Holocaust

The Jewish population is estimated at about 15.8 million, still below pre-Holocaust levels, when between 16.5 and 16.7 million Jews lived worldwide, including roughly 9.5 million in Europe, according to data released on Sunday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report shows that…

On Monday evening, Israelis will mark Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The solemn annual observance will be commemorated nationwide with official ceremonies, alongside local events, school programs, and private moments of remembrance, as survivors and their descendants honor the Holocaust in their own ways. According to statistics, roughly 100,000…

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Apr. 7, 2026, 6:13 PM EDT Happy Tuesday. Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics. Trump seeks funds to snoop on liberals Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., sounded the alarm on Monday over the Trump administration’s latest budget proposal, particularly…

A man examines the informational plaque near the main Holocaust monument in Hanover, Germany on Oct. 25, 2013. Photo by Bernd Schwabe via Wikimedia Commons. Unidentified individuals sprayed antisemitic slogans on a Holocaust memorial monument in the city of Hanover in Germany on Wednesday, the mayor said. “These slogans on…

By RACHEL BOWMAN, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and KATRINA SCHOLLENBERGER, US HEAD OF LIVE NEWS Updated: 02:32 GMT, 22 March 2026 It was supposed to be Hollywood's biggest night.  But between 'painful' monologues from host Conan O'Brien to 'boring' results and one distasteful joke about the Holocaust, viewers were left…

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WASHINGTON, DC — Israel and the Jewish people are presently facing “the worst wave of antisemitism since the Holocaust, which brought the annihilation of six million Jews, and the worst of human atrocities.” That’s the assessment of Israeli President Isaac Herzog. With a massive and potentially history-changing war looming in…

The producer of a new film about a Holocaust survivor says she hopes it educates the public at a time of rising antisemitism and growing Holocaust denial. That film, The Optimist, follows the story of Herbert, a Jewish survivor who has long concealed his past in Auschwitz from his family,…

Feature / February 16, 2026 After the Holocaust, Israel was hailed as the solution to an essentially antisemitic debate. Now, as another genocide unfolds—in Gaza—Jews are once again questioning the question. Mame loshn: Attendees at the first Yiddish Language Conference in Czernowitz, 1908. In late August 1908, some 70 delegates…