Film documents massacre of Jews in Lithuanian shtetl
Molètai is a small town in Lithuania with a dark past.
On Aug. 29, 1941, Molètai residents, in partnership with Nazi officers, massacred the Jewish townspeople. These victims had been rounded up a few days...
Israel to Reveal Evidence of Discrimination Against Jewish-Moroccan Immigrants
Israel will reveal archived documents pertaining to the discrimination practised by Israeli state against Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s.
The silent suffering of Moroccan Jewish immigrants in 1950s Israel will soon...
Make the Iraqi Jewish Archive a gateway between Arabs and Jews
I launched what is now an internationally acclaimed documentary last year, titled “Remember Baghdad,” which chronicles the history of the Jews of Iraq until the community’s destruction in recent decades. It’s already been seen...
Israel cancer research fund finds its man
In January, the New York-based Israel Cancer Research Fund appointed a new national executive director: Dr. Mark Israel. A renowned pediatric oncologist and leading national figure in cancer research, he previously served as the...
Professor David S. Wyman Z”L, 89, scholar and mensch
Almost every time David S. Wyman delivered a lecture related to his remarkable book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, someone in the audience would ask: Why would you, a Christian,...
Israel Prize for lifetime achievement to go to veteran politician, bereaved mother
Former Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and inspirational speaker Miriam Peretz, who lost two sons in battle, were named this week as this year’s recipients of the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement.
The Israel Prize...
Ukrainian Government officially supported Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
On 16th March 2018, the Memorandum of Cooperation to establish the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in the territory of Kyiv was solemnly signed in Kyiv between: the Ministry of Culture represented by Yevhen...
Sientistas djudiós: Abraham Zacuto
Abraham Zacuto, en ebreo Avraham Zacut i en portugés Abraao Ben Samuel Zacuto, astronom, astrolog, matematisién i istoriador djudió, ke sirvió komo Astronom Real en el siglo XV al rey Joao II de Portugal.
El...
Tel Aviv photographer in the running for Sony awards
Israeli photographer Ariel Tagar is listed on an 87-person short list in the Sony World Photography Awards competition for a series he shot in Uganda.
Of more than 320,000 photos submitted from some 200 countries,...
Women during the Holocaust
The Nazi regime targeted all Jews, both men and women, for persecution and eventually death. The regime frequently subjected women, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the...