• Canadian team signs player who called Jews ‘devils’

    On his twitter account, Khalif Mitchell also posted a link to a YouTube video calling the Holocaust ‘the greatest lie ever told’ A Canadian football team has signed a player who tweeted anti-Semitic messages even after being fined in 2015 for doing so. The Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football

  • Website launched to inform country’s Holocaust survivors of their rights

    Initiative could benefit the tens of thousands living here in poverty.   A s the world’s last living Holocaust survivors reach the twilight of their lives, frequently alone and impoverished, an Israeli NGO is hoping that a website designed to inform them of their rights to aid and compensation will help

  • Hungary blocks websites that deny the Holocaust

    Court in Budapest orders temporary blocking of 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material. A court in Budapest has ordered the temporary blocking of about 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material, JTA reported on Wednesday. The websites in question sell the Hungarian edition of a book by a Swedish author that

  • Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor donates $1M to US Holocaust museum

    (JTA) — The last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg war crimes trials has donated $1 million to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington D.C. Benjamin Ferencz will donate the sum on an annual renewable basis, up to $10 million, to the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, according to

  • Alums praise March of Living experience by Shayna Chazin

    According to Shayna Chazin, “No one ever regrets going on the March of the Living — they just regret missing it.” Chazin has been heavily involved as a volunteer with the March of the Living – Southern Region — which has a territory including all of Palm Beach and Martin

  • Holocaust Survivor Who Cut Hair at Auschwitz Closes Chicago Barber Shop After 60 Years in Business

    A Holocaust survivor whose task it was to cut the hair of concentration-camp prisoners closed his Chicago barber shop after serving the local community for 60 years, local news site DNAinfo reported. Ben “The Barber” Scheinkopf, 96, posted a sign on the door of his California Avenue establishment, saying that with “great regret” he was retiring, due

  • German lawyers expand Holocaust survivor outreach

    Even if German authorities track down all surviving Nazi operatives and convict them as accessories to the murder of Jews in World War II, such work will not be done, German lawyers involved in such trials told a small gathering in Highland Hills Aug. 24. In fact, said Christoph Rueckel,

  • The Poles Are Friends to Israel, Not Holocaust Deniers

    It was with disquietude and disbelief that I read Ofer Aderet’s report, “Yad Vashem Officials Slam Polish Government: ‘New Bill Is Very Close to Holocaust Denial’” (Haaretz, Aug. 24). It is unfortunate that the complex draft law approved by the Polish Council of Ministers on August 16 — which does

  • Letter to the Editor of the Canadian Jewish News

    We were very disappointed to read Rabbi Dow Marmur’s negative remarks about the March of the Living, and fully agree with the response signed by the 26 Toronto Holocaust survivors who have dedicated their lives to sharing their stories and the lessons of the Shoah. International March of the Living

  • Just remembering is not enough in this climate

    R eremembering is not enough, when people today are rejected because of their ethnicity, gender or belief. This is my view as I sit reflecting on the National Holocaust Centre and Museum’s 20th anniversary and the continuing need for Holocaust education today. I could not have imagined 20 years ago when