Renewal at an ancient site: Caesarea reaches out to the world
Jerusalem and Caesarea are 85 miles apart—one inland and one on the coast—but both cities bear the unmistakable imprint of Herod, the master builder of ancient times. In Jerusalem, Herod refurbished the Second Temple,...
Israeli archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old church near Jesus’ Mount of Transfiguration
Israeli archaeologists have announced that they have unearthed a 1,300-year-old Byzantine-era church in the Lower Galilee in the village of Kfar Kama near Mount Tabor, which Christians believe is the Mount of Transfiguration where...
House votes to bestow Medal of Honor on last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials.
The measure was introduced by Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), in...
Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds
Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save Jews during World War II and the Holocaust, and is one of...
Teen discovers 1,500-year-old ‘magic mirror’ at Galilee excavation
A teenage student uncovered a 1,500-year-old “magical mirror” from the Byzantine period this week during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation at the ancient site of Usha in northern Israel.
Aviv Weizman, from Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa, was...
Mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot by Nazis unearthed in Brest, Belarus
mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot in the head by the Nazis during the Holocaust has been uncovered in Belarus.
Currently, 600 skeletons have been unearthed by Belarusian soldiers in a pit at...
Hungary recognizes Orthodox Jewish community for first time since World War II
The Hungarian government signed a special agreement with the Orthodox Jewish Communities Association (EMIH) to officially grant the country’s Orthodox community with “special status” for the first time since World War II.
The title, which...
May 21, 1881: The Jew and the Red Cross
Among the small citizens group that launched the American Red Cross with Clara Barton on this date in 1881 was Adolphus Simeon Solomons, a Sephardic Jewish businessman who hosted many of the group’s meetings...
80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews
Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in the sealed, overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against their Nazi persecutors. Stubbornly clinging to a desire to die with honor, a small group of starving men and women, armed...
August 13, 2008: Hugo Chavez met with the WJC, LAJC, and Venezuelan Jewish leaders...
Venezuela's revolutionary president, Hugo Chavez, met with the head of the World Jewish Congress, the Latin American Jewish Congress, and Venezuelan Jewish leaders in Caracas on this date in 2008.
Also in attendance was Argentina's...