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Famed Vienna Orchestra Finally Admits Nazi Past

The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi war criminal two decades after the end of World War Two. The orchestra, which has come under fire for covering up its history,…

By Reuters Mar 11, 2013 | 4 min read
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Notorious Holocaust-Era Mass Rape and Murder Case Closed by Poland

A Polish governmental institute closed an investigation into the 1941 murder of 20 Jewish women in northeastern Poland, unable to name the victims or perpetrators. Prosecutors for the Institute of National Remembrance in Bialystok could not determine the names of the victims, nor did they discover the identities of six of the seven perpetrators who…

By JTA Mar 11, 2013 | < 1 min read
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Ms. Quinn Runs for Mayor

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced she was running for mayor Sunday, making official what had been all but acknowledged for months. In a whistle-stop tour of the city and a new campaign video, Quinn touted her middle-class roots and a campaign agenda that emphasizes housing and education. If she wins, Quinn would…

By Josh Nathan-Kazis Mar 10, 2013 | < 1 min read
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Marking First Anniversary of Toulouse School Rampage

Israeli leaders marked the first year since an attack on a Jewish school in France that killed a rabbi and three children. Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, met Sunday in Jerusalem with the parents of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, who was killed in the attack on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school…

By JTA Mar 10, 2013 | 2 min read
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Christine Quinn Tosses Hat in Race for New York Mayor With No Jewish Candidate

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn officially launched her candidacy on Sunday for the job that would make her the city’s first female and first openly gay mayor, in a race that has no Jewish major candidate for the first time in years. The Democratic Quinn, 46, made her announcement on Twitter, saying: “It’s…

By Reuters Mar 10, 2013 | < 1 min read
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Greek Train Enthusiast Displays Rail Cars Used in Nazi Deportations of Jews

It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for the day when he saw Nazis rounding up the city’s Jews. “My father brought me into town,” Kontopoulos, who is not Jewish, said. “We saw them being taken away. They were with their [yellow] badges.” On March 15, 1943, the…

By JTA Mar 10, 2013 | 4 min read
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J Street, Liberal Pro-Israel Group, Claims Big Win on Chuck Hagel

J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying group barely five years old and once shunned by top Israeli officials, is claiming as a victory the fact that Chuck Hagel was confirmed as defense secretary despite opposition from more conservative Jewish groups. In the week when the most influential Jewish-American group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,…

By Reuters Mar 10, 2013 | 4 min read
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Let’s Discriminate Against All The Jewish Lawyers

No one, not even the mightiest of institutions, is immune to the changes wrought by globalization, digitalization and a weakened economy. Still, I was surprised to learn recently that law schools have been particularly hard hit — so much so that they have begun to rethink the very nature of legal education and its relationship…

By Jenna Weissman Joselit Mar 10, 2013 | 3 min read

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Famed Vienna Orchestra Finally Admits Nazi Past

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Ms. Quinn Runs for Mayor

Marking First Anniversary of Toulouse School Rampage

Christine Quinn Tosses Hat in Race for New York Mayor With No Jewish Candidate

Greek Train Enthusiast Displays Rail Cars Used in Nazi Deportations of Jews

J Street, Liberal Pro-Israel Group, Claims Big Win on Chuck Hagel

Let’s Discriminate Against All The Jewish Lawyers

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Famed Vienna Orchestra Finally Admits Nazi Past

Notorious Holocaust-Era Mass Rape and Murder Case Closed by Poland

Ms. Quinn Runs for Mayor

Marking First Anniversary of Toulouse School Rampage

Christine Quinn Tosses Hat in Race for New York Mayor With No Jewish Candidate

Greek Train Enthusiast Displays Rail Cars Used in Nazi Deportations of Jews

J Street, Liberal Pro-Israel Group, Claims Big Win on Chuck Hagel

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‘The most Australian name’: Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach attack, embodies a nation’s grief

A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down

פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?

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