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Krakow city official says good-luck figurines of Jews are ‘antisemitic’ and should not be sold

June 11, 2021Jesse Orine

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Journalist who vandalized Warsaw Ghetto wall is teaching British teachers about antisemitism

June 9, 2021Jesse Orine

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Brazilian parents protest teaching of new Anne Frank diary containing sexual descriptions

June 9, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Parents in Brazil are protesting a school’s teaching of Anne Frank’s famous Holocaust diary, citing what they say is sexual content inappropriate for seventh graders. In a letter sent to the management of the Sao Paulo branch of Escola Mobile, a network of private schools, more than 90 parents complained about Frank’s descriptions […]

Far-left French presidential candidate suggests Toulouse Jewish school murders were part of elections conspiracy

June 8, 2021Jesse Orine

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Vienna university announces new $9,000 scholarships for young Jewish studies researchers

June 7, 2021Jesse Orine

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Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania

June 7, 2021Jesse Orine

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David Dushman, Auschwitz liberator who drove a tank through its fence, dies at 98

June 6, 2021Jesse Orine

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David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator who drove a tank through its fence, dies at 98

June 6, 2021Jesse Orine

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator who drove a tank through its fence, dies at 98 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Arson suspected outside German synagogue

June 5, 2021Jesse Orine

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The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

June 4, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out typos and grammar mistakes in the paper of record. But there’s another category of error — the botching of a fraught historical detail — that elicits […]