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Fast Forward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Invited By Holocaust Survivor To Tour Auschwitz
(JTA) — A Poland-born Holocaust survivor from New Jersey invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz following her remarks about concentration camps. Edward Mosberg, 93, on Friday extended the invitation to the Democrat lawmaker who on Monday touched off a heated debate in the media about her use of the term, which is widely associated…
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Opinion I’m A Latina Jew. My People Are In Concentration Camps Today – Just Like They Were During The Holocaust
My life is one of those classic American mixed kid stories. My mom is Latina and my dad is Jewish, so I grew up calling myself a “challah-peño.” Though I am Latina, I don’t speak Spanish natively. Many Latinx families from my mother’s generation coped with the pressures of xenophobia by assimilating linguistically. Because of…
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The Schmooze The AOC ‘Concentration Camp’ Debate Has Jews Divided. 18 Jews Weigh In.
Question: When is it appropriate to describe a detention center for immigrants as a concentration camp? Meta-question: Millions of Americans, including intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders, are engaging in this discussion — what does that tell us about America? A fervent, raging discourse on this topic of naming immigrant and refugee detention camps has exploded…
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Opinion Take It From A Civil Liberties Professor – Trump And Hitler Have A Lot In Common
I hate to put Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in the same sentence. It trivializes Hitler’s obscene crimes to compare them with Trump’s often pathetic foibles. And it understates our nation’s historic commitment to constitutional democracy to suggest a serious parallel between the twenty first century United States and 1930’s Weimar Germany. But I can’t…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez Compares Migrant Detention Centers To Concentration Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Monday that the United States government was operating “concentration camps” on the U.S.-Mexico border, which critics said was insensitive to Holocaust survivors while defenders claimed the comparison was valid. During a livestreamed Instagram video, the freshman representative from New York decried the fact that some migrant children were being held…
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Opinion Great News For Jews This Week: Cancer Breakthrough, Teen Holocaust Educator, And Neil Patrick Harris
It was another week in the Jewish world with both more blessings and more pain than we know what to do with. Here are just a few of the gems from the week — stories of Jews and allies who repaired tiny fractures in the world. Good news: It happens, too! Teachers: Claire Sarnowski, a…
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Fast Forward Neighbors Of San Francisco Holocaust Memorial Receive Anti-Semitic Hate Mail
(JTA) — Residents of San Francisco that live on the same street as a Holocaust memorial received anti-Semitic hate mail including a reading list of Holocaust denial titles. The letters arrived at every home on San Francisco’s 34th Avenue in late May, J. The Jewish News of Northern California reported. “It is hoped that you…
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Fast Forward As YouTube Cracks Down On Holocaust Denial, It Deletes Anti-Semitism Researcher’s Account
As YouTube cracks down on Holocaust denial on its video platform, it has deleted the account of a prominent anti-Semitism researcher, seemingly in error, the Jewish Chronicle reported. On Wednesday, YouTube said in a press release that it would begin deleting videos from its site that “alleg[e] that a group is superior in order to…
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