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This photograph shows a sign of Swiss giant banking UBS at a branch in Zurich on March 4, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 11, 2026, 8:34 am
UBS asks US judge to shield it from further investigation into Nazi bank accounts
Former Credit Suisse reached $1.25b settlement in 1999 over WWII-era crimes, is now resistant to handing over 150 documents it says are protected by attorney-client privilege
By Jonathan Stempel
Richard Trank (left), filming in Tel Aviv in December 2019. (Courtesy)
November 25, 2025, 5:57 am
Oscar-winning filmmaker moves to Israel and trains his lens on October 7 survivors
Richard Trank, who produced over a dozen films on Jewish and Israeli themes, feels there is ‘a lot I can contribute’ by settling in the Jewish state after decades in Los Angeles
By Amy Spiro
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
May 6, 2025, 7:30 pm
New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany
Notorious German SS officer and physician of Auschwitz requested to travel from Argentina to West Germany in 1959 using his real name, sources reveal
By Zev Stub
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
March 26, 2025, 10:37 am
Argentina to declassify documents about Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII
Following a promise by president Javier Milei last month, documents including banking and financial transactions will be publicly released
By Zev Stub
From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)
February 24, 2025, 1:50 am
Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele
Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
By Matt Lebovic
Co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor Ari Emanuel speaks onstage during the LACMA Art + Film Gala at LACMA on November 4, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
May 24, 2024, 2:38 pm
Media mogul Ari Emanuel calls to oust Netanyahu, ‘extremist’ ministers
‘Israel needs a wise and just leader,’ Endeavor CEO tells Simon Wiesenthal Center gala, while also urging removal of far-right cabinet members who incite violence in West Bank
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens during the BRICS group of emerging economies three-day summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
November 22, 2023, 12:38 am
South Africa’s shift on Israel: From Mandela-era acceptance to ‘genocide’ allegations
Unprecedented anti-Israel statements by the African nation’s head appear to be part of a broader geopolitical shift, but the country’s Jews report feeling safe and comfortable
By Canaan Lidor
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau join a standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, on September 22, 2023. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)
September 25, 2023, 7:21 pm
Canada’s parliament, Trudeau and Zelensky give inadvertent ovation to Nazi war veteran
Speaker apologizes to Jews worldwide for encouraging parliament to hail Yaroslav Hunka, 98, a volunteer fighter in a Waffen SS unit, as a ‘Ukrainian and Canadian hero’
By Rob Gillies
A showcase with antique dictionaries inside the directors' lounge at the Royal Spanish Academy (the Real Academia Espanola, RAE) in Madrid, 21 January 2004 (JAVIER SORIANO / AFP)
September 8, 2023, 10:30 pm
Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as ‘greedy or usurious’ person
Over 20 Jewish groups from US and Spanish-speaking countries call on Spain’s linguistic authority to drop two antisemitic definitions from its dictionary
By Juan Melamed
A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)
August 2, 2023, 9:56 pm
Tree of Life rabbi says community can ‘begin to heal’ after shooter sentenced
US Jewish groups welcome sentencing for Robert Bowers and remember victims, though most refrain from applauding death penalty
By Luke Tress and JTA
The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem. (Shai Gil, for the MOTJ)
May 2, 2023, 12:07 pm
Tolerance Museum and Jerusalem Municipality turn new page, agree to work together
With court case behind them, mayor meets with museum co-chair Larry Mizel and will soon tour facility; city culture official to work directly with museum
By Sue Surkes
In this file photo taken on April 4, 2023, a sign of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen in Basel, on the eve of the general meeting of shareholders following the takeover by UBS of Credit Suisse hastily arranged by the Swiss government on March 19, 2023, to prevent a financial meltdown. (Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP)
April 25, 2023, 11:44 am
Jewish group blasts Credit Suisse for sacking investigators probing bank’s Nazi links
World Jewish Congress ‘troubled’ by ‘abrupt’ decision to fire Neil Barofsky and Ira Forman, tasked with exploring bank’s alleged servicing of accounts belonging to Nazi officials
By Ash Obel and AP
A person talks on the phone at the Credit Suisse bank headquarters in Zurich on March 20, 2023 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
April 19, 2023, 2:26 pm
Credit Suisse hindered internal probe into Nazi-linked accounts, US senators say
Ombudsman found 99 accounts of senior Nazi officials in Germany and members of Nazi-affiliated groups in Argentina before being ‘inexplicably terminated,’ according to report
By Jamey Keaten
France 24 journalist Dina Abi-Saab reports from Geneva, Switzerland on June 10, 2019. (France 24)
March 15, 2023, 7:30 am
France 24 TV network suspends 4 journalists for alleged anti-Israel vitriol
One of the employees joked about Hitler having a barbecue with Jews, others called Palestinian attackers ‘martyrs’
By Canaan Lidor
Deborah E. Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
December 15, 2022, 4:47 am
‘Appalled’: US, Israel, Jewish groups slam UN official for past antisemitic rhetoric
Biden’s antisemitism envoy, US and Israeli missions to UN and congresswoman among those decrying Palestinian rights investigator after ToI reveals ‘Jewish lobby’ comments from 2014
By Luke Tress
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