New centre at Yad Vashem showcases millions of Holocaust artifacts

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, has inaugurated a new home for the world’s largest collection of Shoah-related materials. Read more

Researcher has sounded alarm for decades about hate in UNRWA camps

Palestinian children in U.N. Relief and Works Agency camps, mere yards from the border with Israel, talk in a video about killing Jews and returning to their land. “The actions of Hamas match the ideology of UNRWA,” the narrator says. Read more

For Israeli war evacuees, time stands still

Did anyone ever tell you that time has no meaning during a war? That’s how it feels in Israel as we enter the third week of the war against Hamas. Read more

IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ band hits 500-show milestone 

Most Israeli bands and performers would be happy to land a few gigs a month, but how many have clocked 500 performances in the past 14 months? Read more

Herzog hosts celebration of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s legacy

Stepping down in 2013 after 22 years as chief rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks did not retire to Israel. Read more

High hopes for new mosaic center to unite mixed Israeli city

A little more than a year ago, Arab rioters smashed the glass façade of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Centre during the violence that engulfed Israel’s mixed Arab-Jewish cities because of the 2021 Gaza War. Read more

Babi Yar at 79 … and its future

Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. Read more

Catholic Church symbolism again becomes an issue near death grounds of Auschwitz

The protest outside the church at Birkenau during last month’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp should not have come as a surprise. Read more

At Jerusalem Film Festival, new year brings new kind of drama

In July 2014 in Jerusalem, sirens over the city at the beginning of the 50-day Gaza war forced the cancellation of the outdoor opening event of the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Read more

How two women work to shift public opinion on Israeli sovereignty…writes Judy Lash Balint

Almost every day, Nadia Matar, 48, steers her battered white SUV along the hilly roads between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion to visit the soldiers stationed at Shdema. Read more

Preserving the memories of Israel’s creation…writes Judy Lash Balint

Elad Peled, 87, has told the story of how he was injured during the battle for Tzfat (Safed) in Israel’s War of Independence many times. Now, for the first time, the retired Israel Defense Forces major general’s account of his days as Palmach commander will be readily accessible through a joint project of Toldot Yisrael (Chronicles of Israel) and Israel’s National Library.
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