Jews News

Washington - An elderly New Yorker has joined the legal fray over the ownership of artwork found in a Munich apartment that was allegedly looted by the Nazis during World War II.In a complaint filed Wednesday in US district court in Washington, David Toren asks the...

Berlin - Germany on Wednesday rejected a fresh Nazi-era reparation claim by a Greek city's Jewish community but offered the group cooperation on future projects."With regard to issues of reparations, there are no new developments and all these questions are ans...

London - The world's oldest known Holocaust survivor, the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110, her family announced.Alice Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague, spent two years of World War II in Czechoslovakia's Terezin concent...

Munich - The discovery of more art looted by Nazis, almost 70 years after the end of World War II, has made George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men” timely.

Budapest - A political rally of the Hungarian far-right party Jobbik in a former synagogue sparked protests Friday by anti-fascist demonstrators who accused the group of "provocation".

Madrid - Spain is poised to pass a law that will make it easier for the descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 to obtain Spanish citizenship, the government said Thursday."We had to tell ourselves and the world that what happened was not only a m...

Munich - The art hoard of an elderly German recluse suspected to contain Nazi-looted paintings and drawings is bigger than first thought, his spokesman said Tuesday.More than 60 additional works have been discovered in the Austrian home of Cornelius Gurlitt, am...

Budapest - An American professor and prominent Holocaust scholar said Sunday he was handing back a Hungarian state award in protest at the government's "falsification of history".

The United States Department of Defense today changed its policy dealing with religious apparel and hair grooming to allow those in the military greater freedom in both areas.

Berlin - A German mediation panel heard a dispute Wednesday between a Berlin museum and the heirs of World War II-era Jewish art dealers over a vast medieval church art collection.