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Share this story Published 38 minutes ago The scene is Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. A Jewish man just liberated from Buchenwald learns from the American Red Cross that his wife has also survived, but is in another concentration camp 200 miles north.
admin | June 16, 2021
Israel and Hamas recently reached an agreement to end 11 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip. But tension remains in Israels mixed Jewish-Arab cities. In Lod, Israeli security forces continue to guard the city weeks after rioters set fire to police cars, synagogues and homes.
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JERUSALEM (AP) Hundreds of Israeli ultranationalists, some chanting Death to Arabs, paraded Tuesday in east Jerusalem in a show of force that threatened to spark renewed violence just weeks after a war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in Gaza responded by launching incendiary balloons that caused at least 10 fires in southern Israel. Early Wednesday, Israeli aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes at militant sites in Gaza, the first such raids since a shaky cease-fire ended the war last month.
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The Speaker of the Knesset, a close ally of Netanyahu, refused to announce a date for the swearing in of the new government. By law, he has up to a week, but the largely technical process has traditionally been carried out as quickly as possible once a new government is announced. The delay is "in contradiction" to the country's democratic traditions, said Yohanan Plesner, director of the Israel Democracy Institute.
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GAZA CITY The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it had conducted airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, after officials said that the militant group Hamas had sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel from Gaza, in the first eruption of hostilities since an 11-day air war between Israel and Hamas ended last month. The Israeli military said that it struck military compounds belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which were used as facilities and meeting sites for terror operatives in Hamas Khan Yunis and Gaza Brigades
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Minks in a cage at a mink farm in Pushkino, Russia, more than 20 miles from Moscow. Yuri Tutov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Minks in a cage at a mink farm in Pushkino, Russia, more than 20 miles from Moscow. The Israeli government has banned the sale of fur in the fashion industry, becoming the first country to outlaw the controversial clothing material that opponents say leads to the slaughter of millions of animals each year.
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Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust (known as "Shoah" in Hebrew[a]), directed by Claude Lanzmann.[5] Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.[6] Released in Paris in April 1985, Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Simone de Beauvoir hailed it as a "sheer masterpiece", while documentary maker Marcel Ophls (who would later win an Academy Award for Htel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie three year later) called it "the greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made".[7] The film was not well received in Poland; the Polish government argued that it accused Poland of "complicity in Nazi genocide".[8] Shoah premiered in New York at the Cinema Studio in October 1985[9] and was broadcast in the United States by PBS over four nights in 1987. The film is concerned chiefly with four topics: the Chemno extermination camp, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw ghetto, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses and perpetrators
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The horrors of the mid-20th century destruction of European Judaism are indescribable, yet there are many words to describe it. In English, those terrible events are referred to by the word "Holocaust." The term became commonplace after 1978, when a miniseries by the same name aired on American television, bringing the carnage right into U.S. living rooms
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Now open at Kansas City's Union Station is a huge, new, historical exhibition. The exhibition is fronted by one of the freight cars that once transported hundreds of thousands of souls to the Auschwitz death camp in southeastern Poland between 1940 and 1945. "Auschwitz
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The recent violent conflict in Israel and Gaza has resulted in a dramatic increase in antisemitic acts in the United States. In some cities, Jewish individuals have been assaulted and seriously injured; others have been subjected to insults in person or on social media. In a communication to the Detroit area Jewish community last week, Federations leadership stated, An alarming statistic was shared recently by the Secure Community Network, the official safety and security organization of the Jewish community in North America: Over the past month, in the wake of Israels 11-day conflict with Hamas, antisemitic acts in the U.S
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