(New York Jewish Week) — After stops in London, Tel Aviv and other locales, the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible will be on view in New York City beginning on Sunday. Known as the Codex Sassoon, the book — which was written by a single...

April 27, 1955 — Uzi Is Unveiled During Parade The Uzi submachine gun makes its public debut as an IDF weapon during a Yom HaAtzmaut parade. Named for its inventor, Uziel Gal, the Uzi was first used in the field two months earlier during Operation...

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This content first appeared on ADL.org and is republished here with permission. Holocaust deniers use a range of myths to “prove” the validity of their claims. They share these lies in the texts of pseudo-academic journals, antisemitic...

(JNS) It’s easy for archaeologists to detach themselves from ancient finds, but the discovery of a brass compass from a massacre of 35 Israeli soldiers in 1948 left two researchers feeling like they received a “punch in the stomach.” The Israel...

This content first appeared on ADL.org and is republished here with permission. Trope: Details of the Holocaust Have Been Exaggerated Some so-called Holocaust “revisionists” claim they don’t deny the Holocaust happened,...

This content first appeared on ADL.org and is republished here with permission. The movement to deny that the Nazis murdered approximately six million Jews during World War II — the historical event known as the Holocaust — emerged...

The name “Bermuda” conjures up a variety of images. Tourists think of it as a tropical vacation site. Scientists ponder the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. But for those concerned with the history of the Holocaust, Bermuda is remembered...

An 1888 portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards and her all-female home economics class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 1915 campaign poster that maps out the 20 states providing food assistance for widows and single mothers. A 1940 photo of...

United Hebrew Congregation hosted the 2023 Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance ceremony on April 16. It marked the first in-person gathering since the pre-Covid 2019 Yom HaShoah. During the ceremony, survivors and descendants lit candles in memory of...

April 19, 2023, marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day in 1943, on the eve of Passover, 50,000 people were still imprisoned in the area of the Warsaw ghetto—among them 20-year old Mietek Pachter, 21-year...

Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’ support....