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Life My Son Already Knew About the Holocaust
Thinkstock One Sunday late last year, while on a biweekly library run with my children, I picked up an illustrated book about Anne Frank from the kids’ section. “What’s that book, mom?” my son inquired, as he cleared the shelf of Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Hardy Boys.” I quickly hid it between the stash of…
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Life Hobby Lobby’s Crusade To Take Over Public Education
Getty Images Turns out Hobby Lobby’s challenge of the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, which is now before the Supreme Court, is only one part of its crusade to blur the lines between church and state. Steven Green, president of the craft store chain, has created a bible curriculum and now a public school district…
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News Pro-Russia Jewish Mayor Critically Wounded in Ukraine Assaassination Try
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the restive eastern section of the country was shot in a suspected assassination attempt that left him in critical condition. “Today at around noon an attempt was made on the life of Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes,” officials from the city – Ukraine’s second largest –…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Warns Israel Will Become ‘Apartheid State’ Without Peace
Secretary of State John Kerry warned a roomful of world leaders that Israel could become “an apartheid state” if peace talks fail, the Daily Beast reported. Kerry reportedly made the remarks Friday during a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, which included senior officials from the United States, Europe, Russia and Japan. The Daily Beast on…
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News Back to Theresienstadt
Near the front steps of the ghetto museum, a man approaches us. I’m fumbling with a map that I’ve just bought there. When I look up, I notice his posture first. It seems typical of people who often have to ask others for something: The shoulders are hunched, the head bent downwards. He has a…
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Fast Forward Killer of Baltimore’s Esther Lebowitz Rejected in Bid for New Trial
The convicted murderer of an 11-year-old Jewish girl in 1969 will not receive a new trial, a Baltimore judge ruled. Circuit Judge Edward Hargadon in his ruling last week on the appeal by Wayne Stephen Young said jurors who found Young guilty of killing Esther Lebowitz in 1972 were adequately advised of how to try…
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Fast Forward NBA Chief: Probe of Donald Sterling Slurs Will Move ‘Extraordinarily Quickly’
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said racist remarks attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, are “truly offensive and disturbing.” Silver, who also is Jewish, said in a statement Sunday that the league will move “extraordinarily quickly” in its investigation and that Sterling has agreed not to attend his team’s opening-round…
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Fast Forward Abbas: Palestinians Will Never Recognize Israel as Jewish State
The Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a “Jewish State,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asserted. Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council during a meeting Saturday that the PLO recognized Israel as a state in 1993 and should not have to accept its religious identity, the French news agency AFP reported. He added…
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