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“The World According to Tucker Carlson,” MCC Fest After, Millenáris, Central Europe, Aug. 22, 2023. Credit: Elekes Andor via Wikimedia Commons.
Fighting evil abroad is American; just ask the heroes of World War II
Tucker Carlson’s slur of American IDF volunteers betrays his ignorance.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
July 15, 2025
Boulders bearing ahistorical, revisionist text about the 1941 massacre in Jedwabne are on display next to the official commemorative site in eastern Poland on July 7, 2025. Photo by Kamil Mrozowicz.
Revisionist plaque sparks outrage on site where Poles butchered Jews
Texts blaming Nazis and Jews, not locals, for the 1941 Jedwabne massacre appeared at the site ahead of its 84th anniversary.
Canaan Lidor
July 10, 2025
A tombstone marking the grave of a Jewish person. Credit: bernswaelz/Pixabay.
Remembering my dad, a Holocaust survivor, this Father’s Day
When I was growing up, Dad only spoke of his childhood around his older sisters or unless someone asked him a specific question. I had many.
Jennifer Krebs
June 12, 2025
Six headstones for German Jewish World War I soldiers were changed in French cemeteries from Latin crosses to Stars of David due to the efforts of Operation Benjamin in May 2025. Credit: Anibas Photography/Operation Benjamin.
Six headstones of German WWI soldiers changes from crosses to Stars of David in French cemeteries
“If you had told me two years ago that I would feel this way, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Operation Benjamin board member Liz Steinlauf told JNS.
JNS Staff
May 28, 2025
Gene Simmons of Gene Simmons Band performs at Alcatraz Metal Fest on August 11, 2024 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Photo by Elsie Roymans/Getty Images.
KISS rocker meets 100-year-old veteran who liberated his mom from Nazi camp
"If there weren't brave people like you – I wouldn't be here, and neither would my mother," Gene Simmons told Harold "Hal" Urban, who participated in liberating Mauthausen in May 1945.
Jonathan Duschnitzky
May 27, 2025
Ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2025. Credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Justin Rachal via Wikimedia Commons.
Trump declares May 8 as ‘Victory Day for World War II’
“We celebrate the unmatched might, strength, and power of the American Armed Forces,” a White House statement read.
May 8, 2025
Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers a speech urging the completion of the Gaza hostage deal with Hamas at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO.
Herzog pays tribute to WWII Allied troops on Victory Day
Like former Soviet Union nations, the Jewish state marks Victory Day on May 9.
JNS Staff
May 8, 2025
Japan surrenders to Allied Forces, ending World War II, circa 1945. Credit: U.S. federal government/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
‘Never Again’ means now, says UN ambassador at tribute to World War II victims
Dorothy Shea, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made the declaration relevant by highlighting the uptick in antisemitism in the wake of Oct. 7, 2023.
May 7, 2025
Beth Lane, the director of the 2025 film “Unbroken,” with her mother, Ginger. Credit: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.
Against all odds, seven siblings in Berlin survived the Holocaust
A directorial debut, “Unbroken,” which chronicles a filmmaker’s search of her family’s history, starts streaming this week on Netflix, timed to Yom Hashoah.
Alan Zeitlin
April 21, 2025