Over 70 items, believed to have been brought in to Argentina by Nazis after World War II, to become part of an exhibit "in the service of transmitting democratic values, education, and the fight for memory so tragedies like the Holocaust are not repeated," president of the Museum of the Holocaust says.
Three years ago, about a dozen students went to their local waterfront and cleaned almost 100 pounds of trash. The momentum built from there.
For four years, Spain allowed foreign Sephardim to apply to become Spanish nationals without giving up their current citizenship. About half of the applications were submitted in the past month, mostly from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.
New exhibition shows how Jews risked their lives to observe their traditions, even in the darkest of times. "For them, it was all about holding on to the known past, the sane past they had before things turned upside down," says archives director in museum.
"Approximately 25% of the elderly population in Israel will not be able to fully provide for themselves this month," the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews says in a statement. Organization engages in extensive effort to make sure low-income Israelis can properly celebrate new year.
Newly installed Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, speaking at Columbia University, passes on the chance to take back blog posts in which he said he was proud to be labeled anti-Semitic.
The center will include registration offices, facilities for premarital counseling, and a mikveh where brides can immerse in a private, dignified setting. Former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: “So many Jews feel that the religious world is looking down on them. Tzohar says be part of this heritage. It is yours as much as it is ours."
Matthew Amiot enters his guilty pleas on negligent fire charges. Police say they don't believe the fire was a hate crime.
Israel’s national library unearths an 80-year-old Jewish New Year greeting that the father of modern India sent to Bombay Zionist Association head Avraham Shohet on Sept. 1, 1939, at the outbreak of World War II.
Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch oversees process of removing notes and burying them on the Mount of Olives to ensure there is always room between the stones.
