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Austria to Honor Simon Wiesenthal with Hate-Fighting Award

In a sign of shifting political winds in Austria, a parliamentary committee has paved the way for the creation of an annual prize to encourage the fight against anti-Semitism. An amendment passed July 14 would create an award named for Simon Wiesenthal, the late Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. The winner would receive about […]

Our Pandemic Kneads Bring Back Newark Memories

Something about the pandemic has a lot of people baking bread. This is a phenomenon that I haven’t heard Dr. Anthony Fauci discuss, or even the well-scarved Dr. Deborah Birx. But I know it’s happening when I see Amazon charging sky-high prices for simple baker’s yeast, which is nearly impossible to find on supermarket shelves. […]

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