By: Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein It’s a well-known cliche that Jerusalem is “holy to the three main religions” – and in truth, it is not surprising. After all, the city was first holy to the Jews – and so it was inevitable that the rest of the world would ultimately jump on the bandwagon. [...]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor The “Bergson Boys” have finally come home. With an international conference at Yad Vashem, a reinterment ceremony in Israel, and the publication of a new book, the controversial Holocaust rescue activists last week took a major step forward in gaining the public recognition they were long denied. Led by Hillel [...]

The Quality Of Mercy Susan de la Fuente              What was the moral motivation of gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust? During a recent conference at Yad Vashem, Prof. Wolfgang Bialas of the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden, Germany presented some research findings on the mindset of non-Jewish Berliners who sheltered Jews and helped [...]

By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter How did so many Nazis and Nazi collaborators manage to escape Europe after World War II? Who helped them flee and why? What routes did they take on their way to freedom? These and other questions are answered in painstaking detail in a new book, Nazis on the [...]

(Israelnationalnews.com) First hand accounts of Exodus 1947 Haganah Ship participants, and departed captain Ike Aharonovich’s friend and historian. Prof. Meir Shwartz smuggled aboard a British ship deporting the 4500 Exodus refugees and infused them with spirit, hope, and organization. Thus they resisted British efforts to break the message of the mission that Jews should be [...]

By Juan Forero CARMEL, Argentina — Through the years, they’ve seen Jewish schools and synagogues close and said tearful goodbyes to the young who migrated to cosmopolitan Buenos Aires. But in hamlets with names like Sajaroff and Sonnenfeld, a tight-knit community of Jewish elders, some in their late 80s, fights to hold back time. On [...]

by Gavriel Queenann (Israelnationalnews.com) The Yesha Council representing the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria has produced a short video making Israel’s case for keeping the Jewish nation’s ‘disputed’ ancestral heartland. The video, just six minutes long, is nevertheless packed with clear, concise information on the history and legal realities pertaining to Israel’s presence in [...]

By: Jerold S. Auerbach Why should anyone remember a notorious pariah ship from Israel’s war for independence? If for no other reason (and there are many), because it is likely to resurface from the depths of memory should Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, if and when they ever begin, focus on Jewish settlements. The prospect of expelling thousands [...]

By: Special to The Jewish Press Newly uncovered documents indicate that U.S. diplomat James G. McDonald repeatedly challenged President Roosevelt on his response to the Holocaust in 1943-1944, contradicting earlier depictions of McDonald as a defender of the president’s Jewish refugee policies. The documents were found in McDonald’s papers at Columbia University. They are the [...]

By: Jerold S. Auerbach Why should anyone remember a notorious pariah ship from Israel’s war for independence? If for no other reason (and there are many), because it is likely to resurface from the depths of memory should Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, if and when they ever begin, focus on Jewish settlements. The prospect of expelling thousands [...]