More than 500 community members at the Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 23 were encouraged to listen, remember and share the stories of Holocaust survivors. The evening’s theme, “Then and ...

Eva Vavrecka contemplating the horrific living conditions that her mother and grandparents endured in the forest to survive World War II. (Bruce Konviser) TRSICE, Czech Republic (JTA) — Nearly 70 ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 6:09 p.m. Rome ...

In honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Holocaust Museum LA staged a stirring ceremony with survivors, city officials and religious leaders at Pan Pacific Park,on April 27.

White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel today at 6:09 p.m. Rome time, signaling the College of Cardinals has chosen a new pope. Of the 133 cardinals sequestered in the Vatican ...

As Israel commemorated Yom HaShoah last month to remember the six million Jews murdered 80 years ago, and as the Allies mark the formal end of the war in Europe this week, the number of people ...

“These days that follow one another—Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, Yom HaAtzmaut—I look upon them as a descendant of Holocaust victims,” says Rabbi Hier. “And I say, let us not make the ...