Holocaust

The museum will decide whether or not it can accept the terms of the new lease by Oct. 27. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA  OCTOBER 22, 2020 05:11 A model of the Great Choral Synagogue in Riga is pictured in the Ghetto museum in Riga February 27, 2015. Decades after destruction by…

Who is Jeremy England? There are many answers to that question. He is a biochemistry graduate who became an MIT assistant professor in physics when he was 29 years old. He is an ordained rabbi. He is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He is a descendant of the first life-form…

Ahead of the new “Borat” film’s Oct. 23 release on Amazon Prime, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in character as Borat, where in addition to showing off a clip from the film, he attempted to administer an extremely incorrect kind of coronavirus test to Kimmel. He…

John Olive spent the bulk of this week’s new episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” discussing some of the disturbing potential ramifications of Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. But before diving into the deep end, Oliver cracked some jokes about some of…

Facebook’s moderation policies continue to rile up lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri on Saturday becoming the first GOP senator to openly call for the breakup of the company. “I’ve had enough. Break Facebook up already. It’s time,” Hawley tweeted. “I’ve fought…

Producers of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm” and Amazon Studios have been sued by the estate of Holocaust survivor Judith Dim Evans, who says she was interviewed by the star under false pretenses and appears in the film without her permission, despite that Baron Cohen broke character and revealed…

A woman lies dead, decapitated by a passing taxi on a Paris street. Or maybe she is just dreaming. For a moment, she is window-shopping in Paris, but then she is in her lover’s bedroom in New York and her grandmother’s apartment in prewar Budapest. Dead and alive, American and…

Twitter today followed Facebook’s lead in confirming that yes, it will remove any post on the site that denies or distorts the Holocaust. Specifically, it will remove “attempts to deny or diminish” any violent events on the platform. Unlike Facebook, Twitter didn’t make a policy change specifically for Holocaust denial.…

Topline The German government will pay $662 million to Holocaust survivors worldwide who are struggling because of the pandemic, the persecution they have faced and their age, the organization that negotiates compensation with the government said Wednesday. Holocaust survivors Dmitry and Svetlana Kazavchinski at home in Modiin, Israel on April…

Facebook will ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide.CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new policy on Monday, in the company”s latest attempt to take action against conspiracy theories and misinformation ahead of…