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Fast Forward Republican Lawmaker Invoked Oskar Schindler In Email About Loophole Allowing Anti-Gay Discrimination
A Republican Congressional candidate invoked Oskar Schindler with reference to his own anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative work, according to a report in the Huffington Post. As a North Carolina State Senator, Dan Bishop attempted to establish a loophole in anti-discrimination legislation by declaring that North Carolina residents could be exempt from state laws if they felt that…
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Fast Forward Florida Principal Removed After He Said He Needed To Be Neutral On Whether The Holocaust Happened
(JTA) — A high school in Boca Raton, Florida, removed a principal who told a parent that he needed to remain neutral on whether or not the Holocaust occurred. The Palm Beach County School District said in a statement Monday that it was aware of remarks made by William Latson in 2018 and had instructed…
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Fast Forward Florida Principal: Holocaust Is Not A ‘Factual, Historical Event’
(JTA) — A high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, told a parent that inquired about the school’s educational plan for teaching the Holocaust that “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.” Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson wrote in an April 2018 email that “the curriculum is to be introduced but not forced upon…
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Fast Forward Swedish Neo-Nazis Disrupt Exhibition Of Holocaust Survivors’ Portraits
(JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Sweden blocked the entrance to an exhibition of portraits of Holocaust survivors and intimidated visitors already viewing the display. In the incident Tuesday in the southern city of Visby, several men from the Nordic Resistance Movement gathered outside the venue displaying the exhibition “Fading Stories – pass them on” by the…
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Culture How Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Anticipated The Holocaust
Editor’s Note: Franz Kafka was born on this day, July 3, 1883. Anne Roiphe examines the prescience of the author’s “Metamorphosis.” ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The famous first line of this haunting tale is hard to forget and painful…
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Fast Forward Second Mass Grave Of Jewish Holocaust Victims Discovered In Romania
(JTA) — A second mass grave of Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II was discovered in northeast Romania. The human remains were found near the village of Popricani, the site of a massacre of Jews carried out by Romanian troops allied with the Nazis. In 2010, a mass grave containing 16 bodies…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Get A Raise Under New German Compensation Agreement
(JTA) — The spouse of a Holocaust survivor will continue to receive a monthly pension for nine months after the survivor’s death under new agreements with the German government. The agreements negotiated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany also provides a $50 million increase in funding for social welfare services for survivors,…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Of Historians Tell Holocaust Museum To Reverse Anti-Analogies Stance
Hundreds of historians have signed an open letter asking the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to reverse its opposition to analogies between the Shoah and modern events. The letter, which was published in the New York Review of Books and delivered to the museum on Monday, was prompted after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant detention…
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