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Fast Forward Second gentleman Emhoff to tour Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Emhoff, who will be joined by Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt, will also travel to Berlin for meetings with global antisemitism envoys
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Forverts in English Yiddish film offers authentic recreation of shtetl life before it was destroyed
The title leaves the ‘e’ out of ‘shtetl’ as a symbol of what was lost.
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Alabama museum removes quotation by Nazi scientist
Several items honoring NASA’s Wernher von Braun still remain around the US
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Opinion My German aunt died in the Holocaust. A Munich high school made sure she was never forgotten
Nearly 80 years after her death in the Warsaw Ghetto, my extended family returned to Germany to honor Johanna's memory
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News Every ‘Jew-ish’ thing George Santos has said and done (that we know about)
The Long Island Congressman-elect is not the ‘proud American Jew’ he claims to be — but certainly has a lot of chutzpah
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Culture A visitor to Paris finds a dark layer of Jewish history in the City of Light
Beyond the city's wine, food and fashion, the tragic fate of French Jews in World War II is hiding in plain sight
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Opinion George Santos exploited Jewish trauma to win an election
The Republican politician is not the first person to claim minority identity for personal gain
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News A US soldier sent home bones from Dachau. They’ve just been buried in a Jewish cemetery
The remains have been hidden since the Holocaust. No one knows who they belong to
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Fast Forward ‘Rabbi rebellion’: 33 Orthodox rabbis endorse Harris
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FIRST PERSON As a rabbi, he helped others mourn. So why wouldn’t his daughter say kaddish for him?
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Opinion Netanyahu’s firing of Gallant is a cynical betrayal of Israel’s security
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Fast Forward They quit the Biden administration over the war in Gaza. But they are backing Harris.
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