Behind the trapdoors and false walls of a house outside Amsterdam, two Jewish sisters hid dozens of people from the Nazis and kept Jewish music alive while the world burned.
Before Irish footballers bowed their heads through Israel's anthem, Ireland's chief rabbi hid Éamon de Valera from his enemies. That rabbi's grandson is Israel's president today.
A Chinese teenager falls in love with Fiddler on the Roof and converts to Judaism. Acupuncture leads a burnt-out Jewish woman back to Judaism. Coincidence -- or something more?
Israel’s Heritage Ministry’s recent announcement of the discovery of the sunk ship Altalena is bringing to light one of the darkest moments in Israel’s early history.
Desperate to stop the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust, Jewish leaders tried to negotiate with the Nazis. Despite their courage, their efforts were doomed to fail, by Nazi design.
As young teenagers, Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported from their hometowns to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, they were separated from family members before being subjected to forced labor and harrowing conditions.
At Auschwitz, a 29-year-old Hungarian Jew named Erno "Zvi" Spiegel risked his life daily to protect boys from Josef Mengele. His story is finally being told.
While Anne Frank hid, Hannah Senesh grabbed a gun and parachuted into Nazi Europe. Why does the world remember one and ignore the other? A conversation with author Matti Friedman.
My grandfather hid his family in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lvov for 14 months. What kept them human down there is something I'm still trying to understand.
A fearless 27-year-old Jewish lawyer forced Hitler to squirm on the witness stand. Years later, imprisoned in Dachau, Hans Litten’s defiance became a symbol of resistance.
In the early 20th century, Schwester Selma Meir, a German-trained nurse, brought order, compassion, and professional care to Jerusalem, changing the future of medicine in the Land of Israel.
Architectural drawings enabled industrialized murder at Auschwitz and its creator walked free, exposing how professional skill, ethical silence, and bureaucracy can become instruments of genocide.
In the final days of WWII, one last, improbable battle unfolded inside a medieval castle where American soldiers and German defectors fought side by side against SS troops.
Gen. Isidor Borowski was a Jewish adventurer-soldier who fought for Napoleon, helped liberate Venezuela, and rose to become a favored general of the Persian Shah.
In a daring operation on Christmas Eve 1969, Israel spirited five warships out of a NATO port, vanishing into winter storms during a covert intelligence gamble that stunned Europe.
They helped defeat the Nazis with microfilm tucked into gloves, messages woven into yarn, and intelligence smuggled by bicycle, ski, sewing needle, and hair ribbon.
Journey through Europe’s most beautiful synagogues — timeless sanctuaries where art, history, and faith unite. These photographs reveal a heritage of beauty, resilience, and devotion.
Behind Hitler’s propaganda stood Leni Riefenstahl—filmmaker, artist, denier. A new documentary, drawn from her private archives, reveals the truths she never admitted.
The Blood Libel Machine
