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Wiesenthal Centre to UNESCO re World Heritage Committee Document: “Cave of Patriarchs is not...
“UNESCO cannot be a platform for distortion and hatred.”
Paris
In a letter to UNESCO Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, expressed dire concern at “the forthcoming World Heritage Committee...
‘Anne Frank: The Collected Works’ to be published in US
“Anne Frank: The Collected Works,” which consists of three versions of her famous diary and several letters she wrote to her paternal grandmother before the 15-year-old perished in the Holocaust, will be published in...
Ukrainian city plans to build residences atop mass Jewish grave
A mass grave of Jews murdered in the Holocaust has been sold by a Ukrainian city to a residential building developer who is planning to establish real estate projects on the site.
Some 5,000 Jews...
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Rabbi Yehuda Halevi
Rabbi Yehuda ben Shemuel Halevi nasyo en Toledo en 1085. Poko tiempo antes ke nasyo Espanya fue konkistada por el Reynado de Castilla i paso de la Kultura Araba Islamika al poder i a...
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,...
Film to be made about Nuremberg Trials 99-year-old prosecutor Ben Ferencz
A film about the head prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials following World War II will be made.
Producers Barry Avrich and Patrice Theroux have acquired the film and television rights to the life story of...
Memorial for concentration camp and ghetto resistance fighters unveiled in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling ceremony for a new memorial dedicated to the heroes of the resistance movement in concentration camps and ghettos during World War II. The memorial is housed in...
History in the making as part of Torah-letter writing effort atop Masada
For the first time ever, the public can be part of a unique piece of history as Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) offers “Be Inscribed” campaign, an opportunity to buy letters, sentences, portions or an entire...
Episode in new Netflix series mocks diarist Anne Frank
The new Netflix series “Historical Roasts,” which mocks the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank, finds itself in the midst of a backlash.
One particular episode features actress Rachel Feinstein as Frank, Gilbert Gottfried as Adolf...
Krakow street to be named after rabbi and 300 orphans murdered in the Holocaust
The city council in Krakow, Poland, has announced that a municipal street will be named next month after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, a caretaker of the Krakow ghetto orphanage.
During the liquidation of the orphanage...