Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Rabbi Fred Guttman

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation of the horrendous and unparalleled death camp Auschwitz in 1945. At Auschwitz, some 1,200,000 people were murdered. Most of them were Jews, including some 430,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported in

Noah Klieger, z”l, Keynote Speaker at the UN, Jan 27, 2017

On January 27, 2017, Noah Klieger, z”l, was the Keynote Speaker at the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Read more about Noah HERE.

How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist

Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the

Expert: Anti-Semitism is a global problem

Bar Ilan University will held a conference titled, “The Challenge of Fighting Anti-Semitism.” The conference is in memory of Chaim Herzog, who tore up the UN document claiming “Zionism is racism.” Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud), Opposition Head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) and other MKs will participate in the conference, which

Sixteen violins, recovered from Holocaust, will talk again

When asked what it will feel like to play a different violin in an upcoming concert, Jonathan Kuo prefaces his thoughts with an interesting choice of verbs. “I haven’t met the violin yet,” he says. For professional violinists, their instruments aren’t just objects made of wood and string. They are

STILL NO ARREST AS AMAZON FIRES EMPLOYEE WHO PUT “GREETINGS FROM UNCLE ADOLF” NOTE IN JEWISH CUSTOMER’S PARCEL

Amazon employee was fired after allegedly leaving a note in a package for a Jewish customer that read: “Greetings from Uncle Adolf.” The Amazon employee correctly guessed that the woman, who purchased a toy for her niece, was Jewish based on her last name, the Daily Mail reported on Monday.

Poll: 85% of Jews Worldwide Have Experienced or Witnessed Antisemitism

Eighty-five percent of Jews around the world have witnessed or experienced antisemitism at some point in their lives, a survey by the World Zionist Organization’s International Center for Countering Anti-Semitism found. 50 percent of respondents from Europe and North America said they had either witnessed or experienced antisemitism in the

Nazis, racism, hatred: Why is Google still failing to police its own autocomplete function?

Google, one of the most powerful technology companies in the world, is facing renewed criticism for displaying shockingly offensive auto-complete results in its search engine, including “the KKK is not racist”, “Black Lives Matter is cancer” and “Nazis are cool”. Last December, Google was steeped in controversy after The Guardian

Famed French Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy: Anti-Zionism Is the New Dressing for the Old Passion of Antisemitism

“Anti-Zionism is the new dressing for the old passion of antisemitism,” famed French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy told a New York City gathering on Wednesday. In a conversation at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan moderated by Charlie Rose, Lévy — author of the new book The Genius of Judaism —

New online generation takes up Holocaust denial

A new generation of Holocaust deniers is emerging through a clutch of popular “gateway” conspiracy theories, according to one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject. As Denial, a film about the disgraced historian and notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, hits cinemas later this month, attention is focusing on