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Holocaust Remembrance Day

In Holocaust Remembrance Day message, Obama cites commitment to combat intolerance

U.S. president says that on this day we must 'commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.'

By JTA | Apr 9, 2013 | 05:27 AM | 3

At Yad Vashem, a visibly moved Obama says 'never again'
By Judy Maltz | 2

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz leading the March of the Living.

IDF chief in Poland: We will never again stand unready to defend ourselves

Benny Gantz makes a speech to thousands of youths marching at Auschwitz-Birkenau in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

By Haaretz, The Associated Press | Apr 8, 2013 | 09:00 PM | 4

The Germans who declared, 'We will not be silent'

This year marks 70 years since the hanging of the leaders of the anti-Nazi resistance movement, the White Rose, who staged the lone public protest against Nazism ever staged by Germans during the war.

By Jud Newborn | Apr 8, 2013 | 08:01 PM | 4

American Chaplain Rabbi Hershel Schaecter leading the Shavuot prayer service for survivors

LISTEN: Deceased U.S. Army rabbi's account of Buchenwald liberation

Rabbi Herschel Schacter - the first Jewish chaplain to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp an hour after its liberation in 1945, who died March 21 at the age of 95 - made a little-known recording describing his first moments in the camp.

By Mordechai I. Twersky | Apr 8, 2013 | 06:50 PM

Israel to transfer NIS 400m to Holocaust survivors over four years

Finance Minister Yair Lapid reverses previous treasury decision not to provide additional funding to reinstate nursing hours for survivors.

By Jonathan Lis, Talila Nesher | Apr 8, 2013 | 05:17 PM

Olympic gold could not save them from the gas chambers

The success of the Dutch-Jewish women's gymnastics team challenged Nazi eugenics. The athletes, along with their Jewish coach, were the first in Amsterdam to be deported.

By Uzi Dann | Apr 8, 2013 | 04:41 PM | 3

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel must do more than just remember

What message does Israel send when it focuses more on a potential second Holocaust that on those who survived the first one? When it fails to adequately care for the very Jews who have suffered the most?

By Anat Rosenberg | Apr 8, 2013 | 12:59 PM | 2

Lighted candles stand in front of a commemorative projection during a ceremony

Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

Events began on Sunday night at 8 P.M with official ceremony at Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies in Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak.

By Ofer Aderet | Apr 8, 2013 | 11:50 AM

Israeli Ido Porat is the first 'Jew in a glass box'

Putting a Jew in a box before Holocaust Remembrance Day - tasteless or fitting?

There is no greater victory over Adolf Hitler than having Jews in the very heart of Berlin educating, breathing, and living as a part of the cultural landscape, but is creating an exhibition that parallels a zoo the way to achieve this?

By Rabbi Dan Dorsch / Jewish World blogger | Apr 8, 2013 | 11:49 AM | 2

Death did not kill their names: Yad Vashem’s quest to identify Holocaust victims

Sixty years of painstaking research through interviews, pages of testimony, archives, tombstones and dedications on ritual objects by Yad Vashem have yielded the names of 4.2 million victims of the Holocaust.

By Cynthia Wroclawski | Apr 8, 2013 | 11:40 AM | 8

Two new names added to Wiesenthal Center’s Most Wanted Nazi criminals list

Both additions were members of the notorious SS-Death’s Head camp guards; list includes alleged Nazi war criminals living in North America.

By Ofer Aderet | Apr 8, 2013 | 08:29 AM | 9

Jewish World Opinions

Defining Zionism: The belief that Israel belongs to the entire Jewish people

By A.B. Yehoshua | 06:09 AM | 29

Woman vs. Women of the Wall

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 12:29 PM | 9

Action, not just words, needed in battle against exclusion of women

By Shari Eshet | 11:28 PM | 3

Jewish World

Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Jewish group gives tolerance award to Indonesian leader blamed for crackdown

By The Forward | 02:54 AM

Australian MPs pick up torch in fight against global anti-Semitism

By Dan Goldberg | 01:45 AM

Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the wedding ceremony of R

Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem wedding of Hasidic dynasty

By Yair Ettinger | 11:20 PM

Rabbis' Round Table

The Jewish birthday blessing that teaches us to count

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 12:01 PM

Giving Shavuot a public relations makeover

By Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger | 04:51 PM

Why are so many Jews unsuccessful at counting the Omer?

By Rabbi Dan Dorsch / Jewish World blogger | 12:18 PM | 3

The Jewish Thinker

In defense of Jewish pluralism

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 10:13 AM | 2

Shavuot, the forgotten holiday

By Yael Miller / Jewish World blogger | 07:30 AM | 2

When you love your mum but she hates Mother's Day

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 08:07 AM | 2