The closure leaves more than 14,000 Iranian religious minorities, including hundreds of Jews, stranded after approval for U.S ...

Head of immigrant aid group decries move for 'leaving thousands of families in danger,' says it will fight to ensure US ...

Nazi Germany’s persecution of so-called non-Aryans in the 1930s pushed Jews, first in Germany and then in the countries that Germany seized, to seek refuge elsewhere. Many refugees hoped to find ...

(JTA) — Since the end of World War II, Vienna has functioned as an Ellis Island for Jewish refugees from Europe and the Middle East, a place where survivors, dissidents and religious minorities ...

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans. Gens, ...

“You are declaring the incapacity of America to Americanize.” So said Rabbi Stephen S. Wise before the House immigration committee in January 1924. Wise, whose family immigrated to the United States ...

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the ...

New book 'Partisan Song' packs an action-filled punch as it tells the story of Moshe Gildenman, a nearly-forgotten Jewish guerrilla warfare leader against the Nazis in Ukraine The post In WWII, ...

HIAS said the move has left more than 14,000 Iranian religious minorities - including hundreds of Jews and thousands of Baha’i, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Sabean Mandaeans - stranded in Iran.

Diane Warren, the Jewish songwriter and erstwhile Oscar nominee, was once again nominated — for the 17th time — in the category of best original song. This time, Warren’s nomination came from writing ...

Like the playwright, I grew up knowing nothing about my family’s connection to the Holocaust.