4+ hour, 19+ min ago  (189+ words) JNS provides comprehensive Israel and Jewish news coverage, features, and analysis to print and digital publications across the globe. A memorial plaque in Paris honoring Holocaust rescuers was vandalized ahead of the annual commemoration of the 1942 Vél d’Hiv roundup, French…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (156+ words) Saturday marks 101 years since the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, the political manifesto that articulated his antisemitic ideology implemented a few years later by the Nazi Party, said the Jerusalem office of the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (288+ words) Jewish leaders, Polish officials and international representatives gathered Friday in Jedwabne, Poland, to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the wartime massacre of the town’s Jewish community, as far-right activists held nearby demonstrations challenging the established historical record of the atrocity. On…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (581+ words) We live in a time when truth has become a distant echo and more emotionally satisfying, but false narratives dominate. Even as Israel was still gathering human remains, the narrative had already switched to the perceived suffering of Palestinians in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (480+ words) The Israel Defense Forces on Monday held a conference marking 1,000 days of fighting in the War of Redemption, launched in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. As part of the summit, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held an…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (250+ words) The delegation stood in silence beneath the Anne Frank Tree, planted in the garden at United Nation’s Headquarters in New York in 2019. Mission to the United Nations marked Anne Frank’s 97th birthday on Friday, standing together “in silent reflectionâ…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (12+ words) Gedalia Guttentag JNS.org Gedalia Guttentag is deputy editor at Mishpacha magazine....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (786+ words) For as long as he can remember, M.R. Manheim felt an obligation to preserve his family’s wartime story. “My wife said I’ve been writing this book since I was 10 years old,” Manheim told JNS in a recent interview. That childhood memory…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (677+ words) Every May 8, Europe commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of fascism. But in Latvia, a disturbing…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (195+ words) The remains of a World War II airman have been returned to his home state of New York more than 80 years after his death. 2nd Lt. Joseph Leroy (“Roy”) Burke, a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot from Troy, N.Y., had…...