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Fast Forward Church moves to cover Philadelphia monument to a Nazi military formation — temporarily
The decision follows the Forward’s reporting last month on the existence of the monument in a local cemetery
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Fast Forward Andy Samberg plays a famous Jewish WWII photographer in upcoming biopic
In 'Lee,' the Jewish comedian plays David E. Scherman, who along with Lee Miller captured the early horrors of the Holocaust
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Culture How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them
The letters were hidden in plain sight at Yad Vashem. Most of their writers’ families had never seen them. Until now.
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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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Forverts in English A summer reunion in the country, Jewish socialist style
Camp Hemshekh, which closed in 1978, was the summer home for hundreds of campers, many of them children of Holocaust survivors
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Fast Forward Newly discovered document lists more than 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church sheltered from Nazis
The discovery sheds new light on the Vatican’s actions during the Holocaust, but some historians have questions
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Fast Forward The Holocaust wasn’t fueled by antisemitism, Hitler hated Jews for their money, says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Speaking at a conference, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced an antisemitic justification for Hitler and the Nazis
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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News One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
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