Vienna’s Jewish community demanded an investigation into the remarks but the Freedom Pary insisted no harm was meant. The comments by Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache and an associate were first reported Sunday on the website of the daily … Read More »
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Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar
LONDON (AP) — A taut domestic drama from Iran is competing against a Belgian thriller, a true Polish tale from the Holocaust and dramas from Canada and Israel in the Academy Awards race for best foreign-language film. Nominees announced Tuesday in Los … Read More »
Hungary launches Wallenberg memorial year
Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, Swedish counterpart, Carl Bildt and Israeli Cabinet member Yossi Peled were joined at the inaugural event at the National Museum in Budapest on Tuesday by members of Wallenberg’s family and Holocaust survivors … Read More »
Yaffa Yarkoni, Israeli wartime singer, dies at 86
The furor arose when she made comparisons between an Israeli military operation in the West Bank and the Holocaust . “We are a nation that went through the Holocaust . How can we do things like this to another nation?” she told Israel’s Army Radio. … Read More »
Israel officials slam Holocaust symbols at protest
“It’s shocking and terrifying,” Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told public radio on Sunday, a day after hundreds gathered to protest “incitement against the ultra-Orthodox public” in Israel’s media. “The leadership of the Orthodox Jewish community … Read More »
Ultra-Orthodox Jews wear Holocaust garb at religious protest
“The phenomenon of the exclusion of women from ultra-Orthodox streets is an act of intolerable barbarism,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview published on Friday by Israel’s top-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper. … Read More »
‘Turkish passport,’ untold tale of Holocaust survivors
In a recent article reprinted in several Turkish newspapers and websites, Hoffman said the movie was “rewriting history” with one of its “central messages — that the Turkish government was actively involved in saving Jewish lives in Europe. … Read More »
UNESCO cuts funds for Palestinian magazine
A US group, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, released a statement praising UNESCO’s decision. “As victims of the horrors of Nazi brutality, we learned with deep shock that a Palestinian children’s magazine … Read More »
South Sudan leader makes first visit to Israel
The South Sudanese leader arrived late on Monday, press reports said, and was due to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Israel recognised South Sudan and established full diplomatic relations with Kiir’s government … Read More »
US backs envoy after Israel remarks
Ambassador Howard Gutman, who is Jewish and the son of a Holocaust survivor, said in a speech that a new type of anti-Semitism has emerged in Europe that is not “classic bigotry” but instead linked to the conflict and hence resolvable. … Read More »
Israel to show secret items from Eichmann capture
Eichmann, known as the “architect of the Holocaust ” for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, fled Germany after WWII and was captured in Argentina by Mossad agents. His 1961 trial captured world attention. An exhibit this year at Israel’s … Read More »
Jewish cemetery in Kosovo capital desecrated
The few that remained left for Israel and Serbia during and after the 1998-99 Kosovo war. In a statement sent to The Associated Press an American Jewish group branded the desecration of the cemetery as “a heinous act.” ” Holocaust survivors are shocked … Read More »
Warsaw Chamber Opera revives work of Holocaust victims
Among them is “Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung” (The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death’s Refusal) by the German-speaking Czech Jew Viktor Ullman. Ullman, who studied under Austrian master Arnold Schoenberg before World War I, … Read More »
Anne Frank’s apartment open to public for 1 day
On leaving the apartment, the family moved to a small hidden apartment behind a canal house where Anne wrote most of the diary that turned her into a symbol of Jewish suffering during the Holocaust after it was posthumously published. … Read More »
Face-lifting party
Bearded Chasidim danced joyfully with recent Israeli army graduates, as Ofri Meir sang nostalgic mizrachi melodies and crowds of local Jews noshed on kosher sushi, grilled salmon, roasted vegetables and tasty Middle Eastern desserts.. Read More »
Poll shows strong Israeli support for Iran attack – Associated Press, USA
The Israeli government would have significant support at home for an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, according to a poll published Thursday. Read More »
Poland has largest gathering of rabbis since WWII
This has become an issue in countries like Poland, where many people with Jewish ancestry were so traumatized by the Holocaust and postwar anti-Semitism that they lived secular or Christian lives for decades and are only now again embracing a Jewish … Read More »
Hungarians rally against far-right theatre director – Agence France Presse, France
Hungarians rallied on Saturday against the appointment of far-rightists to direct a Budapest theatre, a move which has triggered international protests. Read More »
Iraqi Jews yearn for lost homeland
But between 1948 and 1951, nearly all of the country’s 2500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbreak of nationalist violence. “The issue of Jews in Iraq dates back to 1948 and the organised work of Zionism to relocate them to a … Read More »
Pioneer of Israel’s settler movement dies
Born in 1943 in British Mandate Palestine, he was raised on a kibbutz built by Holocaust survivors near the West Bank town of Bethlehem which was later destroyed during the war that accompanied Israel’s establishment in 1948. After the 1967 Six Day War … Read More »
Iran nuclear drive heightens risk of strike: France – Agence France Presse
France’s UN envoy warned that Iran faces the risk of a military strike if it pursues its nuclear drive because certain countries would not accept it having an atomic weapon. Read More »
Netanyahu slams “outrageous” Erdogan remarks – Agence France Presse
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “outrageous” remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan in which he claimed Israel had killed “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians. Read More »
WWII Jewish ghetto victims in Lithuania remembered
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A memorial ceremony for thousands of Jewish victims of the Holocaust is under way in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Volunteers are reading the names of thousands of Jews who were forced to live in the ghetto and … Read More »
Iran publicly executes 17-year-old – Agence France Presse, France
Iran on Wednesday publicly hanged a teenage boy convicted of killing an athlete billed as “Iran’s strongest man,” local media reported. Read More »
As UN revisits an painful chapter, some wonder why
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN’s first conference on racism ended up in fierce acrimony, with accusations that it was hijacked to bash Israel , Zionism and Jews. Ten years after that event in Durban, South Africa, member states are meeting again on the … Read More »
Obama: Palestinian UN bid a “distraction” – Agence France Presse
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that a Palestinian bid for recognition next week at the United Nations was a “distraction” and would not result in viable statehood. Read More »
Mel Gibson plans to produce film on Jewish hero
The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants said: ” Holocaust survivors are aghast that a major Hollywood studio would join with Mel Gibson in this venture and view it as an affront to all victims of anti-Semitism, intolerance, … Read More »
Palestine statehood ‘step forward’: Iran
Ahmadinejad reiterated that the Holocaust was a “lie” which he said was used as an excuse for Israel’s creation. The hardline president, whose vitriolic attacks on the Jewish state and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a “myth” have drawn international … Read More »
Jerusalem’s walls restored, idiosyncracies and all – Associated Press, USA
Israeli experts are nearing completion of an ambitious restoration of the five-century-old walls of Jerusalem, the holy city’s dominant architectural feature and a unique record of its eventful and troubled history. Read More »
Three attacks target Israelis near Egypt, six people dead – Associated Press, USA
Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen more, officials said. Read More »
In a Jerusalem tunnel, a glimpse of an ancient war – Associated Press, USA
The excavation of an ancient drainage tunnel beneath Jerusalem has yielded a sword, oil lamps, pots and coins abandoned during a war here 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said, suggesting the finds were debris from a pivotal episode in the city’s history when rebels hid from Roman soldiers crushing a Jewish revolt. Read More »
New report on Swedish queen’s father’s Nazi ties
The report — published Tuesday — said although Walther Sommerlath belonged to the NSDAP Nazi party, he appeared to have been an inactive member and had helped a Jewish businessman escape the Holocaust . Swedish media reported in 2002 that Sommerlath … Read More »
Jewish group: Romanian word is anti-Semitic
The word is the most offensive that exists in the Romanian language for a Jew , but it is also mainly used colloquially by elderly Romanians who would not consider themselves anti-Semitic. ” Holocaust survivors are aghast at the casual reference to this … Read More »
US Jews urge Castro to free contractor
In his appeal, Elan Steinberg, vice president of The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants, noted that Alan Gross has lost 90 pounds (40 kilograms) and “is suffering from serious physical ailments as well as from extreme … Read More »
Search for displaced Holocaust kids seen in photos
In the decades that followed, Meicler built a life, first in Israel , then in America. He married twice, had three children, bought an upholstery company in Texas and is now retired. He was surprised to receive an email from the Holocaust museum this … Read More »
Holocaust survivor treasures mother’s last letters
He told his story for the Holocaust museum’s photo project on displaced Jewish children but insists he fared better than many others. “Some of these children went through hell,” he says. “Not having a mother — it was difficult for me. … Read More »
Holy Land clerics launch interfaith Earth forum – Agence France Presse
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders in the Holy Land have joined forces to launch a multi-faith environmental campaign, citing religious injunctions to protect the Earth across their three faiths. Read More »
Israel fire near Holocaust museum was ‘accident’
JERUSALEM — A forest fire that prompted the evacuation of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum was likely started accidentally by a man burning rubbish in his backyard, Jerusalem police said on Monday. The fire spread rapidly on Sunday afternoon in … Read More »
Malaysia media claims Jewish plot after rally – Associated Press, USA
alaysia’s government-linked media claimed Monday that foreign Jewish groups might try to use an opposition-backed push to reform electoral laws to interfere in this Muslim-majority country. Read More »
Ceremony honors Jews killed by Polish neighbors
… in the Jedwabne massacre, saying they assisted German forces in the killings, which took place after German troops occupied Poland at the start of the war. Some 3 million of Poland’s prewar Jewish population of 3.5 million were killed in the Holocaust . Read More »
Gaza flotilla activists detained in Greece – Associated Press, USA
Greek authorities have detained three activists attempting to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, after a boat set sail in defiance of a Greek ban, officials and pro-Palestinian activists said Tuesday. Read More »
Abbas might delay Palestinian unity government – Associated Press, USA
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might put off the formation of a unity government with the Islamic militant group Hamas to avoid alienating his Western allies ahead of a UN vote on statehood, a senior PLO official has said. Read More »
Lawmakers work out ritual slaughter ban compromise – Associated Press, USA
Dutch lawmakers are set to ban centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions of slaughtering animals, but agreed Wednesday to a last-minute compromise offering religious groups exemptions, if they can prove their method of killing livestock does not cause additional suffering. Read More »
Spain Jews rail against court decision to overturn convictions in pro-Nazi …
MADRID — The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain has slammed a Supreme Court decision to overturn the convictions of four people accused of distributing pro-Nazi publications. The federation said Monday it noted “with extreme concern” that … Read More »
European neo-Nazi websites find home in US
Raimund Fastenbauer, a senior Jewish Community official, said American authorities have legal grounds to cooperate in taking down the site. “In part, there have been some concrete threats we believe would be punishable under American law,” Fastenbauer … Read More »
Turkey warns Israel over new Gaza flotilla – Agence France Presse
Turkey has warned Israel against another act of bloodshed in international waters after activists announced plans to send a new aid flotilla to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Read More »
Justice Breyer leads annual Holocaust ceremony
He made the comments Tuesday as he led annual ceremonies in the Capitol to remember the Holocaust . Breyer told those in attendance that he was there “as a judge and a Jew .” The several hundred people on hand included members of Congress and Holocaust … Read More »
7 decades after Hitler’s fall, German grandchildren of Nazis delve into family …
The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hearing he was the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the death camp synonymous with the Holocaust . “He beat me, because he projected on me all the horror he … Read More »
Trove of historic records of Holocaust goes online
NEW YORK (AP) — A trove of records documenting the lives of thousands of Holocaust victims and survivors is going online for the first time. One of the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian aid agencies, the New York-based American Jewish Joint … Read More »
Bitter herbs of Passover sweet for Poland’s Jews
The community also wants other Jews — notably from the United States and Israel who visit Holocaust sites — to wake up to its revival and even very existence and stop seeing Poland simply as a place of death. That was echoed by Polish-born Irith … Read More »
UAE calls for Iran to “respect” Gulf neighbours – AFP, France
Iran should respect the unity of its Arab neighbors in the Gulf, the United Arab Emirates foreign minister said on Wednesday. Read More »
Survivors, officials lay wreaths to mark 68 years since Warsaw Ghetto uprising
WARSAW, Poland — Holocaust survivors and city officials have laid wreaths in ceremonies marking 68 years since Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto began an armed resistance against the Nazis. Flowers were laid Tuesday at the monument to Ghetto … Read More »
Police watch LA synagogues, seek suspect after blast – Agence France Presse
Police have stepped up patrols around synagogues and Jewish centers in the west Los Angeles area after a homemade bomb blast triggered a hunt for a suspect described as “extremely dangerous. Read More »
Israel , US, Germany mark 50 years since Nazi trial
“Regrettably, our enemies and those who seek Jewish lives have not gone from the world, but the State of Israel exists and it knows how to defend itself.” Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire … Read More »
New Berlin exhibition on Nazi Eichmann
BERLIN — A new exhibition opens in Berlin Tuesday marking 50 years since Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel after being kidnapped in Argentina by Mossad agents. The temporary exhibition in the Topography of Terror museum explores … Read More »
Poland’s Jews celebrate reopening of Renaissance synagogue after restoration
The synagogue is a jewel of Renaissance architecture located in the eastern Polish town of Zamosc. It is considered one of the most important surviving synagogues in a country that was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before the Holocaust . … Read More »
Austria presents plans to restore, revamp WWII Mauthausen concentration camp
It is now a site for commemorating Holocaust victims and learning about the horrors of history. About 200000 people — including many students — visit Mauthausen each year. Projects include an exhibit about mass extermination, expanding educational … Read More »
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons undeterred by Jerusalem bombing, says Jews, Arabs …
Simmons said that he has already begun arrangements for multiple Kiss concerts in Israel , and that the band would also love to perform in the Arab world as well. But he said the band, known for its makeup, flamboyant outfits and pyrotechnics, … Read More »
World powers press Iran to cooperate with IAEA – Agence France Presse
The P5+1 group of Western powers has urged Iran to cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog, otherwise it could soon face further censure for blocking the investigation into its controversial nuclear drive. Read More »
French documentary about Holocaust to be shown in Farsi on Iranian satellite TV
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned historical accounts of the Holocaust , and called for Israel’s destruction. The Aladdin Project tried twice to get a green light from Iranian authorities to hold a press conference in Tehran about the … Read More »
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