NBC Removes Story On Biden Official’s Ties To $500,000 In AIPAC Donations
WASHINGTON (JTA) — NBC has removed a report about hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, by a top Biden security official’s family foun...
52 Years Ago, 9 Jews Were Hanged In Baghdad. Today, Their Descendants Risk Losing Everything They Left Behind.
BAGHDAD (JTA) - On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.
It was the climax of a campaign of persecut...
Times Square’s New ‘Margaritaville Resort’ To Include A First-Floor Synagogue
NEW YORK(JTA) - A splashy new outpost of singer Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Resort empire coming to New York’s Times Square will include a synagogue.
The historic Garment Cen...
This Dutch Village Is Finally Ready To Tell Its Unique Holocaust Rescue Story
NIEUWLANDE, Netherlands (JTA) — On a cold February morning in 1945, a Dutch Nazi SS unit noticed a foreign-looking man walking around a farm in this remote village.
The Nazis co...
Ultra-Orthodox Unrest Threatens Netanyahu Re-Election Hopes
JERUSALEM (AP) — As he seeks reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a straightforward strategy: Count on the rock-solid support of his ultra-Orthodox p...
Extradited Teacher Appears In Australia Court On Abuse Charges
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
Israe...
Germany’s Angela Merkel Participates In Historic Torah Scroll Writing Ceremony
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel observed the finishing of a refurbished Torah scroll in an event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin on Wednesday.
The ...
Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop By 50% In France, But Physical Assaults Remain Almost Unchanged
PARIS (JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in France in 2020 has dropped by 50% from 2019, yet physical assaults have remained almost unchanged despite COVID-19 lo...
‘We Owe This To Them’: Shoah Survivors In Vaccine Spotlight
VIENNA (AP) — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia got their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, an acknowledgement of past suffering and a tribute to...
In A First, Arab-Initiated Event Commemorates The Holocaust In Wake Of Abraham Accords
(January 27, 2021 / JNS) In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from the group Sharaka held an event to mem...
Luxembourg Signs Restitution Deal For Holocaust Victims
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The Luxembourg government signed a deal Wednesday with the World Jewish Restitution Organization to pay reparations and to restitute dormant bank accounts, insura...
Germany Remembers Auschwitz Liberation In Parliament
BERLIN (AP) — A survivor of the Holocaust and a young Jewish immigrant spoke about their lives in Germany at a special parliamentary session Wednesday commemorating the victims of ...
Germany Compensates Heirs For Nazi-Looted Liszt Scores
BERLIN (AP) — A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt befo...
Pope Marking Holocaust Warns Another Extermination Possible
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by warning that warped ideologies can pave the way to another mass extermination.
Francis spoke off the cu...
Op-Ed: When Buses Burn In Bnei Brak, Police Cars Are Burning In Arab Villages
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Bnei Brak has never been a focal point for police activity in the past. Despite being one of the most crowded and densely populated towns in Israel, with ove...
Auschwitz Survivors Mark Anniversary Online Amid Pandemic
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp's final days.
Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman ...
United Hatzalah Volunteer Saves Live Of Expectant Woman And Baby, Serves As Mohel For Baby’s Bris
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Nir Dorfman serves as a volunteer EMT in the United Hatzalah organization. Recently he was called to the house of a woman about to give birth who had a ...
Honoring The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands Of Jews From Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honored a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to...
Antwerp Mayor Says Haredi Orthodox Ignoring COVID Measures Has Triggered Anti-Semitism — And It Could Get Worse
ANTWERP (JTA) — The mayor of Antwerp, a city in Belgium where about 15,000 haredi Orthodox Jews live, warned that their failure to comply with COVID-19 measures has triggered anti-...
Videos: Man With Knife Arrested In Williamsburg For Assault
WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — A man was arrested in Willimasburg on Tuesday, with the help of Williamsburg Shomrim, after he assualted someone.
Video footage captured the man assault...