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Swedish Prosecutor Identifies Suspect in Koran-Burner Murder Case
Salwan Momika, an anti-Islam activist, in Malmo, Sweden, Sept. 3, 2023. Photo: TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS A suspect has been identified in the murder of an anti-Islam campaigner in Sweden in January, the public prosecutor said on Monday, a case that the Swedish prime minister has said might have links to foreign powers. “We have a good picture of the sequence of events…
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UK Facing Growing Threat From Russia, Iran, and Terrorists, MI5 Chief Says
Director General of MI5 Ken McCallum delivers the annual Director General’s Speech at Thames House, the headquarters of the UK’s Security Service, in London, Britain, Oct. 16, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Brady/Pool via REUTERS Britain is facing an escalating threat from hostile states such as Russia, Iran, and China while the terrorism risk is “huge” with al Qaeda and Islamic State seeking to incite would-be attackers, the UK‘s…
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Fearless or foolish? Michael Roth, Wesleyan’s Jewish president, stands apart in opposing Trump’s campus policies
As he often does these days, Wesleyan University president Michael Roth recently delivered a lecture on another campus outlining all the reasons why academia should be more forcefully standing up to President Trump’s policies. He peppered the lecture with Yiddish words. He laid thick on what he called his “Jewish accent.” A colleague came up…
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Exhibit: How the horror of the Holocaust impacted American artists
דאָס איז איינער פֿון אַ סעריע קורצע אַרטיקלען אָנגעשריבן אױף אַ רעלאַטיװ גרינגן ייִדיש און געצילעװעט אױף סטודענטן. די מחברטע איז אַלײן אַ ייִדיש־סטודענטקע. דאָ קען מען לײענען די פֿריִערדיקע אַרטיקלען אין דער סעריע. אַ נײַע אױסשטעלונג אינעם עסקענאַזי קונסט־מוזײ אין אינדיאַנער אוניװערסיטעט באַװײַזט װי אַזױ אַמעריקאַנער קינסטלער האָבן רעאַגירט אױפֿן גרויל פֿונעם חורבן. ס׳רובֿ…
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Mike Johnson denounces Young Republicans’ group chat that praised Hitler as JD Vance downplays uproar
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday said Republicans “roundly condemn” a leaked group chat in which Young Republican officials joked about gas chambers, praised Adolf Hitler and used racist, antisemitic and homophobic slurs, as well as an American flag with a swastika that was found in a Republican congressman’s office. When asked whether he feared…
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The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny?
Reactions to Slam Frank, Andrew Fox’s musical satire in which Anne Frank is rewritten as a Latinx pansexual girl named “Anita,” have been mixed. Some have called it a timely, comedic takedown of cultural hypersensitivity while others see it as a shonda to the memories of Holocaust victims. In interviews, Fox has refused to break…
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Gallery in Australia Returns Painting Sold Under Nazi Duress to Heirs of German Jewish Family
The skyline of Melbourne, Australia, the capital of Victoria. Photo: Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons. Australia’s oldest gallery has returned a Nazi-looted painting to the descendants of a German Jewish family whose members were forced to sell the artwork before they fled Nazi-occupied Germany in the 1930s. The heirs of Henry and Bertha Bromberg have been fighting…
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Drama Film ‘I Is Another,’ About Top Nazi Heinrich Himmler’s Masseur, to Be Presented at American Film Market
A first look at “I Is Another.” Photo: Beta Cinema Beta Cinema has boarded international sales for Felix Randau’s German historical drama “I Is Another” about the massage therapist of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler. The film, starring Claes Bang (“The Square,” “The Great Arch”) as Himmler’s masseur, wrapped production on Sept. 3. Filming took…
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At a book-lovers’ mecca, a celebration of the Jewish Diaspora
On the left side of the ground-floor gallery at the Upper East Side’s Grolier Club — an institution that bills itself as “America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles” — you’ll find elaborately decorated, centuries-old Jewish manuscripts from the likes of Italy, France and the Iberian Peninsula. On the right, there’s a similar assortment of…
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How a Jewish schoolteacher from New Jersey made it to Hollywood and Broadway at the same time
Robert Kaplow, a retired high school English teacher, has been publishing a monthly newsletter in Metuchen, a small New Jersey town a few miles southwest of Menlo Park, where Thomas Edison set up his laboratory. Kaplow can’t match Edison’s thousand plus patents but the 71-year-old writer has had an impressive creative output. Over the years,…
