocaust Denier Forced to Bankruptcy
A Holocaust denier living in Australia was declared bankrupt after a claim against him by a Jewish leader. Adelaide-based Dr. Fredrick Toben was jailed in 2009 for contempt of a court order banning him from publishing anti-Semitic material on his website. Toben, who was born in Germany, was ordered last year to pay $56,000 in…
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Breaking News Polish Mall Uses Kristallnacht as Slogan
A Polish mall used the term ‘Crystal Night’ as an advertising slogan. “Rob the collection. Crystal Night of shopping,” was the new advertising slogan of Manufaktura Mall in Lodz, which appeared this week on billboards throughout the city. After the intervention of city residents, the company has decided to change the billboards. Crystal Night, or…
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Breaking News Hungary Steps Up Fight With Claims Conference
The Hungarian government has urged the Claims Conference to “refrain from misleading, intentionally misguiding and provoking fear.” The announcement, which was recently published on the government’s website, is the latest escalation in a vociferous exchange which began last month, as the Hungarian government froze money transfers to the Claims Conference citing poor reporting. The Claims…
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Breaking News Simone Veil Wins France’s Highest Honor
French President Francois Hollande has awarded France’s highest honor to Simone Veil, a French politician and Holocaust survivor. Hollande personally presented Veil, 85, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour at the Elysee Palace on Sept. 10. A lawyer by education, she served as Minister of Health under the center-right government of Valery…
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