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News Nazi monuments removed amid ongoing Forward investigation
Virginia, Bosnia, Belgium and Australia have renamed streets or taken down statues honoring collaborators
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Culture How much is a photo of persecuted Jews worth — and why would someone want to buy it?
A Holocaust image on eBay is generic to most bidders. Unless one of the men in the picture is your cousin.
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Theater In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard shows that there’s a difference between a Jew of culture and a cultural Jew
The playwright’s first reckoning with his Jewish past is too busy with history to engage in emotion
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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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News ESPN documentary focuses on Holocaust and Munich massacre survivor Shaul Ladany
ESPN veteran Jeremy Schaap, who is Jewish and has won 11 Emmys, traveled to Israel and through Germany to tell Ladany’s story
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Fast Forward Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn likened MAGA voters to Holocaust victims
‘We are on this train right now,’ Flynn said at rally last year for Senate candidate
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Fast Forward A new documentary, ‘Four Winters,’ recounts the hell and fury of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis
Julia Mintz’s film tells a story of guerilla warfare and steely resolve
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News How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
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News An Alabama millionaire offered Jews $50,000 to move to his town. 16 years later, what’s left?
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Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
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Opinion I thought the Dyke March should be open to Zionists. So my fellow New York organizers kicked me out
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