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Do we need to rethink how we teach the Holocaust?
While the focus has been on teaching the dangers of racism, many students are left in the dark about the history and motivations for this troubling period Many people argue that it is crucially important for young people to learn about the Holocaust to prevent racism and prejudice in the present day. But in a […]
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New search engine to target anti-Semitism
Meet the Sniper, an app that will scan the net using a new algorithm, looking for anti-Jewish content. Individuals will be able to check the content and take action as needed. The World Zionist Organization (WZO) is expected to launch its Sniper app, which it says is a search engine for anti-Semitic content. The Sniper […]
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Ten thousand expected at March of the Living
Some 10,000 young Jews from over 40 countries are to take part in the March of the Living at the former German Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland on 5 May. According to organizers, they will be joined by a group of Poles along a 3km-long route. In line with a long-standing tradition, […]
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VIDEO: ‘It’s not clear if the Holocaust is a reality or not,’ Iran’s supreme leader says
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday once again repeated provocative assertions about the Holocaust, defying the world on a day that it paused to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide in Europe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video in which he said America “assists the fake Zionist regime” and that when “they say in their […]
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Merkel: Anti-Semitism in Germany More Widespread Than We Thought
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe and that action is needed to “deal with it – especially among young people… from countries where hatred of Israel and the hatred of Jews is widespread.” Merkel said on her weekly podcast that anti-Semitism is more “widespread than we imagine, and […]
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Auschwitz Continues to Draw Visitors, in Poland and on Facebook
Record number of people visited the Nazi extermination camp in 2015, including over 60,000 Israelis.
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The Yom Hashoah that changed my life by Samantha Mellman
A visit to these grim sites is not for everyone, but I encourage those with the time and means to trust their faith and go. Every year, when I light a candle in memory of my grandfather’s family and the millions of Jews and non-Jews who were lost, I have the vivid recollections of the March of the Living with me.
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Holocaust survivor’s lifelong search for her dead parents
As she has done for so long, Vivianne Spiegel searches the fading photographs for her parents’ faces among the piles of bodies. She was seven years old when she saw her mother, Tauba, for the last time. It was Paris, July 1942. Her father, Moshe, a Polish shoemaker, had already been captured and turned over to […]
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March of the Living participation boosts Jewish, Zionist identity
A study sponsored by an organization that brings young people on tours of the death camps of Poland has found that its Jewish participants have higher levels of identification with Israel and are more likely to value marrying Jews than the general Jewish population. Conducted by sociologist William Helmreich of the City University of New […]
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90-year-old Auschwitz survivor triumphs in sell-out dance duet
As Eva Fahidi’s performance premiers in Berlin, the Hungarian’s newfound love of expression through movement truly proves it is never too late BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — “It’s never too late,” smiles Eva Fahidi, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who, at the age of 90, is currently starring in a sold-out duet production with a much younger […]
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