Holocaust

© Studio Libeskind Daniel Libeskind has collaborated with photographer Caryl Englander and curator Henri Lustiger Thaler from the Amud Aish Memorial Museum to present a temporary exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Through the Lens of Faith op…

William Happer -- a physicist and former Princeton professor -- already serves on Trump's National Security Council as deputy assistant for emerging technologies; but now he's been promoted to chair of a climate review panel charged with discrediting the Nati…

Vienna (AFP) Vandals have attacked portraits of Holocaust victims in the streets of central Vienna, President Alexander Van der Bellen said Monday, adding that he was "deeply worried" over the assaults. The attack overnight Sunday was the third since the sh…

(Adds context) WARSAW, May 26 (Reuters) - Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) came out narrowly ahead in Sunday's European Parliament vote, seen as test of the party's nationalist, eurosceptic platform before a national election later in the year. A…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Skullcaps - or kippahs - are traditionally worn by Jewish men The German government's anti-Semitism commissioner has urged Jews to avoid wearing skullcaps in public. Felix Klein warned Jews against donning the kipp…

Ms. Kerrs modest humility and wry wit made her a beloved figure. She received many awards in her lifetime and was named in 2012 an OBE, or an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for childrens literature and Holocaust education. In a 20…

BERLIN (AP) Photos of Holocaust survivors exhibited on a central Vienna street have been defaced with swastikas, drawing condemnation from political and Jewish leaders. Broadcaster ORF reported Wednesday that ESRA, a group that brought the work by German-Ita…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) With Julian Assange locked away in a London jail, a new battle has broken out over what may contain some of the WikiLeaks founders biggest secrets: his computers. On Monday, judicial authorities from Ecuador carried out an inventory of …

Moscow (AFP) The entire politics desk of one of Russia's top daily newspapers, Kommersant, quit on Monday in protest over censorship after two veteran reporters were fired. The walkout at the newspaper controlled by pro-Kremlin tycoon Alisher Usmanov is a r…

While Al Jazeeras English version attempts to appeal to audiences with Western sensitbilities, its Arabic channel regularly hosts speakers such as Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood preacher known for his virulent anti-American and anti-Semitic di…