Auschwitz artifacts to go on exhibit in New York City
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not...
Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims
At the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and in coordination with forensic experts from the Israeli emergency organization ZAKA, an Israeli recovery team will dive to the bottom of Hungary’s Danube river to...
Why is Egypt intent on restoring Jewish heritage sites in a country devoid of...
The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to restore Jewish heritage sites throughout the country. Soon afterwards, the government backtracked, probably due to a public backlash.
“The Egyptian ministry...
Canary in the mine: Yad Vashem’s Holocaust-awareness programs tackle 21st-century anti-Semitism
It’s American teachers like Lori Fulton who, with their commitment to Holocaust education, are poised to be potent forces for holding back the current tidal wave of anti-Semitism for the next generation.
Many of the...
New Jewish Documentation Center, Containing 100 Years of Jewish Life in Mexico City, Opens...
A catastrophic 1985 earthquake that killed thousands of people in Mexico City and destroyed the (back-then) Jewish neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa also left the archives of the Ashkenazi community in a state of...
Study: A quarter of Jews murdered in Holocaust killed in 100 days in 1942,...
Almost a quarter of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were murdered during 100 days in 1942, making it the time frame with the highest killing pace in the 20th century, according to a new...
Who knew? Hebrew could be the basis for many English and European words
English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished dictionaries, articles and books.
According to the English Oxford...
Georges Loinger, who saved 350-plus Jewish children during the Shoah, dies at 108
Georges Loinger, a Jewish man with Aryan features who managed to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, died on Friday at the age of 108.
Loinger became a member of the French Resistance...
2,000-year-old ring found in ancient Jerusalem ritual bath
A 2,000-year-old ring with a solitaire gem stone was uncovered in archaeological excavations in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem.
The ring was found by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in what appears to...
On display in Jerusalem: Near East artifacts rescued from antiquity robbers
A collection of artifacts that were stolen but later rescued will be on display at the end of the month at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem.
The museum will open a new exhibit on Dec....