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Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing, next to Cardinal Mario Grech (L) and Bishop Luis Marin de San Martin (R) after participating in the Synod Teams and Participatory Bodies in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on October 24, 2025. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
October 24, 2025, 11:01 pm
Pope beatifies 11 ‘martyr’ priests killed by Nazi Germany, Communist Czechoslovakia
Proclamation by Leo XIV honors 9 Polish Salesian priests killed at Dachau and Auschwitz during WWII, diocesan pair executed in sham 1951 trial
By AFP
File: Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on October 14, 1973. (AFP)
July 12, 2023, 3:06 pm
Milan Kundera, exiled Czech author and dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
Fiction writer’s satirical take on one-party state got his works banned in former Czechoslovakia
By Agencies
Zalman Unreich (On) teaching wrestling in Palestine, 1930s. Photo appeared on collecting cards and in book titled, 'Mishmar VeSport' (https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002015431/NLI)
February 13, 2021, 9:10 am
Wrestler, rescuer, diplomat, spy: Grandson unmasks his heroic Israeli patriarch
‘The Undercover Wrestler’ reveals an unknown story of diplomat Zalman On, who used his brawn and brains to save European Jews — and befriended Frank Sinatra
By Renee Ghert-Zand
January 6, 1932 cover of The Sketch featuring (Clockwise from top left) Unity, Jessica, Diana and Nancy Mitford (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 16, 2021, 10:50 am
Downton Abbey author’s new mystery stars real-life Hitler-loving Mitford sisters
Jessica Fellowes sets whodunnits in 1930s, with series’ latest two books highlighting the unrepentantly fascist Lady Diana Mosley and troubled Hitler hanger-on Unity Mitford
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Pop-philosopher Slavoj Zizek. (Simon Plestenjak/Flickr)
June 20, 2020, 4:25 am
Celeb philosopher: After pandemic, ‘World as we know it will be just nostalgia’
‘New communism’ proponent Slavoj Zizek denies he’s an anti-Semite. Popular thinker says State of Israel has made Jews into yet another ‘race enjoying privileges over the natives’
By Alon Hadar
File: Hungarian writer and former communist dissident Gyorgy Konrad addresses the media on the state of freedom and democracy in Hungary, in Brussels, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
September 14, 2019, 8:03 pm
Jewish Hungarian author and dissident Gyorgy Konrad dies, aged 86
Holocaust survivor was key figure in movement that led to end of communism in country and was a harsh critic of current PM Viktor Orban
By AFP
The tomb of German revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, a Grade I-listed monument, is seen in Highgate Cemetery in north London on February 5, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
February 17, 2019, 1:42 am
Marx tombstone vandalized for second time in weeks
‘Architect of genocide,’ ‘terror and oppression’ and ‘mass murder’ painted on London grave of father of Communism, two weeks after vandals smashed part of marble plaque
By AFP
The Statue of Saint Wenceslas is pictured as people walk in the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague, on March 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
January 23, 2019, 8:49 pm
Czech lawmakers approve tax on church, synagogue compensation
Reparations worth $2.6 billion for religious denominations’ property seized by post-World War Two Communist regime could be taxed at 19 percent if law passes
By AFP
A leftist demonstrator holds a placard featuring a portrait of communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg during a march to the Monument for the Socialists at Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery where Luxemburg is buried, on January 13, 2019. (John Macdougall/AFP)
January 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
Gloomy German left remembers murder of Rosa Luxemburg
The Jewish-born communist activist, killed in 1919 amid social and political unrest following WWI, has become a ‘pop icon’ for a divided German opposition
By Mathieu FOULKES
Former US ambassador to Romania Alfred Moses. (Courtesy)
November 27, 2018, 8:39 am
How an American Moses helped lead Romania’s Jews to the Promised Land
A new book by the former US Ambassador to Bucharest, who in the 1970s and ’80 helped thousands of Jews flee Ceausescu’s regime for Israel, chronicles a country in transition
By Ben Zehavi
A group of Jews from Irkutsk inside the synagogue. (Eli Itkin/ Dorit Wagner/The Jewish Community of Irkutsk)
November 17, 2018, 3:51 am
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion
By Rossella Tercatin
In this September 26, 1918, photo, a US Army 37-mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. (AP Photo, File)
October 28, 2018, 6:44 pm
How World War I shaped the 20th century and beyond
The ‘war to end all wars’ turned out to be the opposite, as the post-war settlement provided fertile ground for the rise of Nazism and its horrors
By Pierre GLACHANT
Joseph Stalin in July, 1941. (Public domain)
From the WebApril 8, 2018, 11:53 am
Lost footage uncovered of Stalin’s anti-Semitic show trial
Film found in Czech Republic shows Jewish communist leader accused of supporting Zionism, forced to confess and request death penalty, The Guardian reports
Tourists stand or walk across the pavement of the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague on March 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
March 25, 2018, 9:46 am
Prague pedestrians tread unaware on Jewish gravestones
Communist-built pavement in Czech capital used slabs with Hebrew inscriptions taken from derelict cemetery; despite many complaints by Jewish community, issue was never resolved
By Jan MARCHAL
Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Baruch Ramatsky, holding the Torah scroll Ramatsky's family has kept hidden for the last 90 years, inside the synagogue of Tomsk, February 1, 2018. (Courtesy Chabad of Tomsk)
March 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed
On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker’s grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years
By Yaakov Schwartz
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