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Urgent lessons from Kristallnacht’s history after Amsterdam’s pogrom - opinion

Today, maintaining a stable order is crucial to preserving liberty. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call and a mandate for action.

|BySABRINA SOFFER
MACCABI TEL AVIV soccer fans arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport on Friday, after they were flown from Amsterdam on an El Al emergency rescue flight. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call and a mandate for action, says the writer.
Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

TikTok video mocking the Holocaust and Jews gets over 600,000 views

In response to the video, Brooker said on Monday that “if you read through the comments on the video there have been Jewish people finding the funny side to it. It’s not me hating a religion."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials detain a group of migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, after they crossed illegally from Mexico to the U.S, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, December 15, 2018.

Migrant children at U.S.-Mexico border marked with numbers on their arms

The children on the video are likely Honduran refugees that reached the US-Mexican border as part of the mass migration march, also termed the caravan

|ByURI BOLLAG

The Art of Advocacy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018
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What is that tattoo on your arm?

The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm will air on HBO in the US on Saturday, January 27 and will be available in Israel on February 3.

JANUARY 13, 2018
A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” ― Elie Wiesel

APRIL 24, 2017
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IN PICTURES: Tel Aviv tattoo convention draws thousands from across the globe

Body-modification has generally been stereotyped as taboo in Judaism, with most believing that it disqualifies them from being buried in a Jewish cemetery upon death.

OCTOBER 8, 2016
ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Third Annual Tel Aviv Tattoo Convention