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"Not In My Name": Jewish Protesters At US Capitol Demand Ceasefire In Gaza
About a hundred protesters, many of them Jewish, protested at the US Congress today, raising slogans against Israel's offensive in Gaza and demanding that the Joe Biden administration push for a ceasefire.
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Facebook to Ban Content That Denies or Distorts the Holocaust
Facebook said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
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Donald Trump Denounces Anti-Semitism On Israel Holocaust Day
President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide.
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US Republicans Seek to Shut Door on Syrian Refugees After Paris
More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country.
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Jewish Groups Hail Auschwitz Verdict, Urge More Trials
Jewish groups welcomed the conviction Wednesday of a former Nazi SS officer known as the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' and urged justice authorities to maintain pressure on ageing war criminals.
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Hungarian Jews March in Memory of Holocaust Amid Far-Right Alarm
Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".
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Auschwitz Anniversary a Reminder of the Danger of Staying Silent
Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.
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US Congress Approves Watered-Down Bill On US-Israel Ties
US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.
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Seagram chairman, World Jewish Congress head Edgar Bronfman dead at 84
Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the Seagram Company and long-serving president of the World Jewish Congress, died at his New York home on Saturday aged 84.
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"Not In My Name": Jewish Protesters At US Capitol Demand Ceasefire In Gaza
About a hundred protesters, many of them Jewish, protested at the US Congress today, raising slogans against Israel's offensive in Gaza and demanding that the Joe Biden administration push for a ceasefire.
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Facebook to Ban Content That Denies or Distorts the Holocaust
Facebook said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
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Donald Trump Denounces Anti-Semitism On Israel Holocaust Day
President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide.
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US Republicans Seek to Shut Door on Syrian Refugees After Paris
More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept thousands more immigrants from the war-torn country.
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Jewish Groups Hail Auschwitz Verdict, Urge More Trials
Jewish groups welcomed the conviction Wednesday of a former Nazi SS officer known as the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' and urged justice authorities to maintain pressure on ageing war criminals.
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Hungarian Jews March in Memory of Holocaust Amid Far-Right Alarm
Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".
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Auschwitz Anniversary a Reminder of the Danger of Staying Silent
Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.
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US Congress Approves Watered-Down Bill On US-Israel Ties
US Congress approved legislation on Wednesday deepening US-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as the Jewish state persists in blocking some Arab and Muslim Americans from its territory.
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Seagram chairman, World Jewish Congress head Edgar Bronfman dead at 84
Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the Seagram Company and long-serving president of the World Jewish Congress, died at his New York home on Saturday aged 84.
