Archaeological excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna reveal the intensity of destruction of the synagogue

The excavations on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Society of Lithuanian Archaeology (Kultūros paveldo Išsaugojimo sajkos), the Goodwill Foundation and the Jewish community of Lithuania, currently taking place in Lithuania, have also uncovered two huge concrete basins under the bathhouse and the mikva (Jewish ritual bath) building that ensured that the water would […]

The Hope and Hopelessness of Holocaust Memorial Day

In no year since the Holocaust have the Jewish people felt so hopeless and, in many cases, standing alone. In no year since the Holocaust has Israel been at war with an existential enemy rooted in extremist Islam while observing this solemn day.

Holocaust Remembrance: By the Numbers

January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and was designated as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

How Never Again Failed Us

Never Again is hard to implement if we are not focusing on how it happened in the first place. (Even if it was not the first time.)