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‘Uncomfortable history’ at Nazi bunker-turned-hotel in Hamburg
Where four anti-aircraft guns used to be on the roof of a tower, hotel guests now find a restaurant, bar, café, shop and hotel foyer.
The Reverb hotel at the Hamburg Bunker is constructed on...
Lammy urges end to war on Hamas, decries ‘intolerable’ suffering in Gaza
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during meetings with Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Sunday and Monday pressed the need for a hostage deal with the Hamas terrorist group to bring an end to the...
YIVO exhibit of Holocaust diary shows how teen retained ‘understanding of himself as a...
People who explored an online YIVO Institute for Jewish Research exhibit about the diary of Beba Epstein, a 13-year-old girl who survived the Holocaust after hiding in Vilna, told YIVO that prior to that...
Offensive anti-Israel protests at Holocaust memorials
It is with profound concern that I address the recent plans for an anti-Israel protest in front of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
This deeply disturbing and offensive protest desecrates the memory...
Léon Lewkowicz, Holocaust survivor, will carry the Olympic flame in Paris on Monday July...
On Monday July 15, at 1:30 p.m., the eve of the Vél d'Hiv Roundup commemorations, Léon Lewkowicz, 94, survivor of the Shoah, will carry the Olympic flame to Paris.
Deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau at age 15,...
Living with purpose: Lessons from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Imagine there was something you could buy that would dramatically improve every aspect of your life. Everything you wish for—from financial success and physical health to happiness and self-esteem—would be granted or greatly enhanced....
G7 leaders denounce Israeli ‘expansion of settlements’
The G7 released a statement on Thursday criticizing Israeli expansion in Judea and Samaria.
“The government of Israel’s settlement program is inconsistent with international law and counterproductive to the cause of peace,” stated the foreign ministers of Canada, France,...
NJ man, who allegedly encouraged anti-Jewish violence, arrested for targeting energy facility
Law enforcement authorities arrested an 18-year-old man from East Brunswick, N.J., on Wednesday for “allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities,” the U.S. Justice Department said.
“Andrew Takhistov was allegedly on his way to Ukraine...
Lipstadt to travel to South America for antisemitism forum, AMIA memorial
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, is scheduled to visit Argentina and Brazil from July 15-23, according to the U.S. State Department.
In Argentina, she is slated to appear at a...
University of Florida dean suspends anti-Israel protesters for years
Chris Summerlin, dean of students at the University of Florida in Gainesville, chose not to offer slap-on-the-wrist penalties to pro-Hamas protesters arrested on campus on April 29.
Instead, Summerlin applied multiple-year suspensions of some students, the most...