Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Israel Relief Campaign

Sunday, May 5, 2013
Iyyar 25, 5773
9:46 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Mark Schulte

February 24, 2013
1:12 am

The Oscar-nominated documentary "Liberators" falsely claimed a battalion of African-American soldiers had helped to free the Buchenwald concentration camp. (US Army, US Defense Visual Information Center, Image #HD-SN-99-02764, Wikimedia Commons)

Ceremony marks 20 years since Oscar-nominated sham

As Hollywood gathers for its glitziest moment, it’s worth recalling the Academy’s embrace of a Holocaust documentary exposed as a lie

By Mark Schulte

December 9, 2012
11:42 pm

Jewish graduates of New York City public schools have won Nobel Prizes in numbers that far exceed their tiny proportion of the overall population. (Per Thrana/MFA Norway via CC BY/Utenriksdep/Flickr.com)

New York Jews won’t stop winning Nobel Prizes

With two more accepting awards on Monday, Jews educated in the Big Apple are vastly overrepresented among winners of the world’s most prestigious honor

By Mark Schulte