National Archives

How Gabbard's 'hunters' pounced on secret CIA warehouse for Kennedy files

DNI officials caught the CIA off guard to seize assassination files on JFK, RFK, and MLK. The trove was transferred to the National Archives for release.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard sits next to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel, on the day they testify at the House Intelligence Committee hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 26, 2025.
 Professor Hanoch Gutfruend is a physics professor, former Hebrew University president, and Academic Head of the Einstein Archive. He showed The Jerusalem Post around the archives to mark 100 years of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hebrew University's centennial: Einstein's legacy and the guardian of a scientific icon

 Historical re-enactors pose for a photo at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2024.

A Holocaust exhibit — and Jewish staffer — are involved in a controversy over the National Archives

 Ultra-Orthodox kids march during Shavuot celebrations in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, June 9, 2024

Photos take us back to Shavuot celebrations in the Holy Land, 91 years ago


National Library of Israel hosts International Judaica Curators Conference

This past week, 70 professional curators of Judaica collections from many different countries convened at the library for a three-day intensive learning experience led by professionals.

 THE NEW reading room of the National Library of Israel.

Extensive efforts to collect the documentary evidence from the October 7 massacre

The goal is to create a large, authoritative database encompassing the entirety of evidence, documentation, media coverage, and outreach activities, for the benefit of Jewish communal memory.

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Trump kept classified documents after leaving office - National Archives

The National Archives and Record Administration said it had "identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes."

 Former US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, in Conroe, Texas, US, January 29, 2022.

Shelf-help: Librarians are asking how to turn their archives into weapons against antisemitism

CJH, in collaboration with jMUSE, is presenting an all-day conference Sunday

 A YOUNG Polish Jew reads from a book in Yiddish, in the Jewish library at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Krakow.

Hannah Szenes remembered 100 years after her birth

The National Library uploads the archive of her personal items.

Chana Senesh's pocket notebook

Israeli archives censorship regulations and oral history

The organizational culture of government ministries and security bodies that were involved in crafting Israel’s foreign policy was lacking for many years.

DR. GEORG HERLITZ at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, 1947.

Israel's State Archives demand all state-related documents be handed in

Ruti Abramovitch, the state archivist, threatened other archives in a letter, writing that 'any archives holding a document defined as classified may be subject to severe penalties'

Yaacov Lozowick, then director of the Israel State Archive, poses for a picture at the national archive in Jerusalem April 19, 2016

The Central Zionist Archives and the Theodore Herzl Archive: A journey

On February 1, 1933, the day after the Nazis seized power, Herlitz directed a request to the executive branch of the Zionist organization to move the archives to Palestine.

DR. GEORG HERLITZ at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, 1947.

The National Archives got Ford to sponsor an Auschwitz exhibit

Henry Ford’s role in the Nazi machine was not mentioned.

An exhibit at the National Archives marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in a photo taken Feb. 5, 2020