Holocaust

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…

Alabama this week signed the most aggressively anti-abortion law in recent American history. If enacted, the law would only permit abortions only if the mother’s life is at risk or if the fetus cannot survive, but not in cases of rape or incest. Alabama is n…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli prosecutors filed charges on Thursday against a man accused of spitting on Poland’s ambassador, an incident that drew strong condemnation from Warsaw and underscored tensions between the countries over anti-Semitism and Holocaust…

I was nine when I first saw the numbers: 176924 inked unforgivingly into my grandfather's skin. As the grandchild of Auschwitz concentration camp survivors, I did not grow up hearing blissful stories of their youth. My family’s history is filled with cattle…

Israel stood still as a two-minute siren across the country played in remembrance of the Holocaust. USA TODAY Harvard's satire magazine has apologized for publishing a doctored image of Anne Frank after outraged students said the image improperly sexualize…