British royal family members attend multiple Holocaust-remembrance ceremonies
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a commemorative ceremony on Monday held in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the city of Westminster, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported.
Prince William will give a reading,...
Pew study: Most Americans know dates of Holocaust, but not number of Jews killed
Less than half of Americans, some 45 percent, know that 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust, while 29 percent weren’t sure or had no answer, according to a Pew Research Center study released on...
Boise Jewish community celebrates 125th anniversary of Idaho’s first synagogue
Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a proclamation on Monday recognizing 125 years of Jewish history in the state.
“I, Brad Little, governor of the state of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the year of 2020 on January 20th...
Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time
“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night”
Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...
Museum honors Holocaust survivor Ruth Harber
Ruth Harber of Valley Center and Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, share a similar life as young teenagers: both spent two years in hiding from the Nazis...
Michigan’s Holocaust museum exhibit reveals secret history behind capture of Adolf Eichmann
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., has announced its newest special exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” which runs Jan. 26 through mid-June. It reveals the secret...
December 27, 2010: Jonathan Pollak, anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands,...
Jonathan Pollak, an anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 1,500 shekels on this date in 2010 for his 2008 arrest at a...
Judezmo in “Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present”
The interaction in medieval Iberia of Jews, Christians, and, from 711, Muslims, led to the rise of Jewish varieties of medieval Ibero-Romance. Since the largest group of Sephardim, or medieval Iberian Jews, was concentrated...
Israel-Diaspora relations then and now: Exhibit highlights work of late photographer Leonard Freed
Yet another U.N. agency has stepped into the minefield that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and as a result, appears in danger of losing its legitimacy.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, announced last...
Russia: New downloadable tourist guide to Jewish Kaliningrad
If you get to Kaliningrad, Russia — formerly Königsberg, East Prussia — you can now follow a Jewish heritage itinerary in the city.
Just a year ago, exactly 80 years after the grandiose New Synagogue...