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The Schmooze Why Daniel Radcliffe Hopes His Jewish Grandmother Never Sees His New Movie ‘Imperium’
(JTA) — In his new film, “Imperium,” Daniel Radcliffe plays FBI agent Nate Foster, who goes undercover to take down skinheads planning to set off a dirty bomb. The film, which opens Friday, is taut and exciting. It is also a movie the former “Harry Potter” star doesn’t want his 93-year-old Jewish grandmother to see….
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News ‘Trump Youth’ Group Draws on Nazi-Associations, White Supremacist Tropes
“Trump Youth,” a group for millennial Donald Trump supporters bears striking similarities to Hitler’s youth movement, and its leader urged fighting “globalists,” a term that white nationalists often associate with Jews. “Our nations have been commandeered by an international criminal cartel and this parasite is feeding on our energy. It’s in Japan, it’s in China,…
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Fast Forward Will Treasure Hunters Solve Mystery of Lost Nazi ‘Gold Train’ Once and for All?
Polish and German treasure hunters have started digging at a site in southwest Poland where they believe a Nazi-era train rumored to have gone missing is hidden – despite the skepticism of experts. Andreas Koper and Piotr Richter said last year they had located the train buried underground. According to local legend, it was carrying…
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News LISTEN: Nazi Leader Hails Donald Trump as ‘Real Opportunity’ for White Supremacists
The chairman of the American Nazi Party said a Donald Trump presidency would be “a real opportunity” for white nationalists to enter into mainstream politics. Rocky Suhayda added that whites should have their own political caucus in Congress, just like African Americans do, and that being pro-white does not mean one is bigoted. “Now, if…
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Fast Forward Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust Hero, Executed in Soviet Prison, Diaries Reveal
— Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, was executed in a Soviet prison, according to a KGB head’s diaries. The diaries of Ivan A. Serov, who ran the former Russian secret police and intelligence agency from 1954 to 1958, were discovered inside the walls of his second…
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Culture The Time When Hitler Blinked
Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany By Nathan Stoltzfus Yale University Press, 432 pages, $40 In late February and early March 1943, “Aryan” spouses in mixed marriages, primarily women, gathered in Berlin’s Rosenstrasse to demand the release of their Jewish husbands from detention. After threatening to shoot the protesters, the Third Reich unexpectedly…
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Fast Forward Family of ‘The Pianist’ Wins Suit Against Book Alleging Jewish Musician Had Nazi Ties
The family of the late Polish-Jewish man whose story inspired the Academy Award-winning 2002 film “The Pianist” has won on appeal a defamation suit over claims that he was a Nazi collaborator. According to Agence France Press, the widow and son of Wladyslaw Szpilman said Monday they have won their suit against the author and…
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News WATCH: Did Laura Ingraham Make a Nazi Salute at the RNC?
Social media users criticized conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham for appearing to make a Nazi-salute at the Republican National Convention. Ingraham concluded her Wednesday night speech, during which she praised Republican nominee Donald Trump, by waving to a cheering audience. In the beginning of the wave, her outstretched arm was reminiscent of the salute made…
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Fast Forward Rep. Max Miller says driver called him a ‘dirty Jew’ and threatened to kill his family. A local doctor turned himself in.
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News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
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Opinion Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go
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Fast Forward Mamdani tells Colbert — and a national audience — why NYC Jews shouldn’t fear him as mayor
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