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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

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Pedestrians walk past a wrapped statue next to the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also known as Latin Cathedral in Lviv western Ukraine, on March 5, 2022. (Daniel LEAL / AFP)
March 7, 2022, 10:14 am
Under fire, Ukraine’s Lviv scrambles to protect its historic statues
Volunteers and city employees are working to wrap monuments and protect stained-glass windows in the city, whose center is on the UNESCO World Heritage List
By Thibaut MARCHAND
Lionel Groulx speaking before a large crowd, May 24, 1919. (Public domain)
July 1, 2020, 3:32 am
Muslim Montrealer leads charge to rename metro station that honors anti-Semite
Online petition has over 18,600 signatures in favor of replacing Lionel Groulx, a Catholic priest who supported fascism and hated Jews, with Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson
By Julie Masis
Anton Drobovych, appointed to head the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in December 2019. (Courtesy Institute of National Memory)
June 23, 2020, 4:03 am
Ukraine’s new memory czar tones down glorification of war criminals
Institute for National Memory chief Anton Drobovych rejects idealization of Nazi collaborators, but stops short of repudiating Ukraine’s far-right 20th century nationalists
By Sam Sokol
The spire of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral collapses as the church is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP)
April 15, 2019, 9:54 pm
Firefighters fear burning Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris can’t be saved
Catastrophic blaze destroys roof and spire of iconic medieval church; Macron: ‘A part of us is burning’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
New York City's historical Canyon of Heroes will keep the plaque honoring Vichy chief of state Henri Philippe Petain, who rounded up 10,000 Jews and turned them over to Hitler. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2018, 3:52 pm
NYC monument honoring Nazi collaborator to remain in place
Plaque dedicated to Henri Philippe Petain, who handed 10,000 Jews over to Hitler, will continue to be a part of lower Broadway’s ‘Canyon of Heroes’
By Danielle Ziri
Tsar Nicholas II circa 1890; a monument to the Tsar in Vyritsa, Russia. (Photo of monument CC-SA/KulikovaTV)
November 29, 2017, 2:18 pm
In the former Soviet Union, statues and hero worship for leaders of pogroms
To the dismay of many of their victims, Russians revive nostalgic cult for the deposed tsar and other anti-Semitic old-guard nationalists
By Julie Masis
Erica Brown
October 6, 2017, 10:06 am
Erica Brown
A monumental problem
How to redirect the evil inclination for idol worship that still dances among us
A statue depicting Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor, placed illegally near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 1, 2017, 8:59 pm
When Israelis protest, they don’t tear down statues; they put them up
Israel has few official statues of its leaders, but artists and activists, subverting rather than celebrating their subjects, are starting to make up for that
By Andrew Tobin
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