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Books Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky.
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano once likened gun control to Nazi policies before the Holocaust
In the wake of the mass shooting at a Texas school, blue states are trying to make it harder to buy assault weapons and other guns
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Opinion What part of ‘Just kill them’ does the world not understand?
Leaked documents proving China’s Uyghur genocide give the world no excuses not to act.
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Fast Forward Supreme Court sides with Jewish family in case over Nazi-looted art
The Cassirers have been fighting for years to reclaim the plundered painting, now hanging in a Spanish museum.
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News A beloved Fresno State librarian fantasized about ‘target practice’ on Jews
A new report sheds light on Henry Miller Madden's Nazi views
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Culture Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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News Chicago teacher taking indefinite leave of absence following Nazi propaganda assignment
A teacher who had assigned eighth graders to create Nazi propaganda posters as part of a Holocaust education unit, prompting complaints from the lone Jewish student in the class and her mother, is taking an “indefinite leave of absence,” according to a letter from the school’s principal. The social studies teacher, Tiffanie Reschke, had written…
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Culture Barry Manilow on dueling cantors, Levy’s Rye and his musical’s New York debut
Barry Manilow never meant to become a pop star, and his Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning career as a songwriter is a source of perennial tsuris for his lyric-writing partner Bruce Sussman. If you ask them, “Mandy” came, gave and (forget what you heard) did some taking. That breakout hit diverted the pair’s original ambition: writing…
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News ‘He was a mensch’: Slain Messianic Jew remembered as bridge-builder
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Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
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Opinion After the DC shooting it’s clear: The pro-Palestine movement must be purged of violent extremism
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Opinion This Jewish mathematician understood why Trump is a terrible poker player
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Yiddish װי האָבן ייִדישע ליטעראַטן באַטראַכט איבערזעצונגען פֿון וועלט־ליטעראַטור אויף ייִדיש?How did Yiddish literary figures perceive the translating of world literature into Yiddish?
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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News Will Jewish voters decide the NYC mayoral election?
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Fast Forward Israel announces biggest West Bank settlement expansion in decades
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Fast Forward Northern Ireland’s lone, beleaguered synagogue aims to stave off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
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