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Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews fleeing the Nazis, as recognized by the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act, Jan. 23, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Cardin honors diplomats who helped Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event on Tuesday honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews...
(L-R) Betty Ehrenberg, World JewFrom left are Betty Ehrenberg, World Jewish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, vice chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shaffir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's permanent representative to the U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, president of the American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; and Ronnie Vinikov, head of external affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.ish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, Vice Chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shafir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's Permanent Representative to U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, Chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, President of American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; Ronnie Vinikov, Head of External Affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.

UN hosts photographic exhibit to Shoah survivors

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A collection of photos culled from a worldwide tribute to Holocaust survivors was held at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, three days before the annual observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
Memorial candle. credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is different this year

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As the author of two post-Holocaust novels and a former high school history teacher, my guiding assumption before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was that the Holocaust was a unique event in...
The Nahum family formally deposits the collection with the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2024. Photo by Rachel Neiman/NLI.

Jerusalem library gets 45,000 Jewish manuscripts from Yemen

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The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has received the world’s most extensive collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts. The 60,000 items in the collection include notable pieces such as Judeo-Yemenite renditions of works by Maimonides...
Roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp, c. 1938-1941. Two prisoners in the foreground are seen supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guards to “liquidate” useless inmates. Credit: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.

The focus of my attention on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Growing up in a small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and those of my...
Eighth-grade teacher Logan Greene receives the 2023 Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education, presented by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Jan. 15, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education

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Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
An extremely rare silver coin dated to the Persian period (6th–5th centuries BCE) is unearthed in the Judean Hills, Jan. 17, 2024. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Unearthed: 2,500-year-old silver coin from Kingdom of Judah

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An extremely rare silver coin dated to the Persian period (6th–5th centuries BCE) was recently discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation in the Judean Hills, providing evidence for the earliest known use of coins...

On the 75th Anniversary of Israel’s First Free Elections

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Inherent in the recent outrageous charges that Israel has an apartheid system, or is committing genocide is that somehow Israel is not a true democracy while nothing could be further from the truth. This...
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on balcony of the Chancellery in Berlin on March 16, 1938. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film

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A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror. In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: Courtesy.

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...