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Coronavirus has sparked rise in anti-Semitism with Jews blamed for the spread of Covid-19 Findings in report by Tel Aviv University show 18% spike in attacks against Jews Report warns that pandemic has threatened to ‘amp up’ incitement even more Right-wing politicians, ultra-conservative pastors, anti-Zionists and Iranian state blamed Learn more about how to help … Read more
An Idaho Republican lawmaker has said stay-at-home orders are ‘no different’ to sending Jews to concentration camps. State representative Heather Scott also compared GOP Governor Brad Little to Adolf Hitler after he extended the statewide lockdowns until the end of April. Speaking to Houston-based podcast host Jess Fields in the interview posted online Thursday Scott said: … Read more
The annual Purim celebration brought large numbers of Jews together in the final days before lockdown – as new figures show the Jewish community has been hit six times harder than the general population. The festival, dating back 2,500 years, was unfortunately timed this year – taking place on March 9 and March 10, shortly … Read more
Historians will today begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope, hoping to discover why Pius XII stayed silent during the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives to begin poring over millions of letters and documents the Vatican kept … Read more
Racist yob who called family with young child ‘dirty Jews’ before kicking café table at them in busy shopping street found guilty of hate crime Adam Cassidy launched the sickening attack on a young father and his family The 20-year-old did so as they had a coffee in St Albans, Hertfordshire last year He was … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more
The Vatican says archives on the wartime pontificate of Pius XII will prove the Pope was committed to saving Jews during the Holocaust as it prepares to release the documents. The documents spanning the 1939 to 1958 pontificate would be open to researchers from March 2, Holy See officials say, amid accusations the wartime Pope … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane Van Iperen (Seven Dials £18.99, 320 pp) When Dutch author and journalist Roxane van Iperen and her husband first glimpsed The High Nest, they fell instantly in love with it. A romantic, shuttered house tucked away in the woods 30 miles from Amsterdam, with friendly … Read more