World war ii
Atomic scientists set 'Doomsday Clock' closer to midnight than ever
This was the third time in the past four years that the scientists moved the clock closer to midnight.
'Never Again': European Jews must be recognized as a protected minority - opinion
On This Day in 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is liberated by Soviet Army
The BBC haunted by bias - and the Israeli connection
How post-war world order is collapsing under the weight of new US ambitions - opinion
The post-WWII world order is crumbling as the US, Russia, and China challenge global rules and institutions.
Putin establishes Soviet genocide memorial day, erasing Jewish victims of Nazis
The bill - and subsequent reporting - speaks extensively about the "genocide" of Soviet prisoners, the concentration camps, and the extermination camps, without mentioning Jewish victims.
Holocaust survivor and Ireland's oldest man, Josef Veselsky, dies aged 107
Following the end of the war in 1945, Veselsky became the secretary to a minister in the Czech government, but fled the country in 1948 amidst the communist takeover.
'The Traitors Circle': A spy thriller that asks - would you have defied the Nazis? - review
A spy-thriller true story of the Solf Circle – elite Germans who defied Hitler, rescued Jews, and paid dearly after betrayal – asking the question: what would you have done?
82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest
The remains of Lt. Morton Sher, identified earlier this year, were buried in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 14, what would have been his 105th birthday.
Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group
Jewish director alleges that the current contract between the foundation and the Jewish community board is “abusive,” limiting the influence of local Jews over projects in their own cemetery.
Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review
Ullmann completed this significantly historical work in Ghetto Theresienstadt just before he was sent to his death in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Great Inversion: When Israel became the Diaspora's shield - opinion
It is no longer the Diaspora nurturing and protecting tenuous Israel. Now it is the reverse.
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival features story of Polish Jewish teenager who triggered Kristallnacht
In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.
Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations
Shlomo Shamir’s daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.
