admin | February 3, 2021
As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated.
admin | February 3, 2021
The national Holocaust memorial centre in Westminster will be free in perpetuity to visitors when it opens, the Communities Secretary has announced. Robert Jenrick said the decision would put the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, due to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens next to Parliament, on the same footing as the UKs most significant museums and monuments
admin | February 3, 2021
I feel like I just lost a childhood friend. Sonny Fox, the host of Wonderama, died this past week of COVID related pneumonia. He was 95 years old.
admin | December 16, 2020
A Polish diplomat serving in Turkey during World War II helped save hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis by issuing them false certificates that identified them as Christians, an Israeli newspaper revealed in an expose published Friday. Wojciech Rychlewicz, then a consul in Istanbul, provided the documents to the European refugees at no pay.
admin | December 16, 2020
A group of Dallas high school students recently fired up their laptops, tablets and phones for a virtual visit to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The field trip started like any of the thousands held every year at the facility, with the museums top educator leading the way.
admin | December 16, 2020
The preposterous claim of the Jews to have a special relationship with God seems like an exercise in narcissism.
admin | December 16, 2020
In a powerful letter addressed to the Armenian National Committee of AmericaWestern Region Board of Directors, the California Teachers Association PresidentE. Toby Boydshared his groups solidarity with the Armenian Community in denouncing in the strongest possible terms the aggressions and war crimes committed in Artsakh by the Azerbaijani government
admin | December 16, 2020
On December 10, the world will celebrate International Human Rights day, on the 72nd anniversary of the formal acceptance of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN General Assembly. That same evening, Jews around the world will begin to light candles in celebration of the holiday of Chanukah. These two occasions, which coincide this year, commemorate and enshrine a resilient commitment to fight for freedom
admin | December 5, 2020
Following a year of an international diplomatic campaign jointly led by the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, Odelia Fitoussi was elected on Monday to represent Israel at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).The CRPD is the leading UN body responsible for formulating a global policy for the 182 signatory states to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
admin | December 5, 2020
Israel's governing coalition is falling apart, setting the stage for the fourth election in two years. Driving the news: Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced tonight that his Blue and White party would vote in favor of dissolving parliament on Wednesday because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Gantz's political rival turned coalition partner was refusing to pass a budget and reneging on their power-sharing deal
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