Holocaust

JTA — Teachers in a Texas school district were told last week that a new state law requiring them to present multiple perspectives about “widely debated and currently controversial” issues meant they needed to make “opposing” views on the Holocaust available to students. NBC News obtained an audio recording of…

Mirage News 13 Oct 2021 6:30 am AEDTDate Time As stated by Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian P. McKeon met today with Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde during their participation in the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism in Malmö,…

Topline A public school administrator in suburban Dallas told teachers who keep books on the Holocaust in their classrooms to also offer reading material on “other perspectives” last week, NBC News reported Thursday, as school districts grapple with a new Texas law restricting how teachers discuss controversial social issues. Bookshelves…

BERLIN (AP) — The burial of a Holocaust denier in the gravesite of a Jewish music professor has caused an uproar in Germany. The top German government official tasked with combating antisemitism, Commissioner for Jewish Life Felix Klein, criticized the action Wednesday, joining expressions of disbelief from some of the…

The ashes of a notorious German Holocaust denier were buried last week in a plot that once held the remains of a Jewish music scholar and that still features his gravestone, prompting church authorities to admit Tuesday they had made a mistake that needs to be rectified. Henry Hafenmayer, a…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who last year published his best-selling memoir, “The Happiest Man on Earth,” has died in Sydney, a Jewish community leader said. He was 101. “Eddie Jaku was a beacon of light and hope for not only our community, but the world,” New…

On Sept. 11, 2001, the greatest Holocaust film ever made, before or since, premiered at a festival — and quickly disappeared, largely unnoticed.   The film’s cast included Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mira Sorvino, and it was written and directed by the acclaimed Jewish actor Tim…

Republican Representative for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that an imminent vaccine mandate violated the Nuremberg Code in a series of tweets. Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccinated, and if he does so, the order would not allow an option to…

Kveller via JTA — Rachel Lipman cares deeply about preserving her Jewish family’s fifth-generation winemaking business, Loew Vineyards, but the 28-year-old is keeping an eye on the future, too. As one of the youngest winemakers in Maryland — if not the youngest — she’s pushing through boundaries in a traditionally…

Seven rare ledgers from the 19th and 20th centuries containing records of pre-Holocaust Jewish communal life in what is now Hungary have been removed from public auction and jointly purchased by the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HJMA), along with the National Library of Israel (NLI). Among the documents are…