world war ii

'With Many Miracles': Israel Cappell’s miraculous story of survival

Israel Cappell details his remarkable survival in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Discovery of mutilated corpses under Goering's home in Nazi HQ in Poland, prompts investigation

The bodies were found beneath some pipes under the floorboards of Herman Goering's house in the Wolf's Lair, naked, without clothing or jewelry.

Was the wreckage found off Argentina a Nazi submarine?

Independent researchers concluded that the submarine was very likely of Nazi origin, and researchers from the Italian Naval League supported this finding.

'True to My God and Country': Groundbreaking book on US Jews fighting in WWII

It is amazing how Ouzan included so many chaplains who fostered respect for Judaism in this great volume.

By RABBI DR. BARRY DOV SCHWARTZ
03/04/2024

American army experiences in WWII in context of modern antisemitism

Jewish service members often felt additional mental pressure due to their Jewish identity. Prejudice pervasive in 1940s America manifested itself within the military. 

By FRANÇOISE OUZAN
03/04/2024

To understand Hamas, reflect on the Japanese in World War II

Despite the all-too-expected deplorable behavior of the UN, it behooves the Biden administration and indeed the entire Western world that requires American leadership, to remember that April 1, 1945,

By YECHIEL M. LEITER
02/04/2024
 Anthony Hopkins plays Nicky Winston in 'One Life.'

Anthony Hopkins gives a fine performance in James Hawes’s One Life

One Life is a worthwhile movie, one that may lift your mood now, just a few weeks before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Robert F. Kennedy: 'Hamas to blame for Gaza war, any country would act like Israel'

Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?"

By REUTERS
20/03/2024

The real Jewish history of 'Rosie’ Rosenthal in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’

Though Judaism may not have been Rosenthal’s primary motivating factor, the concentration camp scene in the series finale — which Orloff said actually happened — lays bare that the weight of fighting

By JACOB GURVIS/JTA
15/03/2024

Illya Gefter presents ‘The Front,’ works that raise historical questions

The fundamental meaning of art, I believe, is in offering a vision of harmony on the one hand and coping with a tragic absence of harmony in human existence on the other.

By NERIA BARR
05/03/2024
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