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USS Gato off Mare Island Navy Yard, November 29, 1944

Was the wreckage found off Argentina a Nazi submarine?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Françoise S. Ouzan

'True to My God and Country': Groundbreaking book on US Jews fighting in WWII

By RABBI DR. BARRY DOV SCHWARTZ

Harold Baumgarten

American army experiences in WWII in context of modern antisemitism

By Françoise Ouzan

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

To understand Hamas, reflect on the Japanese in World War II

By YECHIEL M. LEITER

Anthony Hopkins plays Nicky Winston in 'One Life.'

Anthony Hopkins gives a fine performance in James Hawes’s One Life

By HANNAH BROWN

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally at the Fox Theatre in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 5, 2024.

Robert F. Kennedy: 'Hamas to blame for Gaza war, any country would act like Israel'

By REUTERS

Cast members pose for a family photo during a premiere for the Apple TV+ series "Masters of the Air" in Los Angeles, California, U.S. January 10, 2024.

The real Jewish history of 'Rosie’ Rosenthal in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

'THE MAP' by Ilya Gefter

Illya Gefter presents ‘The Front,’ works that raise historical questions

By NERIA BARR

JULIETTE BINOCHE as Coco Chanel in 'The New Look'.

Suspenseful cop show, a soothing soap, and 'Table for Eight'

By HANNAH BROWN

Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

'Cold Crematorium': An unusual account of the Holocaust

By NEAL GENDLER

JOHANNES HEGEMANN and Liv Lisa Fries in ‘From Hilde, With Love.’

A shy young woman fights the Nazis in ‘From Hilde, With Love’

By HANNAH BROWN

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on Saturday night.

What does 'total victory' look like for Netanyahu in the war with Hamas?

By NEVILLE TELLER

NACHUM SLUTZKER (first row on the right) as the Jewish community leader, and Hamutal Ansky, as his wife in a scene from the film.

Film encapsulates how humans can become monsters

By NERIA BARR

A visitor leans to look at Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897" at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022.

Madrid museum welcomes ruling it can keep painting looted by Nazis

By REUTERS

THE 12TH century Saint-Vincent Cathedral.

A hidden Holocaust story from Viviers, France

By BARBARA ANGELAKIS

Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo looks at a statue symbolising "comfort women" at the Seoul Comfort Women Memorial in Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 2021

South Korea court orders Japan to compensate 'comfort women'

By REUTERS

A police van sits outside the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum in Shanghai, China November 17, 2023

Shanghai's Jewish refugee history takes center stage in new oratorio

By REUTERS

Winston Churchill in Tel Aviv, 1921, from the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel

Israel's leaders should learn from Churchill - opinion

By NAVEH DROMI