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Fast Forward Sale Halted Of Ledger With Eyewitness Accounts Of Holocaust Deaths
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The auction of a rabbinical court ledger that documents eyewitness accounts of the deaths of Jews in Nazi camps has been put on hold. The auction of the Bergen-Belsen ledger was scheduled to start on Tuesday night at the Kedem auction house in Jerusalem. But the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court put a…
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Fast Forward University Removes Professor For Assigning Question On Whether Holocaust Happened
(JTA) — A university in Chicago has removed a faculty member from a course after a marketing assignment included a question on whether the Holocaust happened. National Louis University is investigating the incident, NBC Chicago reported. The assignment was designed to spot bad survey questions and to fix them, according to Inside Higher Education. The…
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Israel News Rabbis At Bergen-Belsen Used This Ledger To Help Holocaust Survivors Remarry
Update, 9:30 a.m.: The auction has been put on hold. A court in Tel Aviv put a hold on the sale after a lawsuit was filed by the Organization of Bergen-Belsen Survivors in Israel. Read more at this link. A ledger meant to free people from marriage to spouses who were missing and presumed dead…
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Fast Forward Mayor Pete Was Totally ‘That Guy’ Posing At Holocaust Memorial
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg was criticized on social media on Sunday after a 2017 photo was resurfaced that showed him posing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. is this….at the holocaust memorial in berlin…. pic.twitter.com/8bvmz9Zs7z — ben kesslen (@benkesslen) November 18, 2019 The photo, taken by his husband Chasten in 2016,…
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News 91-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – At 91, Holocaust survivor Andor Stern no longer fears the Nazis who imprisoned him in Auschwitz. Living in his native Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest metro area of nearly 25 million, what scares him today are burglars – his modest house has been broken into twice in the city where he…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He’ll Donate To Holocaust Museum After Court Shuts Down His Charity
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he would pay $1.8 million to several charities, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, after losing a civil court case over his misuse of his charity to get elected. Trump made a statement about the payment on Thursday, after a New York judge ordered him to pay $2 million…
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Fast Forward Florida School Board Fires Principal Who Said He Was Neutral On The Holocaust
(JTA) — The high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida who told a parent that “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened” was fired. The Palm Beach County School Board voted 5-2 to terminate William Latson’s employment, according to minutes of the meeting posted online. His firing will take effect on November 21. The board found…
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News Bennet at J Street: My Mother Is Jewish But Didn’t Raise Me That Way
Two sons of Holocaust survivors who both happen to be running for the Democratic presidential nomination took different tacks about their Jewish identities in visits Monday to the J Street convention, perhaps the largest annual gathering of leftist American Jews. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has often been criticized for playing down his Judaism,…
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