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Fast Forward New York’s former hate crimes czar has a new mission: teaching the Holocaust
Deborah Lauter discussed what she improved on in New York City and the "distressing" rise in antisemitism
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Culture Wait, did Alex Jones’ lawyer really invoke the Holocaust to defend his client?
For some reason Jones’ defense paraphrased Martin Niemöller’s poem ‘First they came for...’
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Fast Forward Holocaust ‘doesn’t even compare’ to abortion deaths, says GOP nominee for Illinois governor
Darren Bailey is facing Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish, in the general election
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Fast Forward Holocaust memorials in Buchenwald and Berlin vandalized in same week
An association of Holocaust survivors called one incident a “hateful and calculated demonstration of power by neo-Nazis”
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Culture Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
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Yiddish World The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Before World War I, the Marienbad resort had hotels for the rebbes, replete with glatt kosher restaurants and ritual baths
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Fast Forward René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84
Slotkin and his sister were among just 200 sets of twins to survive gruesome experimentation by the infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele at Auschwitz
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Culture 750 artifacts of the Holocaust, each with its own tale to tell
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 'The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do' lacks focus, but spotlights powerful stories
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Yiddish מיר זיצן אין שוץ־צימער (ליד)Sitting in the safe room (poem)
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Fast Forward Maccabiah Games postponed to 2026, as Israel-Iran war disruptions start to pile up
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Fast Forward At an Iranian Jewish hangout, retirees wonder if regime change is in the cards
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Fast Forward For Israelis under Iranian barrage, deadly nights alternate with days brimming with life
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