Jewish History
Touro Synagogue Artifacts Dispute to Continue After Mediation Fails
JNS.org - Talks between the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, and a New York City synagogue that claims ownership over the Touro...
The Wedding That Dented the Iron Curtain
In the history of the Soviet Jewry movement, the most spectacular - and possibly most pivotal - episode was a plot to hijack a plane in 1970. A group of young Jews, desperate to escape...
Italian ‘Hitler’ Wine Sparks Outrage and Condemnation
An Italian winery selling a line of Nazi and fascist branded wines has outraged both tourists and Jewish human rights organizations. Under the label known as The Historical Line, the winemaker Vini Lunardelli's series celebrates...
EU Settlement Policy Legitimises Mass Dispossession
Cairo's Tahrir Square is once more in the news: revolution and counter-revolution, protest and put-down. But some issues never capture the headlines: for instance, did you know that at least 13 villas and public buildings...
Ancient Jewish Pottery Village Discovered in Galilee
JNS.org - A religion professor from Alabama-based Samford University has discovered an ancient Galilean...
German Resistance Group, ‘The White Rose,’ Remembered 70 Years Later
JNS.org - Among the various events in Holocaust history marking their 70th anniversary this year—including...
Jewish History of Budapest: A Day Trip to a Golden Age
JNS.org - Budapest is the 25th most-visited city in the world, and it's easy to understand...
Hannah Arendt ‘Banality of Evil’ Theory on Eichmann Revisited On Screen
JNS.org - Fifty years after Hannah Arendt came out with her controversial book, "Eichmann...
For Germany and Israel, a Textbook Case
JNS.org - Almost 70 years after the Holocaust and 50 years after Germany and Israel...
Touro Synagogue Artifacts Dispute to Continue After Mediation Fails
JNS.org - Talks between the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, and a New York City synagogue that claims ownership over the Touro Synagogue...
The Wedding That Dented the Iron Curtain
In the history of the Soviet Jewry movement, the most spectacular - and possibly most pivotal - episode was a plot to hijack a plane...
Italian ‘Hitler’ Wine Sparks Outrage and Condemnation
An Italian winery selling a line of Nazi and fascist branded wines has outraged both tourists and Jewish human rights organizations. Under the label known...
EU Settlement Policy Legitimises Mass Dispossession
Cairo's Tahrir Square is once more in the news: revolution and counter-revolution, protest and put-down. But some issues never capture the headlines: for instance, did...
Ancient Jewish Pottery Village Discovered in Galilee
JNS.org - A religion professor from Alabama-based Samford University has discovered an ancient Galilean Jewish village five miles near Nazareth in a recent archeological...
German Resistance Group, ‘The White Rose,’ Remembered 70 Years Later
JNS.org - Among the various events in Holocaust history marking their 70th anniversary this year—including the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Nazis' failed assault on Stalingrad,...
Jewish History of Budapest: A Day Trip to a Golden Age
JNS.org - Budapest is the 25th most-visited city in the world, and it's easy to understand why, with its amazing architecture, its enormous World Heritage Site,...
Hannah Arendt ‘Banality of Evil’ Theory on Eichmann Revisited On Screen
JNS.org - Fifty years after Hannah Arendt came out with her controversial book, "Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," a new...
For Germany and Israel, a Textbook Case
JNS.org - Almost 70 years after the Holocaust and 50 years after Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations, a textbook commission is shedding light on...
Bidding for Schindler’s Actual List Starts at $3 Million on eBay
JNS.org - The original physical list compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved 801 Jews from being transferred to the Auschwitz death camp...
UK Clergyman Calls on Church to Repent for Past Anti-Semitism
JNS.0rg - An Anglican clergyman spoke on the church's history of anti-Semitism and called on the institution to repent at the annual UK conference...
The Man Who Told FDR About the Holocaust
JNS.0rg - Seventy years ago this month, on July 28, an eyewitness to the Nazi atrocities against Europe's Jews brought the horrifying news directly to...
Israel PM Netanyahu Stresses ‘Unity’ Ahead of 9th of Av; Meteorologist Braces for Traditional Choppy Seas
The "Three Weeks" of traditional Jewish mourning to commemorate the destruction of the historic First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, from 17th Tammuz to 9th...
More ‘Forest Swastikas’ Discovered as Mystery of Origins Persist (PHOTO)
New technologies enabling perspectives hitherto unobtainable, have allowed for the discovery of more swastika formations in European forests Der Spiegel reports. With the help of Google...