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  • Weekly roundup of world briefs

    Jan 21, 2022

    Ohio GOP Congressman posts Nazi health card in attack on DC vaccine mandate By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Warren Davidson, a Republican Congressman from Ohio, posted a photo of a Nazi-era health pass and compared Washington, D.C.’s vaccine mandate to the Nazis’ dehumanization of Jews in urging local residents not to comply. Jewish groups and Jewish Democrats blasted Davidson for the comparison, which appeared in a tweet commenting on new vaccine instructions shared by Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser. “This has been done before,” Davidson...

  • Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch leads Germany's Jews into an uncertain future

    Cnaan Liphshiz|Jan 21, 2022

    MUNICH (JTA) — Walking alongside two young men around this city’s main synagogue, Charlotte Knobloch looks like a Jewish grandmother enjoying a stroll with her grandsons. Knobloch, the 89-year-old president of the Jewish Community of Munich and upper Bavaria and likely the only Holocaust survivor leading a large Jewish community today, is indeed a grandmother of seven. But the men are not related to her. They are police officers belonging to a security detail that was assigned to her years ago...

  • The billionaire who cared about Israel and the Jews

    Jonathan S. Tobin|Jan 21, 2022

    (JNS) - Every age has its own narrative myth about those who acquire great wealth. In the 21st century, the prevailing story is that of the nerd who parlays technological genius into billions. The Big Tech oligarchs who make their way onto the Forbes' billionaire list are envied and feared. But with only a few conspicuous exceptions, their posh lifestyles, liberal politics and donations to fashionable and politically correct charities generally protect them from the worst abuse that pop culture...