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Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge visited Ottawa on Parliament Hill during Canada Day festivities, July 1, 2011. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

British royal family members attend multiple Holocaust-remembrance ceremonies

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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,...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pew study: Most Americans know dates of Holocaust, but not number of Jews killed

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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...
Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel in Boise, Idaho, Jan. 2, 2010. Credit: Kenneth Freeman via Wikimedia Commons.

Boise Jewish community celebrates 125th anniversary of Idaho’s first synagogue

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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...
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time

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“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...
Ruth Harber (second from left) and family at liberation. (Family photo)

Museum honors Holocaust survivor Ruth Harber

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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...
Falsified Israeli passport, part of “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” January to June 2020. Credit: The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Michigan’s Holocaust museum exhibit reveals secret history behind capture of Adolf Eichmann

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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,...

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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”

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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

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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

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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...