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Mormon Proxy Baptism Was Performed On Behalf Of Mahatma Gandhi, Researcher Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Hindu, Elie Wiesel, India, Hinduism, Video, Mohandas Gandhi, Simon Wiesenthal, Anne Frank, Reincarnation, Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Helen Radkey, Mahatma Gandhi, Lds Church, Mormon-Baptism-of-Dead, Religion News

Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously b...

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Mormons Target Anne Frank For Posthumous Baptism Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Mormon Church, Jews, Video, Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal, Anne Frank, Mitt Romney, Mormon-Baptism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormons Proxy Baptism, Politics News

Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diary and death in a Nazi concentration camp made her a symbol of the Holocaust, was allegedly baptized posthumously...

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How We Sugarcoat The Holocaust

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: The Holocaust, Anne Frank, Holocaust Survivors, Judaism, Torah, Shoah, Menachem Youlus Torah Fraud, Holocaust Torah Scrolls, Rabbi Menachem Youlus, Religion News

A sad story approached a sad conclusion last week when a rabbi pleaded guilty to fraud for falsely selling what he claimed were Torah scrolls rescued from the Holocaust to synagogues and Jewish communities.

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Don't Miss The 21st Annual New York Jewish Film Festival

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Lincoln Center, Holocaust, Israel, Anne Frank, Croatia, Poland, The New York Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Film, Mabul, Jewish Culture, My Australia, Lea and Darija, New York News

The festival showcases a vivid tapestry of the Jewish experience. Many of the films may not receive a commercial release, so now is the time to take in a screening.

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PHOTOS: 7 Famous Homes Turned Museums

BootsnAll | Posted 03.21.2012

These house museums give us a sense of what life was like in a different period and a glimpse of what went into making artists, writers and great thinkers who they were.

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Windows on the World

Gerit Quealy | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, June Sarpong, Wie Symposium, 9/11, Population 7 Billion, Eve Schloss, Anne Frank, World War II, Technology News

With the World Wide Web, we can travel across the globe in a millisecond just by opening a window.

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Creating Diary of a Young Start-Up

Louisa Leontiades | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, Anne Frank, Business Startups, Diary of a Young Start Up, Online Business, Business News

I want my business to be big. Huge! Of course, I do. But this blog is not to sell our services. This blog was designed to tell the story of my fledgling start-up.

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Tiki Barber: You Are No Anne Frank!

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Football, Holocaust, Nfl, Anne Frank, Tiki Barber, Tiki Barber Affair, Tiki Barber Anne Frank, Judaism, Religion News

I am no scholar on Anne Frank, but I do know one thing. A professional football player who hides out in his own home so the pesky media can't interview him is no Anne Frank.

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PHOTOS: 11 Most Offensive Comparisons To Hitler

Rudolph Herzog | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Comparisons to Hitler, Slidepollajax, Obama, Hitler, Dead Funny, Anne Frank, Nato, Jon Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Godwin's Law, Books News

I came across a rather intriguing concept that was put forward by the American attorney Mike Godwin. He postulated "Godwin's Law" in 1990 which states that the more heated a debate becomes, the more likely it seems that someone will be called a Nazi.

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Voices Carry

Alice Hoffman | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Women, Holocaust, Women Writers, Women Heroes, Anne Frank, Books We Love, Books News

For a young Jewish girl who wanted to write, Anne Frank was the only voice that spoke directly to me both as a reader and as a person. She was not an icon to me, but an example, and my feelings about writing echoed hers.

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Women's History Month: Women Writers On Their Female Heroes

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Women's History Month, Female Authors, Hillary Clinton, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, Feminism, Womens History Month, Books News

In honor of Women's History Month, excerpts from eight women writers on their female heroes: The novelist Lauren Lise Baratz-Logsted is the author ...

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Unknown In Life: Which Authors Died In Obscurity? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Stieg Larsson, Jane Austen, Anne Frank, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Darger, Sylivia Plath, Famous After Death, Emily Dickinson, John Kennedy Toole, Slidepollajax, Books News

It is absolutely horrible to go unappreciated. Unfortunately for these authors, most of them remained completely unrecognized during life, and did not...

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Stage Door: Compulsion

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meyer Levin, Entertainment, Public Theater, Holocaust, Theater, Anne Frank, Off-Broadway, Jewish, Broadway, New York News

A provocative drama, it's based on Meyer Levin's efforts to adapt The Diary of Anne Frank into a Broadway play.

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UN Remembers Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Shoah, Jews, Women, Human Rights, Nazi, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Genocide, United Nations, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, World War II, Crimes Against Humanity, Video, World News

As men were deported during the Holocaust, traditional gender roles changed, placing greater responsibilities upon women in the family and community in the ghettos and often making the difference between life and death in the camps.

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The Last Train to Auschwitz

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Westerbork, Jews, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Judaism, Anne Frank, Nazi Death Trains, The Netherlands, Nazi Concentration Camps, Sobibor Extermination Camp, Dutch Jews, Nazis, Holocaust Stories, Auschwitz, World War II, Religion News

Louis de Wind, a Dutch Jew, then quickly puts the two-page letter into an envelope, addresses it to his wife and, through a slit in the door of the train, pushes the letter out of the wagon, hoping that someone will find it.

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World Figures Who Died In 2010 (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Former Argentine President, Polish President Plane Crash, Politicians, Holocaust, European Union, World Leaders, Alexander McQueen, Dead World Leaders, Miep Gies, The Diary of Anne Frank, World War I, World Figures, Slidepollajax, Anne Frank, World War II, Poland Plane Crash, World News

A Polish president noted for his anti-communist stance. A British fashion designer beloved by A-list stars for his cutting-edge style. A Dutch office ...

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BLOG WATCH> Anne Frank's Twitter Account Imagined On Brooklyn Street Art

brooklynstreetart.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vango, 140 Characters, Anne Frank Diary, Social Media, Brooklyn Street Art, Twittering, Twitter, Anne Frank, Street Art, Anne Frank Twitter, Stencil Art, Arts News

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. http://4rbyf.th8.us #optimism #hope #beauty Send. 103 characters and her followers would...

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Fiction about Real People: Some Thoughts Related to Sharon Dogar's Annexed

Monica Edinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, History, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank, Children's Books, Sharon Dogar, Young Adult, Books News

Sharon Dogar's Annexed has been testing me personally. A work of historical fiction, Dogar sensitively and thoughtfully imagines what Peter Van Pels,...

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Are We Allowed To Imagine The Holocaust?

Sharon Dogar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, Sharon Dogar, Annexed, Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Anne Frank, Books News

There is no other way of reclaiming the individual stories of those who died than through an act of the imagination. How else can we do it if they are no longer here to tell of it themselves?

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Anne Frank's Classmates Shop Book In Frankfurt

mediabistro.com | Maryann Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Frank Memoir, Holocaust Memoir, Holocaust Book, Frankfurt, Holocaust, Diary of Anne Frank, New Anne Frank Book, Anne Frank, Books News

Theo Coster's book, By The Classmates of Anne Frank, will be shopped around at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Seven of Anne Frank's former classmate...

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New Anne Frank Book Expected From Weidenfeld And Nicolson

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Recently discovered letters, documents and photographs of Anne Frank and her family will form the basis of a new book acquired by Weidenfeld & Nicol...

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Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree Knocked Down

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Frank Diary, Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Netherlands, The Holocaust, Jewish Life, Anne Frank, World War II, Nazi, Amsterdam, Anne Frank Museum, Anne Frank Tree, World News

AMSTERDAM — The monumental chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis was toppled by wind and heavy rain on Mo...

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Anne Frank In Comics

CNN | Paul Armstrong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comic Books, Dairy of Anne Frank, Holocaust, Books, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank, Reading, Books News

A graphic "comic-book" version of a biography documenting the tragic life of Jewish diarist Anne Frank during the Second World War was launched Friday...

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History's Hotties: Top 7 'Historical Tweets' From Women (PHOTOS, POLL)

Alec McNayr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Helen of Troy, Mother's Day, Egypt, Anne Frank, England, Madonna, Historical Tweets, Henry the 8th, Cleopatra, Slidepollajax, Twitter History, Books News

As we've shown in previous weeks, the great men of history were desperately addicted to Twitter. Our research has discovered something else just as groundbreaking: there were important women in history before Madonna.

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Anne Frank Novel 'Sexes Up' Holocaust Victim's Story, Angers Family

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Frank Novel, Teen Fiction, Anne Frank Sex, Books, Anne Frank, Sharon Dogar, Annexed, Books News

The teenager documented her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War before her death in Bergen Belsen ...

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