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The Somme, 110 years on: The Jewish soldiers who fought and died

The Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest and most infamous battles in history, was intended to break the German lines and bring World War I closer to an Allied victory.

British infantry soldiers running out of their trenches at the signal to assault  the Somme, France, 1916.
THE TAIPEI Synagogue.

Taiwan's Jewish community establishes first-ever cemetery in Taipei, buries 74-year-old man

Graves of recently-buried people killed in US-Israeli airstrikes are pictured at Beheshta Zahra cemetery on the southern outskirts of Tehran on March 9, 2026.

Burial prices in Iran skyrocket by up to 50% after Tehran council approves new tariff - report

Tomb stones of Jewish soldiers fallen during the WWI on the side of the Romanian Army, witness the once large Jewish comunity of Iasi, on February 2, 2024 at the Jewish Cemetary in Iasi, eastern Romania.

Gravestones toppled in Romanian Jewish cemetery where Gantz's family is buried


A few words and a Star of David for my uncle in Italy

In the hot, dusty wheatland town of Malmesbury in South Africa where they grew up, Tony was everyone’s ticket to a good time.

 Nathan ‘Tony’ Cohen (right) in Tel Aviv, where he was treated after escaping from captivity in Tobruk.

2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized in Germany

Swastikas were found spray-painted on a wall in Hamburg’s centuries-old Altona Cemetery, German news site t-online reported Tuesday.

 Headstones of Sephardic Jews lie on the ground at the Altona cemetery in Hamburg, Germany.

Moroccan authorities restore ancient Jewish cemetery of Meknes

Authorities in Morocco are in the midst of an overhaul renovation of Jewish heritage sites in parallel with deepening ties with Israel.

 Jews pray at the Jewish cemetery of Meknes, Morocco, May 18, 2022.

Touring the Jewish catacombs of Rome

Roman Jews do not consider the Jewish catacombs in their city as archaeological sites; to them, these are the graves of their ancestors, which they regard with great reverence

 TEMPLE BOOTY: The menorah as seen as part of the Roman Triumphal panel on the Arch of Titus.

Yemenite Children Affair: Grave of child to be opened for first time

A DNA test will be conducted as part of attempts to uncover details on the Yemenite Children Affair.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish soldiers are buried under crosses around the world. A rabbi’s nonprofit is changing that.

The placement of crosses was often the result of administrative error in war times, or of soldiers obscuring their Jewish identities during a war in which Nazis summarily executed Jews.

ONE OF MORE than 170 Jewish headstones lies toppled following an attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, in 2017.

Russians attack Jewish cemetery outside of Kyiv - Ukrainian rabbi

'American and Israeli organizations claim to have donated to our community, but we haven’t seen a penny.'

 Chabbad Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman stands outside the Chabad Tehila synagoguein the renewing Jewish community near the village of Antebka near the city of Kiev in Ukraine, on February 14, 2018.

Satellite images reveal mass graves dug outside of Mariupol, Ukraine

Russian forces have been accused of making these graves shortly after capturing the city.

 A BOY walks past graves of civilians who, according to local residents in Bucha, were killed by Russian soldiers. The inscription on the cross in the middle reads: 'Unknown'.

Only Jewish cemetery in Gulf states gets new life as peace flourishes

The Bahrain institutions also serve the Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates.

 The Jewish cemetery in Manama, Bahrain

Biden appoints TV star to run heritage preservation commission

Trump officials criticized the appointment of Jones, just weeks before Paul Packer's term was supposed to end in February.

Mikheil Batiashvili, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, and Paul Packer, Chairman of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, sign a Memorandum of Understanding in Tiblisi this week