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The Schmooze Mark Zuckerberg Argues That Holocaust Denial Is A Freedom Of Speech Issue
In an interview with Recode on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to defend and explain away Holocaust deniers. In a heated interview with Kara Swisher marked by both parties interrupting each other and referencing Facebook’s biggest controversies, Zuckerberg brought up Holocaust denial as an example of free speech that should not be removed from Facebook. In…
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Culture How Claude Lanzmann Created Post-War European Jewish Identity
A few years ago at a conference in Paris, I was present at a lecture in French, a language that I understand well enough, but which I speak only with great difficulty. The lecture dealt with the Egyptian-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Edmond Jabès. Afterwards I wanted to ask a question, so I began speaking…
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Culture EXCLUSIVE: The Iraqi Jewish Archive Could Reshape Foreign Policy. But Its Future Is Uncertain.
This is the final installment in a series on the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a trove of items from Iraq’s exiled Jewish community currently in the United States. Previously, we examined the recent history of Iraqi Jews, the archive’s restoration and the complex argument over its ownership. Catch up with part one, “The Last Relics Of…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Celebrates Another Jewish Animal Rights Advocate: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Natalie Portman stars featured in a new video for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) Its focus? Oh, none other than Isaac Bashevis Singer. The winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1978, Singer was not only famous for his authorship and considered to be “a writer who was far ahead of…
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Culture EXCLUSIVE: In Exile, Iraqi Jews Are Desperate To Reclaim Their Artifacts — But So Is Iraq
This is the second article in a series on the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a trove of items from Iraq’s exiled Jewish community. In “The Last Relics Of Iraq’s Jewish Past Are In America. Should They Be Returned?” we explored the tumultuous 20th-century history of Iraqi Jews and the fight to return the archive to its…
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Fast Forward Greek Holocaust Memorial Vandalized Twice In Two Weeks
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The monument, located on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, was smeared in blue paint and a cross was painted on it. Tuesday’s attack is the second time that the monument has been vandalized in two weeks. The monument, a series of gravestones…
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Fast Forward Germany Increases Funding For Holocaust Survivors Globally By $88 Million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
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Community In Cologne, Archaeologists Unearth The History Of Germany’s Oldest Jewish Community
After attending the New Waves Day 2018 concert in Dusseldorf, Germany last month, I took a train to Köln, or what we know as Cologne. It was the nearest big city, and I wanted to see if the waterfront along the Rhine was as spectacular as Dusseldorf’s. But what I saw there was even grander….
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