(JTA) — ZAGREB, Croatia — Among the Jews who gathered in nine cities and towns in this former Yugoslav republic last week to commemorate Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — was Darko Fischer, one of about...
(JTA) — Harvard University’s president has apologized for the campus climate over the last year and a half, in a letter accompanying a long-awaited report from a university task force on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
The New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Committee held its annual community wide event to honor the memories of the six million Jews slain during the Shoah and those survivors who settled in New Orleans...
(JNS) – Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, started at sundown on Wednesday night with the annual ceremony at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
(JTA) — OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — At Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living, Maggie Megidish and her daughter, released hostage Ori, stood among a delegation of survivors of both the Holocaust and Oct. 7. The visit stirred...
(JTA) — Pope Francis, who significantly advanced the Catholic Church’s relationship with Jews by actively promoting dialogue, reconciliation and a strong stance against antisemitism — relations that were tested after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war —...
(JTA) — Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater royalty — lifted his baton for his New York debut with the Boston...
(JNS.org) – A man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were sleeping inside overnight Saturday, was arrested.
Shapiro, his wife, Lori, their four children, two dogs and another...
(JTA) — Last Passover, Agam Berger marked the holiday in the small, dim room in Gaza where she was being held hostage. With her fellow soldier Liri Albag, she used a makeshift haggadah to recount the story...
