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

Alumni Reflection: Jeremy Benhamou, Leo Martin, 2016

In May of 2016 I was extremely fortunate to participate in the Leo Martin March of the Living. This two-week long trip to Poland and Israel not only inspired this essay, it also altered the way I think about everything! This incredible program, which began on May 2nd and ended

The bones of the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ have become a teaching tool in Brazil

For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985,

Exclusive: Facebook post helps posthumously honor Dutch couple for Holocaust heroism

Nadine Wojak tells the incredible story of finding the relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII – Holocaust Nadine Wojakovski tells the incredible story of tracing relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII In 2015 I published a memoir, based on the true story of my

Steven Sotloff, Beheaded Journalist, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors

60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews the parents of Steven Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. Sotloff, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was held captive by members of ISIS/ISIL including Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihadi John), who demanded a $100 million ransom from the