Maja Brand, a Jewish activist from Krakow, was among the 16 people killed when two trains collided in southern Poland. Friends said Brand, who turned 30 on Feb. 22, was active “in all things Jewish” in Krakow. The head-on collision occurred Saturday...
Award-winning Hungarian-Jewish writer Akos Kertesz has confirmed that he has applied for political asylum in Canada. Harassment and threats following the author’s controversial statements about Hungary's role in the Holocaust have led him to seek asylum...
A letter to be read in all Mormon churches warns members to stop all unauthorized posthumous baptisms, including those of Holocaust survivors. The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the highest governing body of the Mormon...
WASHINGTON -- A candidate from Illinois for the U.S. House of Representatives and former member of the Nationalist Socialist Party is arguing that the Holocaust never happened. In an interview Wednesday with a local news site, the Oak Lawn Patch,...
Historian, author and archaeologist Richard Freund will present “The Temple Treasures: Were They Found in a Dead Sea Cave?” at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17 at Bais Abraham Congregation, 6910 Delmar Boulevard. In 2000, Freund organized an expedition...
BERLIN – Veteran Nazi-hunter and left-party member Beate Klarsfeld has jumped into the German political fray, as an alternative candidate for president. Her decision to run comes amid growing criticism of the current sole nominee - Joachim Gauck, former...
By Rafael Medoff, JTA
• Published February 26, 2012
WASHINGTON—The news that a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic recently conducted a posthumous proxy baptism of Anne Frank, the most famous diarist of the Holocaust, undoubtedly will cause some offense in the Jewish community. Evidently the baptizers...
BERLIN -- A German court has set aside a guilty verdict against a Holocaust-denying bishop on a technicality, but the defendant will face justice again, prosecutors say. The Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg on Wednesday threw out the conviction of British...
Anne Frank was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual, at least the third Holocaust victim discovered to have been baptized posthumously this month. The ceremony reportedly took place last weekend in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in...
PARIS -- A Paris court upheld an earlier decision against far-right former presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen for "contesting" the Holocaust. On Thursday a Paris appeals court upheld a 2008 decision and said Le Pen was guilty of " the contestation...
PARIS -- A Paris court upheld an earlier decision condemning extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen for "contesting" the Holocaust. On Thursday a Paris appeals court upheld a 2008 decision, and said Le Pen was guilty of "the contestation of crimes against...
WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel said Mitt Romney should speak up about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' practice of posthumous baptisms. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Wiesel said that Romney, the front-runner...
