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Prof. Daniel Yamin, left, and Dr. Flavio Jean Schmidig of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
September 28, 2025, 8:03 am
Eyes don’t lie: Groundbreaking study tracks eye movements to measure memory
Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s non-verbal memory-testing protocol allows assessment in infants, brain injury victims, severe Alzheimer’s patients
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative image of a sleeping woman. (AndreyPopov; iStock by Getty Images)
June 9, 2023, 9:27 am
Stimulating the brain during sleep, Tel Aviv team says it’s found key to better memory
Volunteers in joint study with UCLA did 10% better on recall tests, demonstrating how communication between hippocampus and cerebral cortex helps consolidate memories while asleep
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image: a child with autism mastering the skill of straying up blocks. Adaptable skills can prove challenging for some people with autism. (KatarzynaBialasiewicz via iStock by Getty Images)
August 4, 2022, 10:03 am
Study shows short refresher may help people with ASD learn faster than rote practice
Tel Aviv University-led research suggests that adaptable skills, often hard to master for people with autism, may be achieved using speedy ‘memory flashes’
By Nathan Jeffay
LeVar Burton in the 1977 television miniseries 'Roots,' and Meryl Streep in 1978's 'Holocaust' miniseries (ABC and NBC, respectively)
December 27, 2017, 10:59 pm
When slavery and the Holocaust visited American living rooms
Aired on television within months of each other, 40 years ago ‘Roots’ and ‘Holocaust’ broke cultural taboos by depicting some of history’s worst atrocities
By Matt Lebovic
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah — and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
Former Olympic ice dancer Tatiana Navka performed with actor Andrei Burkovsky in a televised Holocaust-themed ice dance in Moscow, November 26, 2016. (Photo: YouTube Screen Capture)
November 29, 2016, 1:22 pm
‘Auschwitz on Ice’ is perfectly fine in Russia, where the Holocaust is not about the Jews
Only after the fall of the Iron Curtain were former Soviet Union countries able to access information about a ‘Jewish’ genocide during the ‘Great Patriotic War.’ Today, critics claim history is again being rewritten
By Matt Lebovic
Samuel Kassow with his daughter Serena Kassow on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)
August 5, 2016, 6:06 am
Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood
New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime
By Matt Lebovic
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
The Memorial of Names designed by Daniel Libeskind for Amsterdam (courtesy)
May 15, 2016, 11:41 am
Amsterdam finally to move forward on Holocaust memorial
Dutch Auschwitz Committee obtains site for new monument in the heart of the former Jewish district
By Matt Lebovic
The post-WWII Nuremberg Trials in Germany, during which some of the Third Reich's top war criminals were tried and sentenced by the Allies. Among the Nazis seated in the docket is Hermann Goering (front left), head of Germany's air force and a leading figure in the Reich (Wikimedia Commons)
May 5, 2016, 3:20 am
Why the Nazi hunters’ epic quest is coming to an unheralded end
As Germany closes the book on Shoah-related trials, author Andrew Nagorski probes a seven-decade saga in his new book, ‘The Nazi Hunters’
By Matt Lebovic
Yom HaShoah Commemoration in Boston on May 1, 2016, at the New England Holocaust Memorial on the city's Freedom Trail after Mourner's Kaddish (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
May 2, 2016, 11:01 am
Boston teacher feted for averting Holocaust denial in classroom
Citywide commemoration addresses remembrance in a post-survivor world and youth disbelief in the Nazi genocide
By Matt Lebovic
Homer Simpson (Screenshot)
February 7, 2016, 4:49 pm
D’oh! How Homer Simpson helps researchers understand memory
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients who ‘lose’ their memories could find hope in Tel Aviv prof’s research
By David Shamah
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