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The Holocaust film that is upending the genre

NEW YORK — Given the long and storied history of the Holocaust film genre, it’s unusual for a new movie on the subject to be lauded as innovative. But the […]

70-year-old Hitchcock Holocaust documentary retrieved

NEW YORK — “This was a woman,” the narrator explains, as the camera pans over a figure so emaciated and burnt that it’s barely recognizable as human. It’s one of...

Gutow stepping down from JCPA

NEW YORK — Rabbi Steve Gutow is stepping down after leading the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for 10 years. Gutow, the JCPA president and CEO, will stay in place...

Unity Day to mark the anniversary of abduction of three teens

JERUSALEM — Jewish communities will mark the first anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens by Palestinian terrorists with a Unity Day. The...

Survivors’ children gather at Bergen-Belsen

By Toby Axelrod, JTA HANOVER, Germany —— Seventy years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops, some 100 people personally...

Ambassador to Poland apologizes for FBI comments

The US ambassador to Poland apologized for the FBI director’s comments about Poles being accomplices in the Holocaust. Stephen Mull said Monday, April 20, that FBI...

March in Kansas City marks one year after deadly shooting

KANSAS CITY — Thousands marched in a Kansas City suburb to mark the first anniversary of deadly shootings outside two Jewish institutions. The three-mile Peace Walk...

African refugees for favorable grants

JERUSALEM — Israel and Rwanda are discussing a deal in which the East African nation would take in illegal migrants from the Jewish state in exchange for favorable...

The king of the candy stores

NEW YORK — Walking into Economy Candy on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it’s hard to know where to look first. To the foil-clad chocolate rabbits standing sentinel atop...

Danforth: Wrong in Missouri

ST. LOUIS — Former US Senator John Danforth chastised Missouri state political leaders for using anti-Semitism as a campaign tactic, which he said led to the suicide of...