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Culture This Auschwitz book trend has got to stop — the sooner the better
It is time to rise up and say: No more book titles including the words 'of Auschwitz'
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Fast Forward U of Minnesota backtracks on Holocaust Center hire who accused Israel of genocide
Raz Segal faced pushback over a piece he wrote for Jewish Currents in the days after Oct. 7
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Fast Forward German Holocaust reparations increase again this year, but plateau expected as survivors perish
The rising tally is driven by health care costs, not direct payments to survivors
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Film & TV Is this a Hitler documentary worth watching?
Joe Berlinger’s Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ is a lot better than it sounds
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News A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker’s list — for protesting the war in Gaza
Rene Lichtman says a Detroit-area Holocaust museum dropped him after he protested in front of its building
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Film & TV What’s behind the boom in Holocaust TV?
In the past year, the era of mid TV has come to include the Holocaust. What's going on?
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Music How my story about Nazi-looted art inspired an opera by one of America’s greatest composers
'Before It All Goes Dark' started life as an article in the Chicago Tribune
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Culture The untold story of how Jon Ossoff’s cousin survived the Holocaust and got to the US
He escaped a death march, foraged for food in the forest and placed an ad seeking a long-lost aunt in the Forward
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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