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Year in review: World News in 2018

Diaspora Jews faced an increase in antisemitism in 2018 - and in October it led to the worst attack on Jews in US history

By Michael Daventry

2 min read

Year in review: World News in 2018

Year in review: Politics in 2018

Year in review: Politics in 2018

Lee Harpin looks back on a year of fear, fury and frustration

8 min read

Did the Jews of Germany pray for Hitler?

Did the Jews of Germany pray for Hitler?

A Limmud session asks whether Jews recited a prayer for the welfare of the state in Nazi Germany, a regime utterly hostile towards them

By Daniel Sugarman

4 min read

Tear down this wall, says West Bank settlement mayor

Tear down this wall, says West Bank settlement mayor

Odedi Revivi says fences like the one winding around the Palestinian territories do not provide a sense of security

By Jenni Frazer

2 min read

‘Moses would have been on Instagram’

Semyon Dovzhik discovered how one rabbi believes Moses himself would have been on Instagram

By Semyon Dovzhik

3 min read

Yivo, the Euro-Jewish history institute, opens UK branch

World-famous archive hopes to inspire British Jews to remember their past

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

At Auschwitz, the JC sees extreme anguish and then reassuring comfort

The JC's Lee Harpin accompanied student leaders and university vice-chancellors on a moving trip to the camp

5 min read

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Kindertransport survivor tells Prince Charles story of translating Hitler's will

Herman Rothman was among 70 survivors who met the prince to commemorate the initiative that saved their lives

By Daniel Sugarman

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The big Kindertransport myth

The Kindertransport was not a British government scheme - the state restricted rather then aided the entry of child refugees, says historian Tony Kushner

By Tony Kushner

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Richard Nixon, America’s previous dogmatic leader

It is 50 years since Richard Nixon, who career was already dogged with antisemitism allegations, became President of the United States

By Robert Philpot

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Richard Nixon, America’s previous dogmatic leader

The First World War was pivotal for British Jews

When war began, the JC exhorted: ‘England’s been all it can to Jews; we will be all we can to England’

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The First World War was pivotal for British Jews

How the JC stopped the presses to report Kristallnacht

Our coverage reflected shock, horror and a warning about what could follow

By Daniel Sugarman

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How the JC stopped the presses to report Kristallnacht

'There was a cart for the dead, a cart for the living'

Morris Buznic volunteered to fight for the British Army when a Jewish battalion was formed in 1917. This is his story.

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'There was a cart for the dead, a cart for the living'

The first step on the road to Auschwitz

The true meaning of the Night of Broken Glass only became clear to the outside world many years later

By Colin Shindler

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The first step on the road to Auschwitz

How defeat solidified German antisemitism

Almost 100,000 Jews wore the German military uniform in the First World War, only to face a horrific fate by the Second

3 min read

How defeat solidified German antisemitism

Kurz on Kristallnacht: 'We looked away for too long'

Austria’s youthful leader tells the JC about his country’s responsibility for the events of 1938 and how he wants to combat the Jew hate that still taints his homeland

4 min read

Kurz on Kristallnacht: 'We looked away for too long'

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