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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...
Close up from Spinoza's statue in The Hague. Statue erected in 1880.

Baruch Spinoza: The Universal Anti-Hero

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In his Theological-Political Treatise, published in 1670 and banned in 1674, Spinoza wrote: “In a free country every man is allowed to think in his own way and to say all that he thinks.” It...
The Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War Two in Latrun, Israel. Photo: Harel Gilboa.

All roads lead to Israel

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Zvi Kan-Tor, a retired Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is a sabra superman who grew up with a uniquely Israeli perspective on the Shoah and World War Two. Now the director of the Chaim Herzog...
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Study Helps Archaeologists Decipher How Ancient Bricks Burned

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Research from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and three other Israeli universities will enable archaeologists to identify burnt materials discovered in excavations and estimate their firing temperatures. The new technique can determine whether a certain...
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Israeli soldiers find Hebrew Book of Psalms in Gaza home

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IDF soldiers have found a Book of Psalms with a personal dedication to an Israeli man from nearly four decades ago in the home of a Palestinian terrorist in the Gaza Strip. The book, which...