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New York state representative Zohran Mamdani at the “Resist Fascism Rally” in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on Oct 27, 2024. Credit: Bingjiefu He via Wikimedia Commons.

US Holocaust Museum accuses Mamdani of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum lashed out at Zohran Mamdani, an anti-Israel New York state representative who is running for mayor of New York City, stating that “exploiting the museum and the Warsaw Ghetto...
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus being stripped of rank in the French military (“Le traître : Dégradation d’Alfred Dreyfus”), on Jan. 13, 1895. Credit: Henri Meyer, National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

French Parliament moves to promote Alfred Dreyfus

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The lower house of France’s Parliament on Monday voted to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents in the country in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. All 197 lawmakers...
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, June 12, 2012. Photo by Scott-Hendryk Dillan via Wikimedia Commons.

German dignitaries pay last respects to Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one of several high-profile political figures present at the funeral of 103-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer at the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in Berlin on Thursday. Newly installed German Chancellor...
San Remo, Italian Riviera, 1920: Lloyd George, Francesco Saverio Nitti and others standing. Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images.

San Remo at 105: The conference that helped pave the way for modern Israel

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From April 19 to April 26, 1920, world powers gathered in San Remo on Italy’s Riviera to determine the fate of former Ottoman territories following World War I. The San Remo Conference, attended by...

A rare stone capital decorated with a menorah design, the Temple candelabrum, over 1500...

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A one-of-a-kind stone capital, a type never found anywhere in the world, decorated with an eight-branched lamp over 1,500 years old, will be revealed to the public for the first time at the Jay...
Image of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland by the 100th Lviv Infantry Division, 60th Army, I Ukrainian Front, under the command of Maj. Gen. Fyodor Krasavin, on Jan. 27, 1945. Credit: Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovitsj/Public Domain in Russia via Wikimedia Commons.

Bearing witness: Death-camp liberators and Holocaust survivors

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World War II will be remembered in infamy for countless reasons, the most horrific being the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews during the years of the Holocaust. As many around the world observe...
Leaders of the New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research opening crates of salvaged materials. Credit: Courtesy of YIVO.

At 100, YIVO aims to be more global

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As YIVO Institute for Jewish Research archivists pored over 200,000 pages of materials from the literary estate of acclaimed Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, which the nonprofit acquired in 2010 after Grade’s widow died, they...
A historic sign at the railway spur in Sobibor. Credit: Jacques Lahitte via Wikimedia Commons.

Last Sobibor survivor reveals buried Nazi atrocities

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The complete and extraordinary story of police officer Yaakov Biskowitz was never fully revealed until now. As a young boy, Biskowitz became one of the few people who survived for an extended period in a...
Film director and comedian Mel Brooks at the 20th Century Fox lot on Oct. 23, 2014 in Century City, Calif. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock

For Mel Brooks, world history (no joke!) repeats itself

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Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II” on the eve of Purim, which began on March 6. Brooks (he’ll...
The Haganah Haggadah, published for Passover 1948. Credit: Brand Auction House.

Rare Haggadot up for auction in Bnei Brak

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A remarkable Haggadah created by Jewish Brigade fighters for Passover, weeks before Israel's Declaration of Independence, recently come to light and will be auctioned today at the Brand auction house in Bnei Brak, alongside several other historically significant Haggadot. The...