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LITHUANIANS STILL DENY PARTICIPATION IN THE HOLOCAUST
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff

While many would believe that Lithuania “is doing an excellent job of commemorating the destruction of its Jewish community” the world’s top Nazi hunter today warns that “nothing could be further from the truth” and cautions not to allow the Baltic country “to whitewash their complicity in the murder of over 95% of its Jews.”
LITHUANIANS STILL DENY PARTICIPATION IN THE HOLOCAUST
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JEWISH PRIDE DEFIES THIS ANCIENT HATRED
By Alex Ryvchin

Fast forward from the writer’s youth in Sydney, Australia, where a neighbour would bellow night after night from his balcony “Hitler didn’t finish the job; I will finish it for him” to October 2022 with his 2-year-old daughter exposed to a large swastika scrawled on her childcare centre, the writer delves into the world’s oldest hatred.
JEWISH PRIDE DEFIES THIS ANCIENT HATRED
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THE OCTOBER I DIDN’T GET MARRIED
By Jonathan Feldstein

In light of today’s uncertain future for Jews in Russia, the writer reflects back to 1985 when as an American citizen, he proposed to a Jewish refusenik to help get her and her family out of the Soviet Union that was persecuting its Jews. With letters and calls monitored by the KGB, read this riveting account of “my little battle” seeking the freedom “of at least one family.”
THE OCTOBER I DIDN’T GET MARRIED
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