Holocaust

The undergraduates learned about each others’ histories and cultures. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Adelphi University in Long Island, N.Y., inaugurated its first two-day trip to two museums in Washington, D.C. in early March to promote empathy and understanding between black and Jewish students. On the first day, the 18…

The agreement comes “during an unprecedented rise in antisemitism and decline in Holocaust literacy,” stated Rabbi Ari Berman, Yeshiva University president. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Yeshiva University president Rabbi Ari Berman and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to lay the groundwork for the…

(March 31, 2023 / JNS) Victims and relatives have yet to claim millions of belongings that Nazi authorities stole from Jews and others during the Holocaust, a British official said on March 28 during an international conference of Holocaust representatives in London. Eric Pickles, the United Kingdom government’s special envoy…

Published Mar 27, 2023  •  3 minute read Amina Abdulle, equity consultant for the Greater Essex District Public School Board, accompanied a group of two dozen educators on a trip to Poland to learn more about jewish life and the Holocaust. Photo by Amina Abdulle /Windsor Star A Windsor educator…

(RNS) — In 2008, Shay Pilnik was a Ph.D. student living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, whose first university gig came in the form of a Holocaust course that nobody wanted to teach. “To pitch myself as a candidate for that class was very easy,” Pilnik said about becoming an adjunct instructor…

Late last year, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) invited Steven Rambam to speak to a class of grade 10 students at Westmount High School. The idea was to educate the kids on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Rambam was introduced to the class as a “Nazi hunter” and a “hero”.…

The Michigan Republican Party is facing bipartisan backlash over social media posts Wednesday that tied recently passed gun bills to the Holocaust. The firestorm started when the state GOP posted a photo showing wedding rings that had been removed from Holocaust victims, embossed with the words, “Before they collected all…

As people still reel from a mass shooting at Michigan State University that left three people dead and another five injured, Michigan Republicans are now comparing modest gun regulation to the Holocaust. In a Twitter post Wednesday morning, the official Michigan GOP account posted a photo referencing the Nazis’ seizure…

(March 22, 2023 / JNS) “History has shown us that the first thing a government does when it wants total control over its people is to disarm them. President Reagan once stated, ‘If we lose freedom here, there is nowhere else to escape to. This is the last stand on…

Twitter is running ads for companies including Nokia, The Wall Street Journal, and Mailchimp alongside tweets from Holocaust deniers, according to a report by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America. Media Matters reviewed five Twitter accounts belonging to neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers and found that ads for prominent…