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Fast Forward Jewish Descendants Can Sue Germany For Return Of Nazi-Looted Guelph Treasure
(JTA) — A U.S. district court has cleared the way for descendants of Jewish art collectors to sue Germany in the United States over objects allegedly obtained from their ancestors under duress during the Nazi era. The ruling comes three years after a German investigative commission found that the owners of a collection – known…
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News Rent A Jew Brings Real, Live Jews To German Students
Do Jews get a discount when they buy a car? Do they own McDonald’s? Do Jews control the media and international banking? Do any of them live here anymore? These are among the questions German schoolchildren ask Jews who volunteer in a new outreach program with the provocative name “Rent A Jew.” The Jews in…
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Breaking News U.S. Holocaust Museum To Give Angela Merkel Elie Wiesel Award
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will bestow its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her work advancing Holocaust awareness. “Chancellor Merkel has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to making the preservation of Holocaust memory a priority for Germany,” said Tom Bernstein, who chairs the council governing the…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Splashed Across Twitter By Hackers
Pro-Turkish government hackers broke into prominent Twitter accounts Wednesday and used them to fire off swastikas in a campaign to smear Germany and Holland. Amnesty International, BBC North America and Justin Bieber’s Japan account were among the slew of hacked users. The British magazine the New Statesman explained that the hacking relates to Turkey’s recent…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise 16% In Berlin
BERLIN (JTA) – With anti-Semitic incidents reportedly on the rise in Berlin, Jewish leaders in the German capital are renewing their call for an official federal commissioner to deal with the problem. The Berlin-based Research and Information Office on Anti-Semitism, founded in 2015, reported Monday that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany’s capital has risen by 16 percent in 2016 over the previous…
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Breaking News Dachau’s Stolen Front Gate Reading ‘Work Makes You Free’ Returned To Site
(JTA) — The iron gate of the Dachau Nazi camp, which bears the message “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work sets you free,” was returned to the site after being stolen more than two years ago. At a ceremony Wednesday, the gate was welcomed back to Dachau, where a replica was installed since the original was…
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Breaking News Angela Merkel Scraps Cabinet Meeting With Israel Over Settlements
BERLIN (JTA) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has canceled a planned top-level joint Cabinet meeting with Israeli leaders, reportedly out of frustration over Israel’s controversial new settlements law. The binational consultation was set for May 10 in Jerusalem. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Merkel’s office offered the September national elections in Germany as the reason for the cancellation, but the chancellor appears…
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Fast Forward German Far Right Expels Leader Who Criticized Berlin Holocaust Memorial
Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) members voted on Monday to expel one of the party’s state leaders who criticized a memorial in Berlin to victims of the Nazi Holocaust and said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims. The AfD is expected to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag federal lower house…
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