Chabad of Poway synagogue sought a $150,000 federal grant to install gates and more secure doors, but it took nearly a year for the application to be approved and the money to be distributed. "Obviously, we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet," says Rabbi Simcha Backman, a week after the deadly shooting.
As Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands attend annual event in Poland to keep the memory of the six million Jews alive.
Under Spanish law, "Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie" by Camille Pissarro legally belongs to the museum, although District Court Judge John F. Walter called decision to keep the work "inconsistent" with international agreements.
New survey finds many Austrians lack basic knowledge of Nazi genocide, even though Mauthausen concentration camp was just outside city of Linz and some key perpetrators of the Holocaust were Austrian.
Speaking at state ceremony at Yad Vashem, President Reuven Rivlin says, "No interest and no consideration of realpolitik can justify a dishonorable alliance with racist groups or elements who do not acknowledge their past and their responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust."
"What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?" asks a trailer for the "Eva Stories" project that launches ahead of Wednesday's Holocaust Remembrance Day
John T. Earnest fired eight to 10 shots, fatally hitting Lori Kaye and wounded three others. He apparently intended to keep shooting, but struggled with his weapon.
Days after Israeli Holocaust memorial recognizes wartime Polish diplomat for saving Jews, supporters of two other diplomats in famous group want them to be recognized as well.
Family and friends of the late Lori Kaye, who threw herself in front of the rabbi of her congregation in Saturday's shooting, celebrate the life of a "generous, vivacious, and devout woman" • Daughter Hannah Kaye says she "knows" her mother has forgiven shooter.
Thousands attend the Jerusalem funeral of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, scion of a Hungarian rabbinic dynasty, who died Sunday aged 96. Taub helped produce a two-volume encyclopedia documenting Jewish religious martyrs killed in the Holocaust.
