Holocaust

Young children, tired of the stifling atmosphere of the synagogue, come outside to be with their mother in Djerba, Tunisia. January 01, 1950. 850,000 refugees from Tunisia and other Arab countries were expelled after the creation of Israel. (Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

The study of the Mizrahi Jews’ experience was added when the study of the Holocaust was reinstated to the 12th grade mandatory curriculum.

By Marcy Oster August 19, 2019 9:01 am

Opinion

Reading Anne Frank helped me start learning about Jews – and understand my own Native American history

Her diary sparked an attempt to understand how humanity could allow genocide to happen, says a writer based in Germany.

July 12, 2019 12:50 pm

Opinion

Legacy institutions don’t get to dictate how Jews use the lessons of the Holocaust

Mainstream Jewish groups are obsessed with “engagement” while ignoring moral issues that deeply resonate with millennials, writes an Orthodox activist.

July 9, 2019 4:17 pm

Croatia’s capital announces Holocaust memorial, but local Jews aren’t satisfied

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 27, 2019 6:05 am

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a briefing in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019. She has sparked a debate about the use of the term "concentration camps." (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

US Holocaust Museum rejects all ‘analogies between the Holocaust and other events’

By Ron Kampeas June 24, 2019 1:09 pm

German historian stripped of award for faking a family history of suffering in Holocaust

By Toby Axelrod June 4, 2019 1:35 pm

People attending a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 21, 2019 3:05 pm

Opinion

Sorry, Rashida Tlaib: Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

By Robert Rozett May 14, 2019 3:54 pm

Editor's Column Opinion

What did Rashida Tlaib say about the Holocaust? It’s probably not what you think.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 14, 2019 2:09 pm

Poland cancels visit of Israeli delegation over tension on Holocaust restitution

By Marcy Oster May 13, 2019 8:36 am

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Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

Reading Anne Frank helped me start learning about Jews – and understand my own Native American history

Legacy institutions don’t get to dictate how Jews use the lessons of the Holocaust

Croatia’s capital announces Holocaust memorial, but local Jews aren’t satisfied

US Holocaust Museum rejects all ‘analogies between the Holocaust and other events’

German historian stripped of award for faking a family history of suffering in Holocaust

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

Sorry, Rashida Tlaib: Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

What did Rashida Tlaib say about the Holocaust? It’s probably not what you think.

Poland cancels visit of Israeli delegation over tension on Holocaust restitution

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