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Daughter of Hitler’s War Minister to Be Honored with German-Jewish Award

Daughter of Hitler’s War Minister to Be Honored with German-Jewish Award

Hilde Schramm, who lives in Berlin, was a former Green Party politician in the city. In 1994, she founded the Zurückgeben Foundation, whose name can… Read More ›

In Jerusalem’s Old City, conflict means buyer and seller beware

In Jerusalem’s Old City, conflict means buyer and seller beware

Selling property to Jews in East Jerusalem is a lucrative but dangerous game when many Palestinians consider such deals treason   In an alley in… Read More ›

EU Parliament Calls to Recover Art Looted by Nazis in Holocaust & WWII

EU Parliament Calls to Recover Art Looted by Nazis in Holocaust & WWII

Resolution calls for comprehensive database for Jewish-owned artworks seized by the Nazis.   The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday calling on the European… Read More ›

Miami – Hitler Mug Found In Home Of Man Florida Cops Say Targeted Jews

Miami – Hitler Mug Found In Home Of Man Florida Cops Say Targeted Jews

Miami – A large knife emblazoned with a Nazi emblem. A giant flag with the logo of the dreaded SS stormtroopers. A mug featuring Hitler… Read More ›

Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea

Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea

Some think the key to unlocking academic success can be found in Jewish approaches to education, leading to the establishment of dozens of chavruta-themed institutions… Read More ›

Washington – One House Rep Voted Against A Federal Anti-Semitism Monitor, A Libertarian Palestinian American

Washington – One House Rep Voted Against A Federal Anti-Semitism Monitor, A Libertarian Palestinian American

  Washington – Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who is trying to push through a bill that would enhance the role of the anti-Semitism… Read More ›

Paris – Anti-Semitism Among Yellow Vest Protesters Demoralizes France’s Jews

Paris – Anti-Semitism Among Yellow Vest Protesters Demoralizes France’s Jews

  Paris – Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to… Read More ›

IDF officer, 4 soldiers arrested for allegedly beating Palestinian suspects

IDF officer, 4 soldiers arrested for allegedly beating Palestinian suspects

Servicemen from religious Netzah Yehuda battalion suspected of attacking detainees as revenge for terror attack in which two comrades were killed   Military Police on… Read More ›

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Even as demand for literature is on the rise, online bookstores make it nearly impossible to sustain a fixed literary space for secular ‘Jewish’ works… Read More ›

Israel’s left wing must have the courage to tackle the big issue

Israel’s left wing must have the courage to tackle the big issue

Opinion: The left must clearly state, without obfuscating in the name of political correctness, what it believes is the long-hungered solution for good relations between… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Man Permitted To Marry Second Wife After First Wife Absconds With Child

Tel Aviv – Man Permitted To Marry Second Wife After First Wife Absconds With Child

  Tel Aviv – The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court gave permission to a man to marry a second wife after his first wife absconded with… Read More ›

Meet the 27-year-old female rabbi leading a NY Jewish federation

Meet the 27-year-old female rabbi leading a NY Jewish federation

In an age when Millennials cherry-pick their charitable causes online, Rachel Rubenstein says donating to a local federation is counter-cultural — and constituents are responding… Read More ›

The Holocaust survivor who dresses up like Hitler

The Holocaust survivor who dresses up like Hitler

Artist Dov Or-Ner is an unusual figure in the Israeli art scene; after years of living with the fuhrer’s menacing voice in his head, he… Read More ›

Polish Jewish children’s rights pioneer honored 70 years after his murder

Polish Jewish children’s rights pioneer honored 70 years after his murder

Author, pediatrician and activist Janusz Korczak accompanied 190 orphans to Treblinka rather than escape with his life; now his work is being immortalized for sold-out… Read More ›

How Hitler’s ‘fake news’ assault on America came perilously close to succeeding

How Hitler’s ‘fake news’ assault on America came perilously close to succeeding

In ‘Hitler’s American Friends,’ historian Bradley W. Hart reveals the extent to which US citizens aided, abetted, and otherwise supported Nazi Germany   Not only… Read More ›

Court Nixes Jewish Teen’s Confession in Arson of Dormition Abbey

Court Nixes Jewish Teen’s Confession in Arson of Dormition Abbey

The Lod District Court nixed the confession earlier Tuesday of the Jewish minor accused of involvement in the arson the Dormition Abbey in February 2016.… Read More ›

69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO

69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO

UN cultural agency’s efforts to convince Washington and Jerusalem fail; ‘we aren’t going to be a member of an organization that deliberately acts against us,’… Read More ›

Israel’s underground world of conversion therapy

Israel’s underground world of conversion therapy

While the vast majority of professionals warn such threatment for young members of the LGBT community is dangerous, many religious therapists offer such services, ‘with… Read More ›

Head of firm that insured Auschwitz workshops stripped of posthumous honor

Head of firm that insured Auschwitz workshops stripped of posthumous honor

After discovery that Victoria Insurance foreclosed on Jewish homes and covered slave labor factories, German university rededicates institute and prize named after Kurt Hamann  … Read More ›

Erdogan: ‘Jews in Israel beat Palestinian women and children’

Erdogan: ‘Jews in Israel beat Palestinian women and children’

The Turkish president, who has long been a harsh critic of Israel, threatens to teach the ‘Jews in Israel’ a lesson; PM Netanyahu: ‘Erdogan, whose… Read More ›