World war i

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A humanist composer who opposed the Nazis, helped Jews

So, next time you hear the rapt, silken poetry of The Lark Ascending, give a thought not only to Vaughan Williams the composer, but to the humanist who opposed the Nazis.

  A portrait of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, c. 1920.
Alfred Dreyfus

Captain Alfred Drefyus to be posthumously promoted to Brigadier-General, 90 years after death

 Arlington National Cemetery.

‘Proud American Jew’ killed during World War I gets Jewish star over 100 years after burial

 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

This week in Jewish history: Jerusalem seized, Nazi death camps begin


Turkey's Acik Radyo silenced as broadcast license revoked amid free speech concerns

The station was suspended in May and fined after a guest, speaking on April 24, referred to the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide.

 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks after a signing ceremony in Ankara, Turkey September 4, 2024.

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain - report

Hamas planned to extort Britain with the bodies, intending to claim a payment and have Britain retract Liz Truss's comments on an embassy in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Commemorating ‘Sayfo’: The untold genocide of the Aramean Christians

“In my view, we must cultivate and strengthen our community’s sense of collective identity not to seclude ourselves, but to fit in and take part in our societies,” says Khalloul, Aramean activist.

  'I am Aramean' T shirt with Aramean Eagle and Flame Symbol

1918: Returning Torah scrolls to Tel Aviv, Jaffa after WWI

The return of the Jews to their homes and religious sanctuaries after the exile forced upon them by the Turkish governor during World War I.

 Sephardi chief Rabbi Ben-Zion Uziel delivers blessings at the cornerstone ceremony  for the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot with Chaim Weizmann (seated) on June 3, 1946

Book talks Jewish woman's WWI espionage, author talks Hamas war

Shaw speaks and writes on the source of attacks against Israel and is an eloquent public diplomacy advocate for Israel.

 Sarah Aaronsohn

UK's Diane Abbott spreads fake news on X about pro-Palestinian protests, shames Braverman

Diane Abbott used a 2016 photo to claim that counter-protesters, protesting against the pro-Palestinian marches on Armistice Day, were neo-Nazis.

 Labour Party's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott reads her party's manifesto at its launch in Birmingham, Britain November 21, 2019

UK PM Sunak warns pro-Palestinian protests on Armistice Day 'provocative'

"They have already expressed that they have no intention to disrupt remembrance events," police said.

 Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, October 28, 2023

Fulfilling a century-old promise: A journey to San Vigilio in a soldier's memory

San Vigilio is as beautiful as my great-uncle described in his diary when he served as a doctor in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front.

 A view of San Vigilio village that Dr. Isaac Barasch loved so much

Good for more than a single reading

Helen Joyce uses her real-life family histories as the basis of her semi-history, semi-novel that traces the traumatic impact of 20th-century politics on a Jewish family.

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

A Jewish producer sees his family history in an Oscar-nominated Netflix film

Daniel Dreifuss' film features the history of his family escaping the Nazis, after serving Germany in World War 1, and moving to Israel.

 Illustrative image of person holding professional movie clapper board

Family seeks recognition for ancestor forcibly recruited to Ottoman army, died in service

The Turkish army forced Moshe Efroni, one of the pioneers of the first aliyah, to enlist during the First World War, else he be deported with his family back to Russia.

 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.