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4 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
Holocaust survivor Rena Quint shared her story, knowing that the opportunity to hear directly from those who survived the Holocaust is approaching its end.
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4 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
A drone accompanying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's convoy may have been the reason for his late appearance at the official ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem on Wednesday evening. Those close to the Prime Minister claimed that the delay was due to a "security issue." In any case, the Prime Minister and his wife entered the ceremony late, after President Isaac Herzog and the Speaker of the Knesset had arrived and sat down.
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4 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
A world without Holocaust survivors is terrifying, but inevitable - yet it would not be the end of the story or memory, just the end of their responsibility.
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4 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
Israel marked 80 years since the World War II genocide of the Jewish people on Wednesday night, with the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day. A siren marking the six million victims of the Holocaust is set to sound on Thursday morning, but on Wednesday night an official ceremony was held at Yad Vashem. With the year's theme, Out of the Depth: The Anguish of Liberation, the ceremony was set to see remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com
These attacks are indiscriminate, targeting individuals, organizations, businesses, and even entire nations.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com | Alan Rosenbaum
At the age of 95, author Amnon Kabatchnik has lost none of his enthusiasm and zest for life that has accompanied him through his storied career in the United States as an acclaimed director of dramas, comedies, thrillers, and musicals, and in his current avocation writing books about the history of murder and mystery plays. Since his childhood in Tel Aviv, Kabatchnik, who today lives in the Los Angeles area, has harbored a lifelong affinity for dramas, mysteries, and suspense novels.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
BREAKING NEWS
Anti-Israel activists re-established a protest encampment on the grounds of Yale University on Tuesday, according to social media announcements by Yale Students for Justice in Palestine, in protest of a planned visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com | Greer Fay Cashman
Australian Ambassador Ralph King will have to get up extra early this coming Friday morning for the annual Anzac Day ceremony, which commemorates the dawn landing in Gallipoli on the Turkish coast on April 25, 1915, by members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in what was the first major military action fought by the Anzacs in the First World War. Of the 70,000 soldiers from the Allied armies, 20,000 were Anzacs.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com | Greer Fay Cashman
If there is one particular thing for which Herzog is well known, it’s the introduction of members of his family into many of his conversations with both local and foreign dignitaries.
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5 days ago | 
jpost.com | Michael Starr
Holocaust memorial cobblestones in Brussels were found defaced on Tuesday morning with graffiti mentioning Gaza, according to the Coordinating Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations (CCOJB). According to photographs published by CCOJB, the Stolpersteines, memorial stones found throughout Europe at former residencies of Holocaust victims, had white graffiti spelling out "Gaza" and with signals equating the war against Hamas to the World War II genocide.