Yad Vashem
Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91
Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson, Taft was photographed when she was 6 months old by a German photographer, Hans Ballin.
At the crossroads of Holocaust remembrance
Faith under persecution: Yad Vashem exhibit on keeping the Jewish calendar in the Shoah opens
Happy(ish) New Year: Holocaust remembrance as warning in an age of resurgent antisemitism
Yad Vashem director condemns Ukraine ambassador's use of Holocaust comparison
Dani Dayan, director of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem museum, decried the widespread use of the Holocaust as a political tool.
Why is Yad Vashem silent on claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza? - opinion
One might have expected Yad Vashem to make a powerful rebuttal to claims of genocide in Gaza, but no such statement has been made.
Israel's real strength: Defeating Hamas without surrendering its values - editorial
There is a quiet but powerful moral challenge in this. Dayan is not excusing the devastation in Gaza, nor is he minimizing Israeli trauma.
Yad Vashem: Israel's war in Gaza is not genocide, but we must act morally - exclusive
To equate the IDF, fighting to protect Israeli citizens from a terrorist army that embeds itself within civilian areas, with the Nazis, is not only false, but morally reprehensible.
Grapevine, July 12, 2025: Muslim empathy
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Editor's Notes: Israel's 'friends' have forgotten why we hired them - comment
Diaspora generosity is heroic, but too many of the institutions that collect our money have lost the plot, padding paychecks, upgrading seats, and hoarding cash.
Gaza plan likened to Nazi camps, sparks condemnation and political storm
A political firestorm was triggered on Wednesday by likening Israel’s proposal for the displaced Gazans to Nazi‐era concentration camps.
Faculty are source of US campus antisemitism, Yad Vashem head says
"The presidents of institutions in the United States are not behaving like leaders, and therefore nothing will change," said Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.
Survive, in Order to Create: Exhibiton launched in Ma'ale Adumim art museum
“The Destroyed World” hall presents the destroyed Jewish life. Apart from the killing of millions of people, the Holocaust involved the destruction of of a whole world of Jewish spirit and identity.
Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation
According to Yad Vashem, Cukurs held a “senior, operative position in the Arajs Kommando, the unit that from June 1941 until March 1942 carried out mass killings of Jews and other civilians."
