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JTA — Last month, Francois Amalega Bitondo was standing on a Montreal street, megaphone and cellphone in hand, protesting against COVID-19 vaccines. A bright yellow six-pointed star stood out against his black T-shirt. The star, which read “unvaccinated,” was an explicit reference to the yellow Stars of David that Jews…

Author of the article: Dalson Chen Publishing date: Sep 03, 2021  •  September 3, 2021  •  10 minute read  •  101 Comments Protesters against Ontario's incoming 'vaccine passport' at Toronto City Hall on Sept. 1, 2021. Photo by Peter J. Thompson /National Post “NO JAB,” declared a sign — one…

(JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit seeking to recognize Jews who suffered under Vichy race laws in Morocco as Holocaust victims entitled to state compensation payments on Thursday, according to a report in Haaretz. A panel of three justices refused to hear the case, upholding a lower court’s…

JTA — Following an international outcry, Amsterdam said its city-owned museum should return a Wassily Kandinsky painting that it had acquired from a Jewish family that was under duress during the Holocaust. Possession of “Painting with Houses,” which is believed to be worth at least $22 million, should be transferred…

But Massie’s example got an extra burst of attention after one of his interns resigned in a letter that he posted to Twitter, where it went viral. By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA   AUGUST 28, 2021 04:23 Rep. Thomas Massie (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) (JTA) — Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie was far…

Steve Braunias meets a Holocaust survivor in St Heliers. If the worst the 21st century can throw at us is the Covid pandemic and its infectious little variants, then good. Not even its lethal glycoproteins Read More

August 27, 2021 marks 79 years since the Sarny Massacre, a two-day execution in the Nazi-occupied city of the same name in Ukraine that saw the deaths of some 14,000-18,000 Jews. The city of Sarny, located today in Rivne Oblast in Ukraine, had been part of Poland from 1919 until…

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was criticized for tweeting a meme showing an image of a person's wrist tattooed with a concentration camp identification number as a way to oppose coronavirus vaccine mandates.  The tweet was later removed by Twitter or deleted by Massie himself, but screenshots were widely shared by…

“It’s time for us to resist,” Rand Paul says, railing against vaccine and mask mandates, “lockdown measures,” and other pandemic interventions, in a new video making the rounds on social media. “They can’t arrest all of us.” The video, defiantly titled “Do Not Comply,” has more than 105,000 views on…

JTA — Praises for Adolf Hitler were etched on a grave-shaped monument in Poland for Holocaust victims whose bodies were burnt. Meanwhile, in Spain, police arrested a man whom they say was filmed spraying swastika graffiti at the entrance to a synagogue in Madrid, the news Madrid 24 Horas reported…