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US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg’s remarks

FILE - Members of the Jewish Defense League march in New York on Sunday, May 23, 1982 during a salute to Israel parade. (AP Photo/Elias, File) FILE- In this April 19, 1943 file photo, a group of Jews are escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers. (AP Photo/File) FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, Stacy Biscardi searches the grounds of Mount Carmel Cemetery for a relatives' grave in Philadelphia. Volunteers helped clean up and restore the Jewish cemetery where vandals damaged hundreds of headstones. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File) FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Army, inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald are seen inside their barracks a few days after U.S. troops liberated the concentration camp near Weimar, Germany on April 16, 1945. (U.S. Army via AP) FILE - People march in solidarity from Foley Square over the Brooklyn Bridge, concluding their rally against anti-Semitism at Cadman Plaza, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File) FILE - A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, 1943. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Washington police investigator George Klein Jr. examines bullet strikes in one of the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) FILE - A man looks at the damage to a Jewish shop in Berlin on Nov. 10, 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, an organized nationwide attack carried out by Nazi paramilitary forces and German civilians over two days. The rampage, during which the perpetrators set fire to hundreds of synagogues, looted thousands of Jewish businesses and attacked Jews throughout Germany, is often considered the beginning of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Orthodox Jewish men pass New York City police guarding a Brooklyn synagogue on Dec. 11, 2019 prior to a funeral for Mosche Deutsch, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn who was killed in a shooting at a Jersey City, N.J. market. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2019, a group of security experts recommended that Jewish congregations opting to deploy armed security personnel in the wake of deadly attacks on synagogues should — if possible -- use uniformed law enforcement officers rather than private guards or volunteers from the community. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) FILE - A sign reading "Jews not wanted in this place" in Schwedt, Germany on Aug. 16, 1935, is among many similar ones posted throughout the country. (AP Photo/File) FILE - People hold candles as they gather for a vigil in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Greg Schneider, executive vice president the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference, says the key to combatting antisemitism is education about the Holocaust. And he hopes the Whoopi Goldberg controversy also reminds people that Jews have been -- and continue to be -- discriminated in America. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FILE - A busload of arrested Jewish men are questioned by government officials before being taken away in Berlin on April 11, 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler's takeover of power in Germany. The notion of being Jewish is complicated and includes a combination of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, culture and history, says Greg Schneider, executive vice president the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference. (AP Photo/File)