Five legendary Jews who changed America

It's no secret that the United States is home to the world's largest Jewish community. As of 2020, there are about 5,5 million representatives of this nation in it. In the United States, Jews have always been warmly received and loyally treated ...

Why Louis Armstrong admired Jews all his life

One of the most famous musicians of the twentieth century, Louis Armstrong was the grandson of slaves brought to America, he was born and spent his childhood in poverty. He wrote about how his early years were brightened up and changed by a poor Jewish family in his memoirs, issued ...

The last of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz died: how was his fate

David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who participated in the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, died at 98 years old, writes the BBC. Dushman, a Jewish Red Army veteran who later became an Olympic fencer, died in Germany on Saturday 5 June. At the age of 21, ...

Scandal and protests: US store sold signs for anti-vaccination Holocaust symbols

A hat store in Nashville, Tennessee, advertised a yellow star patch that read “Not Vaccinated,” similar to the one Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. This caused outrage and protests, writes BBC. The Hatwrks store posted on its Instagram account...

US Navy Chaplain Demands Jews Apologize For Killing Jesus

The agency, which provides administrative services to the US military, posted an Easter sermon on its website that described a New Testament passage on Jews as a demand to "apologize" for the murder of Jesus. Writes about this The Jerusalem Post. The US Department of Defense canceled the chaplain's sermon ...

QAnon Spreads New Conspiracy Theory Targeting Jews and Asians

Extremism experts warn of an alarming shift in the right-wing QAnon movement towards a new conspiracy that combines anti-Chinese and anti-Jewish imagery with fear of vaccines and a global conspiracy to take over the world. Writes about this Yahoo. According to the researcher ...

World Celebrates Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Heartbreaking Stories of Survivors

On January 27, the world celebrates the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - on this day in 1945, Soviet soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated prisoners of the largest Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Auschwitz. More than 1 million people died in this camp alone. “The Holocaust that led ...

9 Jews who survived the Holocaust and became famous

International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, one of the most terrible tragedies of humanity, is approaching. But we would like to remember those who survived the hell in the concentration camps, but in the end were able not only to get back on their feet with dignity, but also to become famous. Their…

'Madonna of War': how a brave nun saved dozens of Jewish children from the Nazis

80 years ago, when the Nazis occupied France, two Jewish girls from Alsace were under mortal threat. But they survived, like dozens of others, thanks to a brave nun from a monastery near Toulouse, writes BBC. Twelve-year-old Helene Bach played in the garden with the youngest ...

'Religious exclusion': congressmen ask Ukraine to let the Hasidim from the USA into the country

For Rabbi Jonathan Ritty, this year would mark his 37th consecutive visit to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which falls on September 18-20, Voice of America writes. The grave where the founder of Bratslav Hasidism, Tsaddik Nachman from Bratslav, who lived...

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