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Eva Mozes Kor, Survivor Of Mengele Twin Experiments, Dies At 85

(JTA) — Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who underwent experiments in Auschwitz together with her twin sister, has died at the age of 85. Kor, of Terra Haute, Indiana died on Thursday morning in Krakow, Poland, the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center she founded said in a statement. She was in Poland with the […]

Linda Sarsour Tweets That Jesus Was Palestinian And Twitter Goes Crazy

(JTA) — Muslim political activist Linda Sarsour started a mini-Twitter war after tweeting that Jesus was Palestinian. “Jesus was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with wooly hair,” she tweeted on Saturday. This led to a more than 24-hour debate about the Jewish and Palestinian roots of […]

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