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The Schmooze Macklemore Dresses Up as Stereotypical Jew
Really, Macklemore? A big Jewish nose? Subtle. On Friday night, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed a secret show in their hometown of Seattle in honor of a new exhibit at the city’s EMP Museum. As Gawker points out, this would not have been news if it had not been for Macklemore singing “Thrift Shop” while…
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News For Some Dutch Jews, Limburg Province Was Refuge in Storm of Holocaust
(JTA) — In her nightmares, Tilly Walvis pictured German soldiers storming the house where she was hiding and deporting her children and the Christian couple sheltering them. Walvis had good reason to fear. At the time, her family was living in the home of Albert and Frederika Santing in Hoensbroek, a Dutch town in the…
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Fast Forward At the Height of World War II, Dutch Jews Found an Unlikely Refuge
(JTA) – In her nightmares, Tilly Walvis pictured German soldiers storming the house where she was hiding and deporting her children and the Christian couple sheltering them. Walvis had good reason to fear. At the time, her family was living in the home of Albert and Frederika Santing in Hoensbroek, a Dutch town in the…
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The Schmooze Are Your Kids Playing Jews vs. Nazis Beer Pong?
Let’s be real: good old-fashion beer pong got boring a long time ago. Well, some High School students have decided to get inventive and reconfigure the cups a bit to look something like this: “This is what we play at parties. Jews vs. Nazis” -Cape Coral HS pic.twitter.com/ol8FcztcjQ — HighSchoolConfession (@HSConfessionaI) April 27, 2014 The…
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Fast Forward Nazi Propagandist’s Book Used in Austria Test for Recent Graduates
(Reuters) — Two senior Austrian educators will step down over a scandal in which a test administered to graduating high school students featured an essay by a Nazi apologist, the latest in a series of missteps in awarding high school diplomas. Following a high-profile data leak and a failure to communicate new grading scales, the…
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Fast Forward Turkish Tourists Freed After Making Majdanek Nazi Salute
A court in Lublin, Poland, conditionally dismissed charges against two Turkish tourists accused of making a Nazi salute at Majdanek, the former concentration camp, placing them on two years’ probation. The ruling Wednesday regarded Mesut T., 24, and Mehmet A., 21, former students at the Technical University of Lublin. In October, while on a visit…
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Opinion Was Amos Oz Right About ‘Hebrew Neo-Nazis’?
An extremist Jew is arrested at a 2012 rally for ‘price tag’ attacker comrades / Getty Images Over at Tablet, Liel Leibovitz is unhappy that Israeli author Amos Oz is going around calling violent Israeli settlers “Hebrew neo-Nazis.” He claims Oz’s statement suffers from “a logical flaw,” one that has “more to do with philosophy…
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Culture Fiction Meets Reality in Croatian Novel About Nazi’s Son
● Trieste By Daša Drndić, Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 368 pages. $27 In Gorizia, near Trieste, near Italy’s border with Slovenia, an 83-year-old woman named Haya Tedeschi has been waiting 62 years — since 1944 — for the return of her abducted little boy, Antonio. For years she has…
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