Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania
Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets.
According...
Belarus Torah reborn in Colonie
Editor's note: In the mid-1980s, Belarus was part of the Soviet Union sharing the mother country's long history of anti-Semitism which included medieval massacres and pogroms. The Encyclopaedia Judaica describes a militia attacking a...
Archaeologists find fabled Crusader moat outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls
Archaeologists have discovered an 11th-century moat just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls—the first hard evidence of a fabled Crusader siege against the city 920 years ago. Attested to in several historical documents, many scholars...
Bipartisan group organizes private tour of Holocaust museum for US Congress
A bipartisan group has organized a private, after-hours tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for members of Congress on July 16.
Jewish Insider first reported the upcoming tour.
An invitation was released on Thursday...
The truth about Jerusalem’s City of David and the lies about Silwan
A photo of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt on July 1 striking a thin, symbolic wall with a sledgehammer—a wall built to separate two parts of the...
Archaeologists announce discovery of the biblical city of Ziklag
The Israeli Antiquities Authority, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia, have announced the discovery of what they believe is the biblical city of Ziklag, the Philistine city in which according...
Archive smuggled from Nazi-era Germany acquired by Science History Institute
The Science History Institute has acquired an amazing collection of correspondence, books, photographs and scientific notes belonging to Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig, announced the Philadelphia museum on Tuesday.
The collection spans decades, from the...
Negotiations with Germany result in increased welfare for Holocaust survivors, payment for surviving spouse
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference) announced on Monday the results of the organization’s negotiations this year with the German government on behalf of Jewish Holocaust...
Auschwitz exhibit examines faith as a mechanism for survival during the Holocaust
An exhibition that offers the public a glimpse into the role of faith as a mechanism for survival during the Holocaust opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland on Monday.
“Through the Lens of...
Croatia ignores charges by Jewish leaders of rewriting history of Holocaust
Rabbi Kotel Dadon, leader of Bet Israel Jewish community of Croatia, has alarm regarding the decision of the city assembly of Zagreb to dedicate a memorial to 6 million victims of the Holocaust without...