Holocaust

JTA — Growing up in Buffalo, New York, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer always knew he was the child of Holocaust survivors. His parents, both Polish Jews, told him often about their experiences surviving the concentration camps. “I knew many children of Holocaust survivors whose parents didn’t speak about it,” Blitzer…

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota (AP) — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticized Republican challenger Scott Jensen on Thursday for repeated comments that equated masking rules and other restrictions the governor imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of authoritarianism in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Walz said such casual Holocaust…

Amblin Television is partnering with Scholastic Entertainment, the media division of Scholastic, and Marlee Matlin’s Solo One Productions to co-develop and co-produce a new live-action limited series based on the Scholastic youth memoir “Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust,” by Renee Hartman and written by Joshua M. Greene.…

(RNS) — Quick Arabic lesson. The word is “zalla.” Translation (into French, of course): “Faux pas.” That would pretty much define what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas committed recently in Germany. A reporter in Berlin asked Abbas if he was ready to apologize for the killing of 11 Israeli athletes…

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Political correspondent Tal Schneider and features writer Renee Ghert-Zand join host Amanda Borschel-Dan. Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the influential spiritual leader of the…

Although photographs are among the most useful tools we have to remind ourselves that the recent past was populated by living, breathing people just like us, they do have their limits. Moving pictures—the ones most of us now make so casually, with the miniature computers we carry around in our…

Author of the article: BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians. The remarks, during a news conference in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, sparked outrage in Germany, Israel…

JTA — Jesse Eisenberg’s newest film directing project follows two estranged cousins who travel to Poland and learn about their grandmother’s Holocaust story. “A Real Pain,” which will star Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, will begin shooting in Warsaw in March, Screen Daily reported on Wednesday. After their grandmother dies, according…

JTA — The superintendent of the Texas school district that this week ordered the removal of “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” from its school’s shelves said Thursday that he expected the book, along with the Bible and other books that were removed following parental challenges, “will be on shelves…

Author of the article: The Associated Press Frank Jordans BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israel’s prime minister Thursday that he condemns any attempts to deny or downplay the Holocaust, offering reassurance after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sparked outrage with remarks to that effect earlier this week. Speaking…