Jewish World

Sophie Tajch Klisman thanks Doug Harvey, who served with the 84th Infantry Division, for his part in the 1945 liberation of the Salzwedel concentration camp.

Recipient of this year's Jerusalem Prize says her grandmother fled anti-Semitic persecution in Germany and for the rest of her life suppressed both her trauma and her Jewish heritage.

Holocaust survivor Laureen Nussbaum, 91, says new edition of the diary is "what Anne wanted to write and publish."

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich condemns Nation of Islam leader's comments, saying, "Anti-Semitic rhetoric … has no place in American public life."

In one of the largest anti-Jewish demonstrations in recent times, Polish protesters accuse Washington of putting "Jewish interests" over the interests of Poland. U.S. has no right to interfere in Polish affairs, demonstrators say.

Facebook has banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whom the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center consider an extremist, as a "dangerous individual."

Museum authorities at the former Nazi death camp have protested to an online vendor that was selling miniskirts, pillows and other items bearing photos of the camp, where some 1.1 million people were killed during World War II.

Poet Halina Birenbaum and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum threatened to boycott Turin International Book Fair if it included Italian publisher with links to neo-fascist CasaPound party.

U.S. Attorney Robert S. Brewer Jr. says it's possible the suspect, John T. Earnest, could face the death penalty following last month's shooting at Chabad of Poway, in a suburb north of San Diego. "We will not allow our community members to be hunted in their houses of worship," says Brewer.

High-ranking officials of Germany's Lutheran church unveil the installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called "dejudification institute" that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis.