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Yiddish World Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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News Meet the Auschwitz survivor saluted by George Santos in Congress
Some doubted her story was real. But it is, and it will break your heart
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Opinion On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, remember the non-Jewish Holocaust victims too
Recognizing other groups persecuted by the Nazis does not diminish Jewish persecution, but gives necessary context
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Opinion I discovered a long-lost relative who survived the Holocaust in Soviet gulags
Jews who survived under Stalin rather than Hitler are largely absent from mainstream film and literature
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Books They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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Culture Pop artist Peter Max’s court battles are a clash between children of Holocaust survivors
Daughter Libra Max says a court-appointed guardian is keeping her Berlin-born father isolated in his Upper West Side apartment
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Culture How a Holocaust survivor helped win the fight for abortion rights
Five years after her death, Simone Veil is back in the news — in France and the US
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Culture I ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel orders
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News How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
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Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
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Opinion Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians
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Fast Forward For Israelis under Iranian barrage, deadly nights alternate with days brimming with life
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Fast Forward Their counselors stuck in Israel, US Jewish camps are putting out ‘Help Wanted’ signs
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