Posts Tagged: holocaust
At Yad Vashem, UN Chief Vows to Fight Antisemitism ‘in All Its Expressions’
Amid his first visit to Israel since taking office at the start of this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stopped on Monday at the Yad...
Boston Holocaust Memorial Vandalized for Second Time This Summer
JNS.org – The Boston-based New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized on Monday for the second time this summer. A 17-year-old male reportedly threw a rock at one...
Trump’s Jewish Son-in-Law and Senior Aide Kushner Recalls Gifts Received From Putin-Allied Russian Banker Connected to Family’s Eastern European Background
During a meeting with a Kremlin-linked banker last year, Jared Kushner -- President Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior adviser -- received a pair of...
British Royal Couple Visits Site of Former Concentration Camp in Poland, Meets With Holocaust Survivors
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, visited the site of a former concentration camp in Poland on Tuesday and met with a group...
Yes, Trump Should Have Visited Warsaw’s Holocaust Memorial, but He Remains a Great Friend of Israel
WARSAW, POLAND — For the past 10 days, my family and I have visited the horrible killing fields of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Lodz ghetto, Tykocin and...
Polish, Croatian Teachers Selected as Fellows in Holocaust Education Program
Four teachers from Poland and Croatia were among the participants in a selective Holocaust education fellowship that took place late last month at New York's Columbia...
It’s Time to Talk About Yves Engler
Yves Engler is an author and former student activist whose writing frequently appears on Rabble, The Huffington Post and Counterpunch. A darling of the far-left, Engler...
Nikki Haley at Yad Vashem: We Must Always Choose a Side
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley visited Yad Vashem on Friday, during the third and final day of her Israel visit. Haley toured the vast...
‘Never Again’ — Forgotten Within 22 Years
Like other teenagers during May-June 1967, I was bopping to the hits of the time. While The Tremeloes sang “Silence is Golden,” with Sandie Shaw’s...
Rare Collection of Nazi Propaganda Posters to Be Restored, Displayed at St. Olaf College
A rare collection of Nazi propaganda posters that was forgotten for decades will now be restored, housed for research and displayed at Minnesota's St. Olaf College, the Star Tribune...
To Honor Elie Wiesel’s First Yahrzeit, Israel Should Bomb Syria’s Crematoria
This month, on the 26th of Sivan, we will mark the first yahrzeit of Elie Wiesel. Almost no one in my life has touched and inspired...
Top Jewish Human Rights Group Slams Russian FM’s Spokesperson Over Reported Holocaust Reference
A reference made by a Russian official to the Holocaust on Thursday has been condemned by a leading US-based Jewish human rights group. In response to...
Survivor of Six Nazi Death Camps Tells His Story
At the age of 14, Moshe Avital stood before Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Mengele sent Avital’s father to the left, which meant death, and...
FBI Director James Comey at ADL Summit: Holocaust Showed Humanity’s ‘True Capacity for Evil and Moral Surrender’
It is vital that power be “overseen and constrained,” the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told the Anti-Defamation League on Monday at...
