Holocaust

The message, which suggested that COVID-19 measures have undone the liberation from the Nazis, drew sharp rebuke from Dutch Jews. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA   MAY 5, 2021 15:53 Arrest of Dutch Jews by the Nazis, February 1941 (photo credit: PHOTO COLLECTION/DUTCH GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE) A Dutch conservative party suggested on…

(RNS) — Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregation has chosen internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeskind to design a new building for the site where 11 Jews were gunned down in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. Libeskind, the architect behind such high-profile projects as the master plan for New York’s…

Vandalism hit a Holocaust memorial in Portland, Oregon, where police said they found spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols on the memorial and throughout the neighborhood Sunday morning. Swastikas among other graffiti desecrated the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park as the Portland Police Bureau currently investigate the incident. "The damage to the…

Rep. Liz Cheney was chastised by several male GOP colleagues following her vote to impeach Trump. Rep. Norman of South Carolina told Cheney that she had "a defiant attitude," according to The Times. Cheney refused to apologize for her vote and the caucus decided to keep her in leadership. See…

AFTER “HAMAS, HAMAS, JEWS TO THE GAS” CHANTS, DUTCH CHIEF RABBI AND MAYOR OF ARNHEM SET FOR FRANK, DIFFICULT BUT NECESSARY TOWN HALL MEETING WITH VITESSE FANS After supporters of Arnhem based Vitesse football club were heard chanting “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” ahead of a game against Amsterdam…

Amazon Prime Video has got the long weekend locked and loaded with the premiere of the much anticipated sci-fi, spy thriller, Tenet on 31th March 2021. From the mind that brought audiences across the globe films like Inception and the Christian Bale Batman Trilogy, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and…

A Canadian Jewish group has condemned the use of Holocaust symbolism by people protesting COVID-19 regulations, saying it is "disgusted and concerned" that the memory of the tragedy has been "tarnished" by such a movement. B'nai Brith Canada, a Jewish activist organization, referred in particular to attendees of a COVID-19…

Two Polish historians of the Holocaust, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, are fighting a court ruling that pronounced them guilty of defaming a long-deceased Polish village official. Grabowski and Engelking are the editors of “Dalej Jest Noc. Losy Żydów w Wybranych Powiatach Okupowanej Polski” (“Night Without End: The Fate of…

DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts high school fired its successful football coach and hired an outside consultant Wednesday to assist an investigation into reports that the team used anti-Semitic language, including a mention of Auschwitz, in its on-field play calling during a recent game. “The outrage is real, warranted,…

On Monday the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States approved the imposition of sanctions to be placed against four Chinese officials who are involved in the running of the concentration camps in Xinjiang where millions of Uyghurs have been and continue to be subjected to gross human…