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Jewish NGO condemns ‘wholesale misappropriation’ of Holocaust amid outcry over border policy
Sean Savage
JNS
19.06.2018
“We have to learn lessons from the past, but one of the fundamental lessons is that not everything is an Auschwitz,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’
Yaakov Lappin
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Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’
Yaakov Lappin
20.06.2018
The Israel Defense Forces flew a platoon of 40 soldiers and officers to Europe, where together with American troops they parachuted down to the ground from aircraft, and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
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Jewish NGO condemns ‘wholesale misappropriation’ of Holocaust amid outcry over border policy
Sean Savage
19.06.2018
“We have to learn lessons from the past, but one of the fundamental lessons is that not everything is an Auschwitz,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Customizing Holocaust education, and applicable lessons, in America and Europe
Eliana Rudee
19.06.2018
The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.
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In Jerusalem, Austria’s Kurz says it took his country too long to own up to Holocaust
11.06.2018
“We’ve realized that Austria was not only a victim, but a perpetrator,” said Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Israel. • “To remember means also to admit the truth.”
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US Holocaust museum signs cooperation agreement with Morocco archives
16.05.2018
The two institutions will share materials on the Jews of North Africa during World War II and cooperate on future educational projects.
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Trump signs Holocaust property bill into law, angering Polish officials
10.05.2018
The legislation capped intensive efforts by Jewish groups, including the World Jewish Restitution Organization, to take immediate action while Holocaust survivors are still alive.
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Canada will formally apologize for turning away Jewish refugees in 1939
09.05.2018
“When Canada denied asylum to the 907 German Jews on board the ‘MS St. Louis,’ we failed not only those passengers, but also their descendants and community,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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US asks UN Security Council to censure ‘deeply disturbing’ remarks by Abbas
06.05.2018
The U.S.-drafted statement would have the council express “serious concern” about Abbas’s remarks, which “included vile anti-Semitic slurs and baseless conspiracy theories, and do not serve the interests of the Palestinian people or peace in the Middle East,” AFP reported.
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Jonathan S. Tobin
02.05.2018
Meet the real obstacles to peace
Abbas spews anti-Semitism, while Hamas seeks a violent “return.” So why do so many American Jews still blame the lack of peace on Israel?
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Jonathan S. Tobin
25.04.2018
Who owns ‘Never Again’?
The use of these two words associated with Holocaust remembrance by a teen gun-control advocate rankles some, but also raises questions about the meaning of memory.
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Evelyn Gordon
23.04.2018
How Holocaust education distances Jews from Israel
Many young Jewish Americans are being taught that special affection and concern for their own people is wrong. And if so, then special affection and concern for Israel—the one country on earth belonging to their own people—is doubly wrong.
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Ben Cohen
16.04.2018
The Warsaw Ghetto: The epitome of rightful resistance
As the 75th anniversary of the uprising approaches, there will be a great deal of solemn commemoration of its heroes and victims. Yet the passage of time should encourage us to think a little less mournfully.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Harold Rhode
12.04.2018
How the Holocaust became part of Israel’s mixed Jewish identity
Today, it is rare to find Israeli Jews in their 20s and younger who don’t share ancestors from both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic worlds. Israelis are so intermarried that the memory of the Holocaust has become part of the collective historical memory of the entire Jewish population of Israel.
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Current world Jewish population still falls below pre-Holocaust figures
12.04.2018
Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number similar to that in 1922.
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Never Forget
UN ambassadors visit Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day
12.04.2018
“As we witness an increase in anti-Semitism around the world and dangerous attempts to rewrite history, now more than ever we must ensure that the memories of the survivors pass on to the next generation,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
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