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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 2, 2019

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Jewish youth from all over the world visit the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland a day before the March of the Living on May 1, 2019 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Friedman: 'Human life must be defended from hateful regimes'

‘Jews once again unsafe,’ Jewish Agency’s Herzog warns at March of the Living

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Over 10,000 march at Auschwitz to commemorate Holocaust victims, including youth, survivors and political leaders from 41 countries

Former prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp and plaintiff Hedy Bohm arrives for the trial of former German SS officer Oskar Groening at a courtroom in Lueneburg, northern Germany, Wednesday July 1, 2015 (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)

History is repeating itself, Holocaust survivors warn before March of the Living

By Michael Bachner

President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Joey Logano to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump decries rise in anti-Semitism, in proclamation for Jewish Heritage Month

By JTA

Israel comes to standstill in somber remembrance of Holocaust victims

Sirens sound at 10 a.m., followed by wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem, March of the Living in Poland

Members of Israel's LGBT community mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Tel Aviv's Meir Park on May 1, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel remembers Holocaust amid surging anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President Reuven Rivlin lays a wreath in honor of Holocaust victims at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 2, 2019 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Israel media reviewAfter Auschwitz, memory is barbaric: 8 things to know for May 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs, June 1942. (Bundesarchiv bild)

Anatomy of fake newsPost WWII, Soviets provided initial grist for the rumor mill

‘Hitler lived’: Scholar explores the conspiracies that just won’t die

By Robert Philpot

Delving into UK and US intel files, a British historian takes aim at myriad of nonsensical stories that history’s greatest villain managed to escape and live out his life in peace

‘We won’t die as slaves’: Early account of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising emerges

Holocaust survivor: Israel’s acting FM is a ‘stupid idiot’ for denigrating Poles

By Michael Bachner

Holocaust survivor braves cancer to march at Auschwitz, maybe for the last time

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Eva Schloss, center, listens to Charlene Metoyer, a board member of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District during a news conference Thursday, March 7, 2019, in Newport Beach, California. Schloss has met with Southern California high school students who were photographed giving Nazi salutes around a swastika formed by drinking cups at a party. Schloss says the students apologized for their behavior and indicated they didn't realize what it really meant. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Yom HaShoah

Fearing for youth, three Auschwitz survivors say they won’t ever stop testifying

By Nadine Wojakovski

The Mauthausen prisoner band playing as inmates are taken to their death, 1942. (Courtesy Claims Conference)

Most Austrians don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey finds

By Yaakov Schwartz

A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day shows ‘appalling lack of knowledge’ about the genocide even while Austrians overestimate their country’s role in saving Jews

Austria far-right leader panned for use of ‘population replacement’ term

By AFP

Effigy of late Polish Jewish communist hung on gallows at former Lodz Ghetto

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Far-right Polish lawmakers float bill limiting Holocaust restitution

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1, 2019 (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Analysis

With Shoah speech attacking Iran and NY Times, PM displays post-election resolve

Three weeks after he won new term, prime minister’s blistering Holocaust memorial address underlines his personal conviction that he is uniquely capable of leading Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1, 2019 (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

In Holocaust memorial address, PM denounces ‘systematic vilification’ of Israel

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times' international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged "included anti-Semitic tropes." (Courtesy)

New York Times to discipline editor who okayed anti-Semitic cartoon

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during the official ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, May 1, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Rivlin at Yad Vashem warns realpolitik cannot justify allying with far-right

President accuses European leadership on right and left of becoming permeated with anti-Semitism, denounces violence in US

Transportation Minister Israel Katz during a test run of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Minister: Railway network is Israel’s answer to Nazi trains

Muslim World League Secretary General, Mohammad Al-Issa speaks on April 6, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Senior Islamic leader to visit Auschwitz in January

Those poor, frail, old, Nazi murderers

Old age should not protect individuals who committed heinous crimes — they are as guilty today as they were then

The Polish Holocaust hero you’ve never heard of

Konstanty Rokicki and fellow diplomats in Berne forged thousands of passports to save Jewish lives. He died in obscurity, until now

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Two deaths connected in time

My aunt Ita had no funeral, no gravestone. Her death stands in stark contrast to that of my daughter, who was her namesake

Rochelle Kipnis

Saul Gerszberg: A survivor’s testimony

’I jumped out of the line and started to run. About six or seven Germans started shooting after me’

Why does Holocaust Remembrance Day ignore Middle Eastern Jews?

The Nazi onslaught led directly to the Farhud massacre in Iraq and a untold Jewish deaths in Tunisia and elsewhere

Donald Trump desperately needs a White House Jewish liaison

The President is getting the Jewish American perspective through a largely Orthodox lens, rather than the full spectrum

Illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Hebrew University researchers create embryo stem cells from skin cells

By Shoshanna Solomon

Discovery may pave the way to creating entire human embryos out of human skin cells, without sperm or eggs, says head of study

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Knesset on May 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin issues call for unity at closing ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day

‘No more right and left in the memory of the Holocaust… rather one people that remembers and pains together,’ president says in wake of divisive Knesset elections

6:17 pm

Rivlin issues call for unity at closing ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day
5:46 pm

Judge: Man can recover money from neo-Nazi website founder
5:15 pm

Colorado senator, who is son of Holocaust survivor, launches presidential bid

Abdol Hossein Sardari, the 'Iranian Schindler' (photo credit: Fariborz Mokhtari)

Reverse racism?

Unrecognized ‘Iranian Schindler’ said to have saved countless Paris Jews in WWII

By Rich Tenorio

The whites, grays and blacks that dominate Shulamit Kopf's collection, along with embedded pieces of copied letter from her mother's trove of saved correspondence (Courtesy Vadim Lidin)

Piece by piece, a survivor’s daughter finds a trove of letters inspires art

By Jessica Steinberg

Jewish UK Labour member Izzy Lenga at a conference in Krakow, Poland on May 1, 2019 (Yossi Zeliger)

Young Jewish UK Labour leader: ‘Extremely hard’ to back party in elections

By Michael Bachner

‘Anti-Semitism is extremely widespread, it exists kind of everywhere,’ says Izzy Lenga about her own party, at special conference ahead of March of the Living in Poland

In this photo from April 8, 2019, Britain's Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson (L) and Britain's International Development Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt arrive iat Downing Street in central London. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

UK’s PM May fires defense minister over Huawei leak

By AFP

A still from the new historical drama film 'A Rose in Winter.' (Courtesy Joshua Sinclair)

Controversial canonized nun Edith Stein becomes tragic Queen Esther in new film

By Rich Tenorio

More Headlines

Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on March 25, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Two rockets fired into Israel from Gaza after IAF strikes Hamas targets

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

Yehudit Schindler, a Holocaust survivor, is rescued from a burning building in central Israel on May 2, 2019 (screen capture: Kan)

Holocaust survivor rescued from fire on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jason Greenblatt attends the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall in New York, March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

US envoy slams rabbis for ‘vile’ diatribes supporting racism, Hitler’s worldview

Moving artifacts from the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem into the new exhibition at the Louvre, which opens May 2, 2019 (Courtesy Bible Lands Museum PR)

Hittiting it offLouvre features artifacts from Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped, March 26, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Jussie Smollett will not return to ‘Empire’ for next season

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with incoming IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2019. (Flash90)

PM said to reconsider nomination of IDF flack outed as former police agent

By Judah Ari Gross

About 60 demonstrators gather outside the White House to protest the anti-Muslim policy proposals of President-elect Donald Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jewish Americans are least Islamophobic faith group, survey finds

By JTA

An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote during Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, in Daliyat al-Carmel in northern Israel. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

New research claims fewer than half of Arab Israelis voted on April 9

Sens. Mitt Romney, left, and Chris Murphy at the Capitol discuss their recent tour of the Middle East, April 30, 2019. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Mitt Romney: Two-state solution is all there is

Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich poses for a photo with her family ahead of the swearing-in of the 21st Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Blue and White accuses Likud of trying to lure away its MKs

By Alexander Fulbright

Adam Levin on Jeopardy (YouTube screenshot)

People of the clueJewish Brandeis official sets new Jeopardy record, by losing

Palestinians and Israelis attend a shared memorial ceremony commemorating the fallen on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2017, as Israel marks its annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Defense Ministry denies entry to Palestinians for joint Memorial Day ceremony

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