Don’t Mention the War? Brits Can’t Help Themselves
Schedule clashes are inevitable during the festive season, and on the evening of Dec. 19, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, held Christmas drinks at...
View ArticleWhy Madonna’s Swastika Swipe May Actually Help Marine Le Pen
It’s the Material Girl vs. the “bad girl” of French politics. On July 15, officials for extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Front (FN) announced the party has decided to sue Madonna for using...
View ArticleA Muted Anniversary: Are Europeans Forgetting the Holocaust?
On Monday, France marked the 70th anniversary of the notorious July 1942 roundup and deportation of over 13,000 Jews in Paris. That so-called Vel d’Hiv operation was one of the biggest wartime mass...
View ArticleNazi-Looted Masterpieces Worth $1.35 Billion Recovered
A collection of art seized by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, and worth an estimated $1.35 billion, has been recovered in Munich, Germany. The German magazine Focus revealed on Sunday that the...
View ArticleBerlusconi: My Family Feels Like Jews Persecuted by Hitler
Silvio Berlusconi once called himself the “most persecuted man in the world,” but he has recently discovered another group of people who may understand the depths of his suffering. According to NBC...
View ArticleMeet the Nazi Hunter: Israel’s Efraim Zuroff Helps German Court Case
Efraim Zuroff never aspired to become the world’s most prominent Nazi hunter. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s, his dream was to be the first Orthodox Jew to play basketball in the NBA. That would...
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