Obama nominates Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, to Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated to the Supreme Court a Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, who is currently the chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Garland, 63, a Chicago native, has...
World Jewish Congress calls Poland’s new Holocaust law ‘historical obfuscation’ and an ‘attack on...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalize suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and...
Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz Survivor Imre Kertesz Dies At 86
Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, winner of the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long illness, the state news agency MTI reported, citing his...
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...
‘If I Could Say Liberal Jews I Would’
Ted Cruz—a “defender of Israel” who once said “If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you”—came under fire last week when he called out Donald...
Egyptian Curriculum Details 1979 Treaty With Israel for the First Time
For the first time, a new Egyptian textbook describes the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, according to a report from Israel’s Army Radio. Details about the treaty, which includes a section about...
Pope Francis to join Google’s Eric Schmidt in rare tech industry meeting
Pope Francis once described the internet as a “gift from God”. But on Friday he is due to meet with someone who may believe the internet has more to do with his own company...
Jewish transports’ anniversary commemorated in Czech town
Some 80 people, including survivors, today paid tribute to the Holocaust victims and commemorated the 75th anniversary of the departure of Trebic Jewish transports for Terezin, north Bohemia, in May 1942.
Two wartime Jewish transports...
Iraqi Jews are speaking up for the protection of their heritage
Jewish history in Iraq has been documented as far back as 2,500 years to Babylonian Times and few know that Iraqi Jews played a role in the Independence movement of Iraq in the last...
YouTube censors MEMRI for ‘harmful or dangerous content’
A MEMRI TV clip posted on April 24 on the MEMRI TV YouTube channel translated and exposed anti-Semitic statements by Gaza religious scholar Khaled Hany Morshid.
The MEMRI TV clip shows Morshid at the Gaza “Return...