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Opinion Using Ex-Nazis as Spies? I Saw It Happen.
Hubertus Strughold worked for Hitler’s Luftwaffe throughout World War II — and was later recruited by the U.S. / U.S. Air Force I got an email the other day from a Jewish man who saw something in Germany 60 years ago that he can’t forget. The man reached out to me after reading my story…
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Opinion Switzerland Begins To Confront Its Own Holocaust Past
What will it take for Switzerland to emerge, at long last, from the shadows of the Holocaust? The question comes up, yet again, with two recent news items. First, a Holocaust survivor family has filed suit in both Switzerland and the United States, alleging that restitution payments for family art stolen by the Nazis went…
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Fast Forward American Tourist Wearing Star of David Attacked in Cologne
An American tourist was robbed and called a “Jewish bastard” by youths after he asked them for directions in the Cologne train station. Police are seeking witnesses to the incident, which took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday. On the same weekend in Cologne, some 5,000 people reportedly participated in a major anti-Muslim demonstration, mostly…
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The Schmooze Watch Orange Is The New Black’s Big Boo Confront a Subway Preacher
Any fan of “Orange Is The New Black” knows not to mess with Big Boo. A New York City subway preacher learned that the hard way when actress Lea DeLaria, clad in “Bad Jew” t-shirt, confronted him about his homophobic views. A passenger on the Queens-bound M train grabbed a video of DeLaria telling the…
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Life New York’s First Female Crime Boss
The press called her a “Queen Among Thieves” and the person who “first put crime in America on a syndicated basis.” In 1884, The New York Times named her “the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime in New York City.” During the Gilded Age, Fredericka Mandelbaum, a German-Jewish immigrant, rose to power…
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The Schmooze Ben Stein Calls Obama ‘Most Racist President’ Ever
Anyone? Anyone? In a (sadly) non “Ferris Bueller”-related interview with Fox News, economist and author Ben Stein called President Obama the most racist president ever. “He is purposely trying to use race to divide America,” Stein told Fox news. Stein was on to discuss the main issue on voters’ minds today: the economy. A Fox…
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Opinion Our ‘Car Talk’ Rebbe in God’s Auto Repair Shop
“Car Talk” hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi It’s a stereotype, but Jewish men have an ancient and mostly well-earned reputation for not being able to fix things. (There have been many notable exceptions to this, including my father, who could fix anything). I have done my best to uphold this proud tradition of our people….
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The Schmooze Jewish Stars Say Goodbye to Oscar de La Renta
Getty Images Who else could bring Henry Kissinger, Ralph Lauren and Barbara Walters together in the same place, at the same time? Jewish A-listers bid a sad farewell to Oscar de La Renta on Monday. The service, held at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City’s Upper East Side, saw politicians, actors,…
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Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
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News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
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Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
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