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Fast Forward A Nazi Is Running For Congress, Again. Unlike In 2018, The GOP Is Challenging Him In The Primary.
Arthur Jones, an avowed anti-Semite and the former leader of the American Nazi Party, is running for Congress as a Republican in an Illinois district — again. In 2018, Jones won the Republican primary for Illinois’s heavily Democratic third district, which covers southwestern suburbs of Chicago, after no other candidates ran against him. In the…
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Culture The Warrior Skeleton Claimed By Nazis — And Then By Soviets
The skeleton of the unknown warrior lay beneath the courtyard of a ninth-century Czech castle, one hand on the pommel of an iron sword. 1,000 years after his death, his life became the subject of speculation in the emerging field of race science — with potential global consequences. Two great powers strained to link the…
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Fast Forward Austrian Hotel Sues Tourist Who Complained About Their Nazi Portraits
An Austrian hotel sued a German traveler who complained online about finding a portrait of a Nazi in the lobby, The Guardian reported. A man and his wife checked into a four-star hotel in the Tyrolean Alps in August and immediately noticed two unsettling framed photos: one of a young man wearing a uniform with…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Looted Art Returned To Heirs Of German-Jewish Art Collector
(JTA) — Germany returned two Nazi-looted late medieval panels to the heirs of a Jewish art collector. The predella panels, found at the base of an altar, were owned by businessman Harry Fuld Sr. Dating from about 1455, the works by the Italian artist Giovanni di Paolo depict two scenes of the life of St….
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Fast Forward German Concentration Camps Should Offer Tours In Arabic, Jewish Leader Says
BERLIN (JTA) — Concentration camp memorials in Germany should offer tours in Arabic, Germany’s main Jewish leader urged. Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the Welt am Sonntag weekly newspaper that the former concentration camp in Flossenbürg is already considering adding tours in Arabic. “This should be expanded to…
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Fast Forward School Disciplines Students Who Performed Nazi Salute, But Won’t Reveal How
After a video surfaced of California students performing a Nazi salute and cheer, the school system condemned the incident, yet refused to confirm how its students were disciplined, the Washington Post reported. On Monday, The Daily Beast published a video of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove in which…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Capital’s Last Synagogue Shuts Down
(JTA) — The Jewish Community of Lithuania temporarily closed the only functioning synagogue of the capital Vilnius, citing security issues that may be connected to a debate about the honoring of Nazi collaborators. “The Lithuanian Jewish Community has received threatening telephone calls and letters in recent days,” Faina Kukliansky, the chairwoman of the community, wrote…
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Fast Forward Jewish-Owned Miami Food Truck Vandalized With Swastikas
(JTA) — Swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish-owned food truck in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. The act of vandalism on the Bao Wow Burgers Bruh food truck was reported on Friday afternoon. It happened in the same week that a man was shot as he waited to enter a synagogue in Miami Beach,…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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