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The Schmooze Auschwitz Museum To Visitors: Stop Using Train Tracks For Instagram Photo Opps
A new niche trend has arisen: pensive photos of teens balancing on the cattle car train tracks that lead into the Auschwitz memorial. Makes you nostalgic for the innocent days of concentration camp selfies and innocent games of Swastika beer pong, doesn’t it? The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has posted a frustrating plea on social media…
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Fast Forward That Time Teenage Beto O’Rourke Interviewed A Neo-Nazi
As a teenager in the late 1980s, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was part of a famous hacking collective called the Cult of the Dead Cow, Reuters reported Friday. Among his exploits: Publishing an interview with a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi. Transcripts from the taped interview, which O’Rourke published under his handle “Psychedelic Warlord” when he was around…
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News David Irving Holocaust Denier Leads Tour Of Nazi Death Camps
(JTA) — British Holocaust denier David Irving is planning to lead a tour of Nazi death camps. Irving is taking deposits on his website for the tour of Nazi historical sites scheduled for September, the U.K. Jewish News reported. The nine-day tour, which costs $3,650, is scheduled to visit Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Majdanek. Publicity…
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Opinion Our Obsession With The Holocaust Made Us Blind To American Anti-Semitism
The historian Pamela Nadell made a fascinating point in an opinion piece in last week’s Washington Post: By focusing on the Holocaust, she argues, Americans have overlooked centuries of anti-Semitism on our own shores. “This focus on the Holocaust gets Americans off the hook. Anti-Semitism is something that happened over there, in Europe — an…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Cites Father’s Holocaust History In Contentious House Testimony
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen twice cited his father’s experience as a Holocaust survivor in the opening hours of his contentious testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Late in the morning, Republican congressman Mark Meadows said that Lynne Patton, a former Trump Organization event planner and current official with the U.S. Department of…
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News An Abused Son Of Holocaust Survivors Finds A Cutting-Edge Treatment For PTSD
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Myron Kaliski knew he was taking a risk when he announced on Facebook that he inherited emotional suffering from his abusive Holocaust survivor father. “My father never really left the camps … and in a sense, neither have I,” Kaliski wrote. “When I didn’t do things to…
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The Schmooze An Erotic Keira Knightley Movie About Post-WWII Germany? Uh Oh.
If two people are hot and white enough, can we get past the fact that one of them is a Nazi-bystander and just enjoy watching them have sex? Yes! A trailer for the movie “The Aftermath” emphatically answers. Based on the book of the same title by Rhidian Brook, “The Aftermath” follows the true story…
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Opinion A 16-Couple Cuban Jewish Wedding, And 5 Other Happy News Stories From This Jewish Week
It’s been an immensely painful week in the world. The one-year anniversary of the mass murder of teens in Parkland, Florida arrived. The Jewish world was roiled by the controversy surrounding Representative Ilhan Omar’s tweets. The president declared a national emergency. But there was also mammoth generosity and giving this week. There was triumphant love….
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