Holocaust

(RNS) — Last week, the executive director of curriculum and instruction in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, told teachers that a new state law required them to present multiple perspectives about “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. This means that they needed to make “opposing” views on…

A Texas school district official told educators if they kept books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they would have to also offer “opposing” viewpoints in order to comply with a new state law. In an audio clip obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and…

A Texas school administrator's suggestion to include "opposing" views in teaching about the Holocaust, in order to comply with Republican Governor Greg Abbott's anti-critical race theory law, has been met with outrage. Abbott is pictured during a meeting in Austin, Texas on July 10, 2021. Tamir Kalifa/Getty A Texas school…

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…