Holocaust

For over 100 years, The New York Times has continuously, and very famously, blasted its very famous seven-word slogan daily on the front page of its masthead. It reads, "All the news that's fit to print.” But according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this latest so-called “news” about alleged Israeli atrocities against Palestinians is not only not news. He says it’s antisemitic blood libel.  Netanyahu is now…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Israel: What Went Wrong? That’s the title of a new book by the renowned Israeli American Holocaust scholar and…

BERLIN (AP) — Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died at the age of 101, authorities in his home region said Tuesday. Weinberg died in Leer, in northwestern Germany,…

As the number of living Holocaust survivors rapidly declines, educators and historians are increasingly debating whether artificial intelligence can help preserve Holocaust memory – or distort it. The debate intensified after the World Jewish Congress released an AI-generated video of Anne Frank as part of an educational campaign, drawing both…

Doug Mastriano, a Republican Pennsylvania state senator, speaks during a rally for U.S. President Donald Trump’s second presidential campaign at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., Nov. 5, 2022. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images. ( May 12, 2026 / JNS ) U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Doug Mastriano,…

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Dan Wyman with a set of 1945 “Yiddish Daily Forward” issues. Credit: courtesy. ( May 8, 2026 / JNS ) Three Ashkenazi prayer books, reportedly the first known machzors printed in the United States, are up for sale for nearly $25,000. Dan Wyman, a Jewish rare book dealer in Brooklyn,…

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – “How close was the Iranian regime to being able to have nuclear weapons and being able to pull off a Second Holocaust?” That’s the question I put to Israeli Cabinet Minister Amichai Chikli, who serves as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s point man for diaspora affairs and combating…

Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution The controversial "sunset clause" of a 2016 law led watchdogs to believe that those owning looted works were purposefully obscuring them from public view until the deadline had passed. A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated…

JERUSALEM—Ara Jeretzian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, noticed chilling parallels to his own family’s experiences when Budapest’s Jews were ordered into a ghetto by the Nazis in 1944. After having escaped the slaughter of Armenians, including his own family members, in Ottoman Turkey in 1918, Jeretzian used his influence…