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Opinion Our government unwittingly applauded a man who fought for the Nazis. We must take steps to ensure it never happens again
Canada has never fully accepted that Nazi fighters immigrated to our country and live quietly among us
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News A Jewish man was charged in a plot against synagogues. His parents want you to know the whole story
Matthew Mahrer, who’s descended from a famous Holocaust survivor, desperately needed help. He’s finally getting it
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Culture This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it.
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
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Culture How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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Culture Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor
For Leslie Sussan, a 'New York Quaker Jew,' telling her dad's story is one way of trying to repair the world
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Film & TV For Ed Asner, a posthumous triumph in a less-than-triumphant final film
The actor delivers a bravura performance as a Holocaust survivor in 'The Tiger Within'
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Culture Can this traveling Holocaust museum fix Holocaust education?
An exhibit designed to be installed in schools aims to make Holocaust education more impactful
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Theater Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
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News A ‘quite religious’ anti-Zionist: Meet the Jewish Columbia student who wrangled the college newspaper’s opinion page
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News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
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Culture Viral list classifies authors as Zionist, urging people not to read their work
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Opinion I was expelled from Columbia for my activism in ’68. Here’s what student activists need to focus on next
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Fast Forward EXCLUSIVE: NYC mayor’s top Jewish adviser to depart City Hall
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Yiddish קען אַ קאַוואַליר זײַן צו גוט?Can a suitor be too perfect?
ער איז געווען שיין, גוטהאַרציק און געהאַט אַ הויז אַ פּאַלאַץ. פֿאַר וואָס זשע האָב איך זיך געקווענקלט?
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Culture He’s named after his grandfather Alfred Dreyfus (not that one)