Decision to extend contracts by five years comes after elderly tenets protested ministry's decision to terminate agreement with private company that owns assisted living housing units
Leading academics express confusion at Democratic congresswoman’s reading of events between Arabs and Jews in pre-state Israel, though some say reaction to her comments is overblown and politically motivated
Maria Blyshchyk's relatives, who wanted to visit descendants of Holocaust survivor saved by her, were allowed into the country only after inquiries by lawyer and Haaretz
Forty-five Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans were set to be evicted after ministry decided to terminate its contract with the private company who owns assisted living housing units
Governmental lease ends in August, but the Immigrant Absorption Ministry hasn't found alternative housing for the elderly men and women, who say they 'will not agree to leave' ■ Immigration Minister Gallant has ordered the eviction plan halted
Real Madrid, Torino, Bayern Munich, Benfica: Jews were pivotal in the development of European soccer. But then they were kicked into the concentration camps
U.S. Ambassadors to Israel, Germany and Poland accompanied by special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism will also visit Israel after the march
No one knows how it ended up in an Israeli archive, but the freshly translated 1944 diary of teenager Judit Ornstein has drawn comparisons to the Holocaust’s most famous journal. A successful search for surviving family members in America has introduced them to a lively, literary young woman they never knew
At Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial service, President Rivlin warned Israel not to form alliances with racist, anti-Semitic forces in Europe
'I died 70 already years ago when the Germans murdered my whole family not far from here,' says Ed Mosberg who completed the March for the Living accompanied by two physicians
From Italy to Denmark to Albania, a look at those countries which helped rescue victims of the Holocaust
The fearless exploits of Dutch businessman Salomon ‘Sally’ Noach are recounted in a new documentary, ‘Forgotten Soldier,’ in which his daughter tracks down some of the survivors he saved from the Nazis
19 of the top 20 best-sellers in Jewish literature and fiction on Amazon are all Holocaust fiction. Why are these stories in such high demand?
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub was largely known for his efforts to memorialize Holocaust victims
Plus, J-Town Playhouse present Dan Gordon’s ‘Irena’s Vow’ in Jerusalem and Holocaust survivor Betty Kazin recounts her remarkable life story
Konstanty Rokicki, the Polish vice consul in Switzerland during World War II, produced fake passports of South American countries and distributed them to Jews who were about to be deported
Leopold Kozlowski, a symbol of the revival of Jewish culture in Poland, taught a Nazi officer the accordion in exchange for food and played in the woods as a partisan. He died this month at the age of 100
An assignment for a writing class brought Ira Fuchs to a newspaper article about a tunnel from a Nazi killing pit in Vilna — and inspired his new off-Broadway play about the Jewish prisoners who secretly dug it
Iraqi Jews who escaped the Farhud attacks in 1941 argue that the pogrom was encouraged by Nazi propaganda
Nothing about this Berlin building so much as hints at what happened here in 1941. Investigating the fate of its occupants, the author, who now lives in the building, unearthed the tragic story of one Jewish family
Elemer Spiegler was forced into mandatory labor by the Nazi-allied regime in Budapest before being sent to the Mathausen concentration camp
Eva Schloss hopes the students can become advocates of peace and tolerance
This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A Holocaust survivor recalls life in the war
Wristwatch and compass that allegedly helped him escape the Russians in 1945 were part of the collection; Swedish ‘passport’ signed by fellow Righteous Among the Nations, Raoul Wallenberg, was also up for sale
Amid a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in France, a portrait of famed Holocaust survivor Simone Veil was covered with swastikas
Eddie Ford, a Canadian Holocaust survivor, had virtually no family left to attend his funeral. So a local rabbi made a plea on Facebook
Holocaust survivor Judah Samet, who also survived the terror attack at Tree of Life Synagogue, will be joined by a Pittsburgh police officer who was wounded at the scene
Two men – one a diplomat from El Salvador, the other a Romanian-Jewish businessman – hatched a plan that kept many Jews out of Auschwitz, yet their story is only known today thanks to a Central American beauty pageant in the 1970s
Controversial artist Ariel Bronz chained himself with a lock and chains to a steel beam that is part of a memorial sculpture by Igael Tumarkin. He was injured in the process and taken to nearby Ichilov Hospital