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Fast Forward Brazilian Neo-Nazi Gets 3 Years For Baring Swastika Tattoo at Jewish Students
A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo. Luciano Silva Barreto of Rio de Janeiro’s criminal court sentenced Luiz Vinicius Consenzo, 25, after convicting him of a racist crime, according to a Jan. 22 report by CONIB, the umbrella organization…
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Fast Forward ADL Calls on Conservatives To Keep Nazi Analogies Out of Gun Debate
The Anti-Defamation League called on conservatives to keep Nazi analogies out of the gun control debate. “The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and…
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Fast Forward Greek Neo-Nazi Party Issues Diatribe Against AJC Visit
The Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn said a visit to Greece by American Jewish Committee leader David Harris is meant to ensure further “Jewish influence over Greek political issues” and safeguard the interests of “international loan sharks.” Harris, the executive director of the AJC, is leading a Jewish delegation to the region that is meeting…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Leaders Blame Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn for Racist Killing
The head of the European Jewish Congress condemned the “racist” killing of an immigrant in Athens last week, saying it was a result of Greece’s tolerance of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party. “We are witness to an increasing violence against foreigners and minorities in Greece which is the natural result of inaction by the authorities…
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News Nazi’s ‘Righteous’ Sister Has Belgium Rethinking Shoah
As the sister of Belgium’s most powerful Nazi, Madeleine Cornet knew better than to inquire about the ethnicity of the three women she hired as housemaids in October 1942. Cornet did not want to further implicate herself by hearing what she already knew: Her new hires were Jews who managed to escape the deportations that…
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Culture Three-Timing Jewish Hubby Faces the Music
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 New York City cigar maker Charles Weiss may not look…
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Fast Forward Radical Catholic Bishop Fined for Holocaust Denial
A radical British Catholic priest has been fined in Germany on charges of Holocaust denial, which is illegal in the country. The $2,400 fine against British Bishop Richard Williamson, 72, stems from an interview he gave in 2008 to the Swedish SVT broadcaster, in which he called the murder of Jews in gas chambers during…
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Fast Forward Witness Comes Forward in Most-Wanted Nazi Case
Slovak police reportedly have found a witness to corroborate charges against Laszlo Csatary, an alleged Hungarian war criminal. Csatary, 97, served during World War II as a Hungarian police commander in the Jewish ghetto of Kosice, then a part of Hungary and now in Slovakia. The investigation in Kosice focuses on Csatary’s alleged involvement in…
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