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Opinion Secrets of the Schneerson Library
Why does Chabad want the Schneerson Library back so badly? While researching this week’s story recounting the latest twists in Chabad’s decades-long struggle for the library, several people offered various explanations. Somehow, they seemed too speculative to include in the story — but interesting enough to raise here. Rabbi Berel Levin, the chief librarian of…
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Fast Forward Vienna Jewish Museum Admits Showing ‘Hundreds’ of Artworks Looted by Nazis
Officials from the Jewish Museum of Vienna said that hundreds of objects in the museum’s possession were looted from Jewish families during the Holocaust. A review of the artifacts found 490 objects and more than 980 books that may have been stolen from Jewish owners, The New York Times reported Wednesday. “For historic reasons, people…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Fight Honor for Nazi-Era Puppet Ruler Miklos Horthy
Hungary’s main Jewish organization has urged the government and parliament to prevent the honoring of Miklos Horthy, the country’s Holocaust-era ruler. Horthy had “direct responsibility for the killing and destruction of several hundred thousand Hungarian Jews,” the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, said in a statement Wednesday. The statement was in reaction to…
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The Schmooze Media Giant Found Peddling Nazi Porn
Next time you reach for those Life & Style and In Touch magazines while in the supermarket checkout line, you might want to keep in mind the dark side to those gossip rags — and it goes beyond Tom Cruise’s defamation suit against them for claims that he abandoned his daughter Suri. An investigation by…
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Fast Forward 7 French Paintings Looted by Nazis Should Be Returned To Jewish Owners
A French restitution committee reportedly has recommended returning seven valuable paintings looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust from two Jewish families. The paintings are currently part of various collections in France, including the Louvre in Paris. and the museums of Tours, Saint-Étienne and Agen, but the CIVS Holocaust restitution committee determined in December that…
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Culture Author Guy Saville Imagines ‘Afrika Reich’ Where the Nazis Won
The Afrika Reich By Guy Saville Henry Holt & Co., 400 pages, $28 Recently, fictional Nazis have been enjoying a resurgence in contemporary literature. As seen in high-brow novels such as Jonathan Littell’s “The Kindly Ones,” works of young adult fiction, such as John Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” and mass market books,…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Protest Boca Raton Golf Tourney Backed by Allianz
Holocaust survivors for a third straight year protested outside a golf tournament in Florida sponsored by Allianz because of what they deem the insurance firm’s restitution failures. The survivors gathered outside the Allianz Golf Championship in Boca Raton over the weekend demanding that Allianz pay some $2 billion that the survivors say is owed to…
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Fast Forward Fresh Questions Swirl Around Nazi ‘Mascot’ Case
A war crimes investigator cast fresh doubts on the autobiographical account of a purported Holocaust survivor living in Australia who says he was a child mascot for Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, wrote to officials last week at the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,…
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