Daily Archives: January 22, 2020
Israel irked by Macron-Abbas meeting ahead of Holocaust forum
Israeli officials on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the decision by French President Emmanuel Macron, who is on a three-day visit to the country for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, to meet with Palestinian Authority leader...
Gantz swerves to the right in voicing support for Jordan Valley annexation
Blue and White Party chair Benny Gantz announced on Tuesday that his party will work to annex the Jordan Valley after the March general elections, a potential significant move geared to wooing right-wing voters.
“We...
New photos show convicted guard John Demjanjuk at Nazi death camp
New pictures show convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk at Sobibor, where he denied ever being a guard there—reportedly the first time that he has been identified in photos at the death camp.
The images...
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada...
Q&A: A Yiddish-speaking gumshoe with a tapping toe
Gale Kissin, 67, wears several hats. She not only sings and plays guitar and percussion in Mama Loshn, the Yiddish revival band she co-founded, but she’s spent decades working with attorneys as a private investigator. Though...
A l’approche du Forum mondial sur l’Holocauste à Jérusalem, un haut responsable du Fatah...
Le cinquième Forum mondial sur l’Holocauste, intitulé « Se souvenir de l’Holocauste : Combattre l’antisémitisme », qui marque le 75e anniversaire de la libération d’Auschwitz et la Journée internationale de commémoration de l’Holocauste, s’ouvre...