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Anti-Islamic regime, pro-Israel marchers attacked, kicked out of Bologna Pride
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (406+ words) Israeli and anti-Iranian regime participants of Bologna Pride were reportedly violently attacked by the rest of the crowd on Sunday. At least 20, 000 people were estimated to have joined the Rivolta Pride 2026 parade whose slogan this year was "No Pride in…...
Jerusalem of Lithuania: A journey through Vilna
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (679+ words) But to the Jewish traveler, Vilna (Vilnius) speaks in another language altogether. A language more intimate, almost familial " for this city left an immense imprint on Jewish civilization, not merely across the last three centuries of time, but across the…...
Italian Jewish LGBTQ group banned from Pride for refusal to denounce Israel
2+ week, 3+ day ago (475+ words) A Jewish LGBTQ organization was banned from participating in the upcoming Rome Pride Parade, organizers announced on Monday, for failing to follow suit with a condemnation of Israeli actions in Gaza as genocide. "We clearly distinguish the difference between the…...
Outrage after Rome Pride bans Jewish LGBTQ groups
2+ week, 4+ day ago (416+ words) Jewish organizations and antisemitism watchdogs condemned a decision by organizers of the Rome Pride parade to bar Jewish LGBTQ groups from participating unless they explicitly condemned Israel over the war in Gaza, calling the move discriminatory and deeply hypocritical. The…...
Holocaust education at crossroads with survivors dwindling
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (343+ words) Holocaust education stands at a difficult and challenging crossroads. In recent years, and especially since October 7, we have been witnessing a troubling phenomenon of Holocaust distortion and misuse of historical memory to promote contemporary political narratives. These trends can undermine…...
The civilian army: Anat Vidor and the quiet power of WIZO
3+ week, 1+ day ago (230+ words) The ultimate goal of Zionism," says Anat Vidor, is to ensure the Jewish people can live out loud and entirely uncompromised." In Vidor's telling, the sentence is not a slogan but a working principle, one that runs through her family…...
Copenhagen" in Jerusalem revisits Nazi-era meeting that shaped the nuclear age
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1209+ words) Werner Heisenberg was one of Germany's leading theoretical physicists and the person who pioneered quantum mechanics. He also formulated the uncertainty principle, which states that in the world of atoms and particles, one cannot know both a particle's exact position…...
The Wanderers" tells the story of Poland"s Holocaust survivors
4+ week, 2+ day ago (517+ words) Daniela Gerson chronicles her family's not-so-unique journey in her new book, "The Wanderers," a blend of memoir, history, and journalism....
Jerusalem Day: A son's tale of an Ammunition Hill hero
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (34+ words) Alon Wald never met his father, a paratrooper killed at Ammunition Hill during the Six-Day War when Alon was just 10 months old. Today, he runs the memorial site where his father fell....
Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg dies in Germany aged 101
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (370+ words) Albrecht Weinberg, a survivor of multiple Nazi concentration camps, passed away earlier this week, aged 101, Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Weinberg, despite losing much of his family in the Holocaust, returned to live in Germany 14 years ago. Weinberg, who was…...