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Florida October 7, 2020

Florida principal fired after Holocaust comments that ignited outrage rehired

The Palm Beach County School Board narrowly voted 4-3 Wednesday to rehire a principal who ignited a nationwide controversy last year when told a parent that he "can't say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event" and "not everyone believes the Holocaust happened."

Coronavirus September 17, 2020

Holocaust survivor beats coronavirus after 81 days on ventilator

The 80-year-old is thrilled to be home in time to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with his family.

Anti-Semitism August 30, 2020

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien: Trump fighting anti-Semitism, here and abroad

Violent anti-Semitic attacks have increased 18 percent globally since 2018, the largest increase since 2014.

Israel August 18, 2020

Israel Air Force jets enter German airspace for the first time ever: ‘I salute you’

Israeli air force jets participated in several exercises over Germany on Tuesday – including flying over the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau – marking the first time Israeli jets had entered German airspace.

Hate Crime July 30, 2020

Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to take down 'anti-Semitic' denial posts, classify them as hate speech

Holocaust survivors launched an online campaign Wednesday to implore Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to classify posts that deny the genocide of six million European Jews carried out by the Nazi regime during World War II as hate speech and be taken down from the social media platform.

Holocaust July 23, 2020

German court convicts 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard

A 93-year-old former Nazi guard at the Stutthof concentration camp was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder by a German court Thursday. 

HEALTH July 16, 2020

Holocaust survivors reflect on coronavirus isolation

While months of coronavirus-induced lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and isolation have proven challenging diversions from the status quo for almost everyone – perhaps there is no group more beleaguered by the struggle than those who survived the Holocaust.

NFL July 9, 2020

Patriots' Julian Edelman offers to take DeSean Jackson to Holocaust Museum following anti-Semitic posts

New England Patriots star Julian Edelman addressed DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic social media posts on Thursday and offered to take the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver to the Holocaust museum.

OPINION June 21, 2020

Rabbi Avi Shafran: My father, a Holocaust refugee, taught me lessons about hatred still sadly true today

All of us must continue to work for the goal my father came to America to achieve and that Dr. Martin Luther King dreamt of – a time when hatreds that divide us will at long last became part of our past and not our present or future.

World War Two June 2, 2020

Austria approves plan to turn Hitler's birthplace into a police station

The Austrian building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 will finally be turned into a police station after a years-long back-and-forth over the ownership and future use of the building.

World War Two March 31, 2020

Family haunted by secret legacy of notorious Nazi Horst Pilarzik: 'By hiding him, they carried his guilt'

Christiane Falge, born in 1970, never met Horst Burkhart who died five years before her birth, but the image of this playboy relative – her father’s uncle – who drove a sports car and wore expensive clothes is engraved in her mind.