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Yad Vashem chairman meets Pope Leo XIV

J-Wire Newsdesk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:35:49 +0000

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan met with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican this week to discuss strengthening cooperation on Holocaust remembrance, documentation, and education. The meeting focused on the shared responsibility to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and confront rising antisemitism. Dayan highlighted the value of documentation contained in the Vatican archives for advancing Holocaust […]

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Sir Thomas More

Jeremy Rosen — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:31:20 +0000

I was always interested in history. Having been brought up in England, I have a particular interest in its history. One of the most significant eras in English history was the 16th century. After years of disastrous infighting in the Wars of the Roses, Henry 7th and then Henry 8th began to stabilise English society […]

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Burning questions: what really happened at Taybeh’s church?

TPS-IL — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:55:25 +0000

An independent investigation by The Press Service of Israel has uncovered critical inconsistencies in claims that radical Israelis deliberately set fire to a 1,500-year-old church in the Palestinian village of Taybeh. Contrary to the widely reported accusation, TPS-IL found evidence of firefighting efforts by local Jewish residents and raised serious doubts about the fire’s origin […]

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Pope Francis: a legacy of Jewish outreach and Israel dialogue

Rob Klein — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:10:20 +0000

Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church for more than a decade, died today at the age of 88. His passing was confirmed by Vatican officials early Monday following an extended period of frail health. Revered across the globe for his compassionate leadership and commitment to social justice, Francis will be remembered not […]

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The revival of an ancient calumny

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 05:29:09 +0000

There’s an unmistakable drumbeat to the antisemitism that’s erupted across the West in the wake of the Oct. 7 pogrom. In response to the genocidal Jew-hatred fuelling Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs, an even older form of the oldest hatred has surfaced—Christian hostility to the Jews. The wholly unwarranted Western condemnation of the Israel Defence […]

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Identifying and combating the new antisemitism

Isi Leibler — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:43:27 +0000

How does one effectively fight antisemitism and its newest mutation, anti-Israelism?...asks Isi Leibler.

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