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Opinion An Impatient and Uninformed Electorate Dooms America To Repeat History
Those who don’t learn from history, as the saying goes, are doomed to repeat it. This is not just a cliché, as evidenced by the election of Donald Trump. It has happened so many times in history: A nation encounters difficulties, economic woes, wars, demographic changes, usually brought about by an incompetent or misguided leadership….
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Opinion My Late Uncle’s Memories of Germany in the 1930s Haunt Me Today
Anti-Semitism had always been a part of German culture before Hitler came to power, my great uncle Ernie Lowenstein told me. But the difference was noticeable as soon as he became chancellor. You could tell right away, he recalled. I was visiting Ernie in a retirement facility in Evansville, Indiana in the summer of 1992….
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Opinion Letter to the Editor: Jewish Tradition Does Not Support Richard Spencer Getting Punched
Recently a white supremacist, Nazi lover named Richard Spencer was punched in the face while giving a speech on camera during Donald Trump’s inauguration. This is the same Nazi lover who just recently terrorized Jewish families in Whitefish, MT, where he and his family live. In response, some well-meaning rabbis have been gathering sources and…
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Fast Forward Ask a Rabbi: Is it OK to Punch a Nazi?
Is it OK to knock out a Nazi? It’s a debate that’s been revived with unusual vigor since an unidentified assailant socked the white nationalist leader Richard Spencer right in the face last week, on camera. Now, a Hillel rabbi has entered the fray with a source sheet of biblical texts on the matter. The…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Unknown Nazi Persecution Sites Discovered by Researchers
Tens of thousands of unknown Nazi persecution sites have been discovered by researchers working on an encyclopedia of Holocaust sites for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. According to a report by the Times of Israel, researchers were tasked with creating a record of labor camps, military brothels, ghettos, POW camps and concentration camps. The…
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Opinion Why Richard Spencer Had Something to Smile About After Getting Punched in the Face
It’s okay to punch a Nazi in the face if it’s a real Nazi you are punching. And if that real Nazi is trying to do real harm to you or someone else, and by punching the person you may be able to stop it. And if there is no other choice available to you….
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Opinion How Auschwitz Can Be Both a Memorial and a Center for Education
How should we define the authentic remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which today are protected and preserved by the Auschwitz Memorial? Should we define it as: 150 buildings, about 300 ruins, including those of five gas chambers and four crematoria in Birkenau that are especially important to the history of…
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Fast Forward Ann Coulter Compares Women’s Marchers to Nazi ‘Brown Blouses’
Pink hats were the signature clothing at the Women’s March on Washington, but rightwing pundit Ann Coulter saw something more sinister behind them: brownshirts. Women’s March protests democratic transfer of power & the rts of 65 mill Americans. Remember Brown shirts? This is the Brown Blouses March. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 21, 2017 Coulter…
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