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In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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Yiddish ייִדיש — אַ פּױלישע שפּראַך?Yiddish — a Polish language?
טייל פּױלישע לינגװיסטן טענהן, אַז במשך פֿון איר געשיכטע האָט ייִדיש זיך אויסגעפֿורעמט אונטער אַ שטאַרקער השפּעה פֿון פּױליש.
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Fast Forward WATCH: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories At Polish Nationalist Protest Of Holocaust Law
Polish nationalists demonstrated in Manhattan Sunday against a proposed U.S. law that would provide compensation to victims of the Holocaust who had their property seized during the war. Their contingent of several dozen protestors was met by a counter-protest group. The demonstration comes as there has been considerable pushback from Poland and the Polish government…
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Fast Forward Jersey City Monument To Katyn Massacre Will Be Relocated
(JTA) — A statue that commemorates the Polish victims of a World War II massacre will be relocated on the Jersey City waterfront in an agreement that ends a war of words between city officials and Polish authorities. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and the Katyn Forest Massacre Memorial Committee arrived at the agreement on Friday,…
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Fast Forward Polish Politician Wants ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet Removed From Jewish Museum
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A former Polish presidential candidate who now works as a television news host has called on the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews to apologize for putting one of her tweets on display as an example of modern anti-Semitism. Magdalena Ogórek in a tweet on Monday called the display…
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Fast Forward Polish Group Wears Nazi Uniforms, Burns Swastika; Government Will Investigate
A television report in Poland that exposed neo-Nazis celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday and burning a swastika has lead to an official investigation and a government denunciation. The original report was broadcast by the station TVN24 over the weekend and focused on a neo-Nazi group named Pride and Modernity. This is the same group that held…
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Fast Forward 27 Concentration Camp Letters Written In Urine Expose Gruesome Nazi Medical Experiments
Some 27 letters written in urine by Polish women inmates to report on gruesome medical experiments performed on them by Nazi concentration camp doctors have been given to a small museum in Poland to be preserved. The letters, which informed the world about the deadly experiments made on 74 women at the Ravensbrueck camp in…
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Food How Polish Jews Used Matzo to Thwart Anti-Semitism
If the head of a major Polish TV station is to be believed, Jews are behind anti-government protests in Poland — and are handing out matzo outside Parliament to egg on demonstrators. Those are the allegations that were made in a poem written and read on Poland’s state-funded TVP2 television network last week by Marcin…
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