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Fast Forward Yad Vashem’s Top Historian Accepts Joint Israel-Poland Holocaust Declaration
(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
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Community Netanyahu Cares More About His Power Than About Jews
It’s not every week that the Israeli state Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issue statements rebuking the Prime Minister of Israel for distorting the historical record of one of the greatest tragedies ever to befall the Jewish people. But it did happen last week. What provoked this…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Slunk Home To U.S. After Polish Authorities Kicked Him Out
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer was stopped by authorities in Europe this week while attempting to make a surprise appearance at a conference in Sweden for young white nationalists, Think Progress reported Thursday. Spencer seemed to confirm this on Twitter, where he shared a Swedish tweet from an alt-right supporter lamenting that Spencer had been…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Slams Netanyahu For Polish Holocaust ‘Deceptions’
Israel’s main Holocaust memorial criticized as historically inaccurate on Thursday a joint statement by the Israeli and Polish prime ministers aimed at ending a dispute over Holocaust legislation in Poland. The Jerusalem-based center, Yad Vashem, challenged in particular the validity of the leaders’ assertion that the Polish underground and government-in-exile in World War Two came…
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Community What It’s Like To Wear A Yarmulke In Europe
“Traitor!” Each baseball season, I occasionally get this slightly amusing accusation from a few friends and my younger sisters. After all, I have lived in Baltimore for almost 18 years, and I still cannot bring myself to root for the Orioles. Instead, I am a huge Red Sox fan. This is true even though I…
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Fast Forward Polish PM To Amend Rhetoric Law Criminalizing Blame On Poland For Holocaust
(JTA) — In a move that observers said could defuse tensions between Israel and Poland, that country’s prime minister said he’d kick back to parliament a bill about rhetoric on the Holocaust for amendments. Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement Wednesday about a law passed in January, which criminalizes blaming the Polish nation or people for…
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Fast Forward Museum In Poland To Exhibit 40,000 Accounts Of Poles Who Saved Jews During WWII
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A new museum in Poland will exhibit over 40,000 accounts of Polish Christians who saved Jews during the Holocaust. The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will donate $22 million to the “Saint John Paul II Memory and Identity Museum,” whose goal is to present the over 1000-year history of Christian…
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Fast Forward Monument Dedicated To Hundreds Of Jews Killed In Poland During WWII
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – Local officials and residents attended the dedication of a monument to commemorate the Jews from a village in southern Poland. Dozens of people attended the ceremony on Sunday in the Jewish cemetery in Krościenko, including representatives of Jewish organizations. Dariusz Popiela, a Polish Olympian who was the 2017 national champion in…
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