US President Biden's remarks in Tel Aviv stirred emotions, in part for his 'connection' of the October 7 massacres with scope of Jewish history. Is it a fair analogy?
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A thriving Jewish center for hundreds of years, the city saw its Jews decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators, a history not all Lithuanians are willing to confront
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As Biden's speech underlined, what began on Saturday was not, in all its 'unadulterated evil,' a tactical Hamas attack, but the opening salvo in a strategic effort to destroy the Jewish state

Along with comparisons to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, the claim that it was 'the darkest day in Jewish history since the end of the Holocaust' appears to be accurate

Six of the seven pieces by Egon Schiele will hit auction block next month, after years-long fight by descendants of cabaret dancer Fritz Grunbaum for their return

Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades

Since 2020, a free clinic at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine has treated 69 Holocaust survivors, many of whom are afflicted with dental diseases due to childhood malnourishment

Trudeau admits 'terrible mistake' in recognizing Ukrainian WWII veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who served in unit that fought alongside Nazis

Three museums return pieces to Andy Reichsman, who continued decades-long struggle by late aunt to reclaim works stolen by Nazi-allied regime

New multi-disciplinary volume probes Holocaust massacre images taken on Šķēde Beach, where 2,749 Jewish women, men, and children were murdered by German and Latvian firing squads