Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
How these Jewish genealogists are repairing Nazi ‘dirty deeds’
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Nazis stole this Holocaust victim’s books. How his grandson unexpectedly got them back
Leibl Rosenberg, an official representative of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, Germany, has dedicated his life to finding ...
Why Are Jewish Celebrities in Hollywood So Afraid to Talk About Antisemitism? (Opinion)
Jewish celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic have been noticeably silent in the face of increases in antisemitism. Carl ...
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Local Jewish Day Schools Help Students Pass the Torch of Holocaust Awareness With In-Depth Program
Holocaust survivors are dwindling in number, leaving younger Jews without the firsthand perspective of the most gruesome massacre ...
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Where was God?: Purim in Post-Holocaust Theology
What does it mean to believe when God seems hidden? And what lessons can Purim—often seen as a lighthearted holiday—teach us about faith, agency, and moral courage?
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, has died at age 113
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades ...
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The Soille Family Hides During the Holocaust
Esther Soille decided to go up the ladder through the back window to the apartment, for she believed that if the Nazis found ...
Supreme Court revives Jewish family’s quest for painting looted by Nazis
The Cassirer family of California is hoping to finally reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting potentially worth tens of millions ...
How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation
Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A ...
Rose Girone, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113
She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would ...