This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

The much longer exile of Greece ended through the merit of Jacob. But the last and current exile has lasted nearly 2,000 ...

Prof. Alexander Kulisher, prominent Jewish authority on constitutional law, died on February 13, in the concentration camp at Noe, France, it was revealed here today. He was 52 years old.

The inscription on the monument reads: “To the Tsar - liberator”. Alexander II is known by the same title in Russia. His nickname Tsar Liberator is not because he liberated Bulgaria from Turkish ...

The annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is in full swing ... audiences at this year’s festival include a slate of World War II-era documentaries and narrative features, some of which touch ...

Among those who sought a roof here were the victims of the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s, and later the Eastern Jewish refugees. The latter is an intriguing case. In March 1881, the ...

Tokyo - Japan’s Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) said on Feb 23.

Tsar Nicholas II lost the trust of all layers of Russian society ... It was here that he became acquainted with Marxist philosophy. His older brother Alexander was sentenced to death for participating ...

During the occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany in World War II, Jews were persecuted, systematically killed, and sent to concentration camps via the Hungarian State Railways. In 2014, Hungary was ...

Synopsis: We noted last week that in this situation, although one does not have his tefillin on, he should nevertheless recite the first verse of Shema and “Baruch Shem k’vod” with the ...

First of all, I would like to ask you to convey my very best wishes to Alexander Trufanov ... Unfortunately, the first years after perestroika were hard for the Jewish community here. We felt ...

Cambodian lawmakers unanimously passed a revised law on Tuesday that toughens penalties for anyone who denies atrocities, including genocide, by the former Khmer Rouge regime. According to the ...