Booking.com drops Swiss hotel that featured signs singling out Jews
The online reservations giant told a spokesman for the Simon Wiesenthal Center that "we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind."
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Mike Pence commemorates Holocaust, terrorism victims in Argentina
The vice president said he prayed in memory of the 114 victims of Buenos Aires attacks in the 1990s.
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Swiss lawmakers to vote on banning import of kosher, halal meat
Switzerland already has a partial ban on producing kosher meat.
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Polish historian seeks to exhume bodies of Jews murdered by neighbors in 1941
The request, a plea by a historian from Bialystok, comes amid growing revisionism and denial of culpability by Poles for the Jedwabne massacre.
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Knife-wielding motorist in France suspected of threatening to ‘kill the Jew’ in front of his family
The driver nearly hit a couple and their baby in Cannes before exiting his car with the weapon, a watchdog group said.
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Swiss hotelier sorry for signs telling Jews to shower before entering pool
The manager also said the hotel had received complaints about Jewish guests, "so we need to be responsible for all our guests and find a balance.”
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This Holocaust monument in Belarus is haunting — and subversive
Designed by a Jewish architect when state anti-Semitism was unofficial policy, the Khatyn complex features a rare depiction of individual grief amid Soviet pomposity.
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Netanyahu plans to become first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America
He would be the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America.
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Lithuanian president ignores congressmen’s protest over planned project atop Jewish graves
Dalia Grybauskaitė in response cited the approval given by a Jewish community leader and a cemeteries panel, but critics say both are tainted.
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Dutch historians find marriage certificate of Jewish Holocaust victims hidden in a chimney
A historical center near Amsterdam is searching for relatives of the couple, whose two children also perished.
