Moscow Limmud sees record enrolment of 2,500
Attendance this year at the main event organised by Limmud FSU – an international organisation putting together Jewish events in the former Soviet Union — exceeded last year’s tally by 25 percent, organisers said...
Prince Charles recalls grandmother’s rescue of Jews
Charles, Prince of Wales, spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah.
Charles and his wife, Camilla, spent the final day of...
US drops ‘largest non-nuclear bomb’ for first time in Afghanistan area populated by Isis...
The US has dropped the "mother of all bombs" - the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military - on an area of eastern Afghanistan known to be populated by...
A Concert at Masada for the Shrinking Dead Sea
If you’re familiar with the name Jean-Michel Jarre, you’ve likely heard the French musician’s innovative electro-acoustic compositions, such as his 1976 breakout album Oxygène. Turns out that Jarre–the son of renowned film composer Maurice...
Erdoğan sends Passover greetings to Turkey’s Jews
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has released a congratulatory message to Turkey’s Jewish community and Jews all over the world who are marking the Passover religious festival this week.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Erdoğan...
Israel condemns Le Pen’s disclaimer of France’s role in the Holocaust
The Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned a statement by far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who said that France was not responsible for deporting its Jews during the Holocaust.
“This declaration is contrary to...
Spicer: Hitler ‘didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,’ although he sent Jews to...
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In criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that even Adolf Hitler did not sink to that level of warfare, despite Hitler's use of...
Is Evidence from a War-Crimes Tribunal Art?
Henryk Ross testified at the Eichmann trial. His qualification for that dubious honor was to have been one of the few thousand souls to survive the Lodz ghetto, where more than 200,000 Polish Jews...
UN security council vote on Israeli settlements postponed ‘potentially indefinitely’
Succumbing to pressure from Israel, Egyptian president asks to postpone vote on resolution draft that would demand Israel 'immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.'
Egypt postponed...
Guatemala to Welcome First Central American Holocaust Museum
A colonial-era house in Guatemala City, Guatemala will be the site of the Museo del Holocausto, the first Holocaust museum in Central America. It is set to open before the end of the year according...