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As the number of survivors dwindles, many members of the community have been forced to live out their lives in poverty, often alone.
“Jan. 27 should not be a regular day. Jan. 27 should be a day of reflection, … a day of prayer, … a day of meditation on how to honor the victims, how to improve combating anti-Semitism,” said Dani Dayan.
In advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, B’nai B’rith gathers global leaders, including new German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, to formulate plans to fight Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.
Surveillance video shows the attacker crossing the street on Shabbat and approaching two Jewish men outside a yeshivah dormitory.
The “Forever in Their Name” campaign is slated to launch on Jan. 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On the final day of his four-day state visit, Mickey Levy will deliver the first-ever address in the Bundestag by a Knesset speaker.
Organizers at the Illinois Holocaust Museum chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 for the official rollout of their new cutting-edge virtual-reality Holocaust experience, titled “The Journey Back.”
Millions of Israelis are furious over the government’s caving to the rioting and its alleged plan to recognize these illegal Bedouin encampments situated on state lands, claiming that such capitulation will only lead to further unrest and violence.
“A big impetus for this friction is the fact that there’s been a disparity between the Bedouin’s perception of their property rights and Israel’s view of Bedouin property rights,” said David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Bedouin simply don’t have deeds to the land that they claim to be theirs.”
Hamas spurs Negev Arabs to “rise up against Zionist oppression” after local Bedouin attack security forces and journalists at a KKL tree-planting event ahead of Tu B’Shevat.
Eric Adams also moved the locations from City Hall in Manhattan to Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, N.Y.
They chanted “BBC, where the proof? BBC, tell the truth” in response to an on-air report during Hanukkah about an attack on a bus full of Jewish teens in Central London.