Holocaust

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…

SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Wednesday a high-level Israeli offical said it accepted Seoul's explanation of President Lee Jae Myung's social media remarks on the Holocaust and that the situation had been resolved. Lee sparked a diplomatic row and domestic criticism after…

A participant wrapped into a flag of Israel stands at the main gate with the lettering “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) at the start of the annual March of The Living to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II, at the memorial site of the…

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U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Olichel/Pixabay. ( Apr. 13, 2026 / JNS ) U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation into law on Monday that helps Holocaust survivors and their families recover artwork looted by the Nazis. The bill , the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, will…