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Fast Forward German Migrants Must Visit Nazi Camps To Stop Anti-Semitism: Jewish Council
BERLIN (Reuters) – New migrants to Germany must visit Nazi concentration camp memorials to help tackle a perceived rise in anti-Semitism, Germany’s Central Council of Jews said on Wednesday, supporting a proposal by a Palestinian-German politician. Anti-Semitism remains a sensitive issue in Germany more than 70 years after the end of the Nazi-era Holocaust, in…
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Fast Forward Far-Right German Party Demands Place On Holocaust Memorial Board
(JTA) — Now that it has made it into the Bundestag, Germany’s strongest right-wing populist political party is insisting on claiming its place on the board of the foundation for the national Holocaust memorial in Berlin. The initiator of the foundation and memorial itself, Lea Rosh, has rejected the idea out of hand, the Tagesspiegel newspaper…
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Community Is Ultra-Orthodoxy A Response To The Holocaust?
In recently watching Neflix’s somewhat controversial yet highly compelling documentary, “One of Us,” which traces the path of three Hasidic Jews who leave the fold, I was struck by a particular observation made by Chani Getter, who is herself a counselor and former Hassid and the director of Footsteps, an organization that helps former Hasidim…
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Community This Cartoon Poignantly Illustrates How We Experience Inherited Trauma
“Science aside, no one needs to prove to me the provenance of passed down suffering.” See more of the self-loving Jew on his website.
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Fast Forward Dutch Holocaust Survivor Told To Pay Taxes On Child Slave Labor Pension
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch tax authority is seeking payment from an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor for a pension stipend that she is receiving from Germany for her employment as a child in forced labor. The Tax and Customs Administration demanded in summer that Inge Prenzlau pay a portion of her $156 monthly compensation stipend from…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Reparations At Risk After Lithuanian Court Voids Election Results
(JTA) — In an unusual move, a Lithuanian court voided the local Jewish community’s April internal elections, declaring that communal bosses have no legal authority to continue their rule. The Dec. 21 ruling by Vilnius District Court, which is the first of its kind in years in Europe, is the latest development in the fight…
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Fast Forward He Said Berlin Didn’t Need A Shoah Memorial. So They Built One In His Backyard.
Activists have built a model of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial outside the home of far-right German politician Björn Höcke after he said the country shouldn’t have a World War II museum in its capital. At a rally in Dresden in January, Höcke called on Germans to make a “180 degree” turn in the way they viewed…
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Fast Forward Mormons Are Still Posthumously Baptizing Holocaust Victims
Mormons are continuing to posthumously baptize Holocaust victims — despite church rules that are meant to restrict the ceremonies only to a member’s ancestors. This discovery was made by a former Mormon and researcher Helen Radkey and shared with the Associated Press. The church, in a statement to the AP, acknowledged the ceremonies violated its…
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