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A professional opinion submitted to the Health Ministry has recommended against using COVID-19 antibody tests to determine whether a person is...
On January 15, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced that legislative and presidential elections will take place in the West...
MANTUA, Italy — Four Italian Holocaust survivors who cheated death during an infamous Gestapo raid on the Rome ghetto have dedicated their final...
US federal prosecutors have charged at least 150 people in connection to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6. The charges range from...
Knesset member Zvi Hauser has been a lawmaker for just 21 months, the strangest 21 months in the history of Israel’s parliament. He’s now running...
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held their first conversation as counterparts Tuesday in a phone call...
AFP — When the face of 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Naomie Lichthaus appeared on their screen, staff at the call center of Israel’s Yad Ezer...
Clashes continued Wednesday between ultra-Orthodox rioters and police forces enforcing lockdown restrictions, and graffiti equating the new police...
Pandemic lockdowns pushed Holocaust memorials to produce innovative, immersive and interactive ways to engage with a distanced audience, from Zoom...
JTA — How well are the world’s most prominent social media companies rooting out Holocaust denial on their platforms? Not at all, the...
New Zealand has a strong history of protecting and promoting human rights at home and internationally, and prides itself on being an outspoken...
A spat broke out Tuesday between the Health Ministry and the Teachers’ Union over the vaccination rate among education workers, with each side...
The coronavirus outbreak caused an acceleration in the digitalization of Israeli life last year as the virus prompted lockdowns that led to an...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by warning that warped ideologies can pave the way to another mass...
More people in and outside Japan are voicing doubts about holding the Tokyo Olympics this summer. In a poll taken by The Asahi Shimbun on Jan. 23...
Napad na ameriški Kapitol, ki se je zgodil 6. januarja, in to v trenutku, ko je kongres ZDA potrjeval rezultate zadnjih predsedniških volitev, bi...
Evropo je preplavilo olajšanje, potem ko je postalo jasno, da bo Donalda Trumpa v Beli hiši zamenjal Joe Biden. Prihod novega ameriškega vodstva...
AUSTIN – In the space of less than three months, events have conspired to transform the American political scene. First, the COVID-19 pandemic...
Thirty-two dead and over 110 wounded people have been added to the list of bombing victims in Iraq. Two suicide bombers were responsible; strapped...
The Israel Museum was only open for short periods over the last year, but it’s still purchasing new art. The Jerusalem institution recently spent...
An archaeology professor has retired from University of Pennsylvania after facing calls that he be fired for using a Nazi salute and greeting during...
It was a dark night, after a difficult journey in an unforgiving weather. They had crossed the ocean from Hamburg escaping Hitler and they had...
The 30,573 lies began with Holocaust denial. Just a week after taking office in January of 2017, on International Holocaust Day, the Trump...
From hutz l’Aretz, it seems Israel should consider returning with today’s borders to the 2 States of 1948 to 1967; Israel and Jordan. First, a...
My father-in-law ate his meals quickly, except once. It was 1945 and the American army liberators had just arrived in Gunskirchen, the extension of...
Turkey is no different than the West when it comes to diversity and representation in the awards circuit. Antalya Film Festival, the oldest film...
The final book published by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before he died in November is the Jewish Book Council’s top book for 2020. “Morality: Restoring...
Coalition infighting continued on Wednesday over a bill that would step up enforcement of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown by hiking fines for...
Whenever a new president comes into office, it always seems to be a priority to undo whatever the previous occupant of the Oval Office did. Given...
Tens of thousands of Polish Holocaust survivors returned or reappeared in Poland after World War II, hoping to resume their lives and reclaim their...
The popular political discourse is generally dominated by so-called horse-races, with the focus squarely on personalities and their chances....
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. Despite having led many groups to Poland,...
The great Jewish-American astronomer, Vera Rubin, passed away on Christmas Day, 2016. The world’s press, oblivious to her real accomplishments and...
On January 20, 2021, all the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court attended Joe Biden’s inauguration as President of the United States at...
George Orwell, the author of “1984”. [Picture from an accreditation for the British Union of Journalists. Public domain.] The individual impulse...
In my most recent blog, I looked forward to returning to our old routines post-vaccination. This Tuesday marked two weeks subsequent to the second...
The Cinqfontaines Monastery: Soon after Nazi Germany occupied Luxembourg, the Cinqfontaines Monastery was converted into an internment and...
As the United Nations this week marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitism remains just as pervasive. True, there are no...
This week in Israel and in other places where Jewish holidays are celebrated, we will celebrate a beautiful holiday called Tu B’Shevat, also known...
JTA — On Jan. 6, a sea of heads bobbed and flags flew outside the US Capitol. A closer look revealed a dark hoodie, skull, crossbones and large...
Amongst several sombre milestones this week, Monday brought the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords. This Bill is a...
I guess all the Trump haters in Congress just can’t get enough of him. This is kind of ironic, since they couldn’t wait to get rid of him when he...
Today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day I offer this personal lesson that I learned from one survivor in particular, my dad, z”l. It is...
Even as the post-Brexit United Kingdom – in its quest to rebrand itself as “Global Britain” and reorient the country’s economy toward the...