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News A German Soccer Club Recalls Two Jewish Fans On A Day Of Holocaust Remembrance
Soccer: the beautiful game. Across Europe, South America and Africa — and increasingly in North America — it’s a global byword for joy. At its best, soccer evokes images of ecstatic fans, their arms wrapped around each other, singing and reveling in the sport’s combination of grace, speed and endurance. What it’s not usually associated…
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Opinion Good News For The Jews: 5 Miraculous, Uplifting Moments This Jewish Week
Life isn’t all bad, so why should news be? Once a week, just before Shabbat, the Forward will highlight stories about Jewish joy, triumph, and pride from Jewish communities in America, Israel and all over the world. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought you joy, please send it to…
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Life When Holocaust Memories Are Too Heavy – A Survivor Considers Assisted Suicide
I didn’t lay a hand on her — all I did was propose a suicide plan. My mother broke her hip this summer, and quickly went from being a remarkably mobile 86-year-old to facing a convalescence that began with a high degree of helplessness. During her first week of rehab, when she still needed two…
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Opinion Anti-Semitic Environmentalism Is The Latest Social Justice Threat To Jews
As a young writer living in California, I find progressive spaces are practically unavoidable. I can’t walk down Santa Monica without someone suggesting I try veganism, nor go to my screenwriting group without a colleague suggesting I add a President Trump joke because Hollywood is all about the resistance. As an intersectional feminist, you’d think…
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Fast Forward Bleak View Of European Jewry’s Future Shared At Holocaust Event
(JTA) – At a Holocaust commemoration event at the European Parliament, Jewish community leaders outlined an unusually pessimistic view of European Jewry’s present and future resulting from anti-Semitism. The ceremony Wednesday at the European Parliament’s annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day event was the first such event in which European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor raised…
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Fast Forward Amid Steve King White Supremacy Scandal, Congressmen Meet With Holocaust Skeptic
Internet troll Chuck Johnson, who has said he doesn’t believe in Auschwitz and its gas chambers, met with two Republican lawmakers in Congress on Wednesday — to talk about genetics, the The Daily Beast reported. Representatives Andy Harris and Phil Roe were spotted walking with Johnson, HuffPost reporter Matt Fuller first noted Wednesday on Twitter….
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Fast Forward Israeli Divers To Search Danube River For Remains Of Holocaust Victims
(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
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Fast Forward ‘Schindler’s List’ Escape Room Opens In Greek City With Storied Jewish History
There’s a “Schindler’s List”-themed escape room in Greece — and it’s in a city that lost 96% of its Jewish population in the Holocaust. In escape rooms, participants are locked in a room and tasked with finding clues to break out. Freelance writer Margarita Gokun Silver wrote about her experience at one such room, in…
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